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in 1968. She is the oldest of four children. As a child she loved drawing, and often paired her pictures with stories. Her mother was a homemaker, and
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in 2003. Reviewing
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took her son Kelly to a public library in the city of San
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Morales bought a set of paints and brushes and enrolled in an extension class at UC Berkeley on writing for children where she met a group of other aspiring authors and illustrators. Morales's first
English-language picture book project was
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illustrations to show something she did not know. Morales felt so inspired by those vivid colors and illustrations from the books that she had been reading to her son, she wondered whether she could make picture books like those.
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While working as a swimming coach in Mexico, Morales met her husband, Tim, an
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Georgia in Hawai'i: When
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Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, Little Night,
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Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award (2004) for
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Latino Literary Award for Best Children's Book (2004) for
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Just in Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book
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Mexican-American children's book author and illustrator.
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