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Pedro Martin
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Kansas City, MO, USA

Pedro Martin

Author/Illustrator
Website
Kansas City, MO, USA

The son of an immigrant sharecropper, Pedro spent his childhood in the strawberry fields of the Monterey Bay Area. He recollects those years in his online series Mexikid Stories. In 2023, he debuted Mexikid A Graphic Memoir, which garnered him the Newbery Honor Award, an Eisner Award, a Harvey Award as well as the Pura Belpré Author and Illustrator awards.


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This shouldn't have worked: How I stumbled into middle-grade fame
Friday, July 17, 2:25 – 2:45 pm

Pedro takes you through all the very unlikely events and completely avoidable mistakes that led him to writing and illustrating his very first graphic memoir, the award winning Mexikid.

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