"Paola Santiago is a whip-smart Latina who dares to explore the shadows between folklore and middle-school friendship

and the importance of empathy

Follow this high-stakes adventure as the scales tip from one dog with all the sausages and nine dogs with none to nine dogs with all the sausages and one dog with none

"―Kirkus Reviews

A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Bodies "Paola Santiago is a whip-smartA celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keatss obvious talent, his father worried that Ezras dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one. But Ezra was determined. By high school he was winning prizes and scholarships. Later, jobs