Claudia Rueda

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Claudia Rueda is a Colombian picture book author and illustrator and the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen award nominee. She is the illustrator of The New York Times Best Seller Here Comes The Easter Cat and the author of the Oppenheim Platinum Award My Little Polar Bear among others. Her picture books have been published throughout North America, Europe and Asia and have been translated into more than ten different languages.

Published books[]

As writer and illustrator: "Bunny Slopes" (Chronicle Books, 2016) "Is it big or is it little?" (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2013) "Huff & Puff" (Abrams, 2012) "No" (Groundwood, 2010), "My Little Polar Bear" (Scholastic, 2009), "Let's Play in the Forest" (Scholastic, 2006),

As Illustrator: Here Comes Teacher Cat (Dial Penguin, 2017) Here Comes Valentine Cat (Dial Penguin, 2015) Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat (Dial Penguin, 2015) Here Comes The Easter Cat (Dial Penguin, 2014) Here Comes Santa Cat (Dial Penguin, 2014) "Nacho and Lolita" (Scholastic, 2005)

Awards[]

2011 CCBC choice (Univ. Wisconsin), 2009 Oppenheim Platinum Award, 2007 National Parenting Publications Gold Award, 2006 CHILD Magazine Best Children’s Books, Colombian IBBY Honor List

Biographical and critical sources[]

Periodicals

• Booklist, October 1, 2005, Jennifer Mattson
• Review of Nacho and Lolita, p. 66; November 15, 2006, Hazel Rochman
• Review of Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf Is Not Around, p. 51.
• Críticas, November 1, 2003, Ann Welton
• Review of Mientras se enfría el pastel; October 1, 2006, Veronica Covington,
• Kirkus Reviews, October 1, 2005, review of Nacho and Lolita, p. 1088; October 1, 2006
• Review of Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf Is Not Around, p. 1023.
• Publishers Weekly, August 22, 2005, review of Nacho and Lolita, p. 63.
• School Library Journal, October 2005, Rosalyn Pierini, review of Nacho and Lolita, p. 144; October 2006, Linda *Zeilstra Sawyer, review of Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf Is Not Around, p. 1125.

Interviews[]

Taller Espantapajaros. [1]

Online Claudia Rueda Home Page, [2] (October 17, 2007).* Open Library. [3] Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango [4]

References[]

• http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201011/2184647921.html
• http://www.lesley.edu/gsass/creative_writing/student_chronicles.html