Award-winning author Matt de la Peña talks about the grandmothers who inspired “Last Stop on Market Street,” including his own grandmother, illustrator Christian Robinson’s grandmother, his own mother, and his mother-in-law (both now grandmothers to his children).
In the 1930s, progressive educators from Bank Street encouraged a new kind of picture book for children that focused on a child’s real life and surroundings.
Grace Lin’s first picture book, The Ugly Vegetables, was based on her mother’s garden and her own childhood experience as the only Asian girl in her class.
