Chooch Ayudó

"Chooch Helped is a universal story of an older sibling learning to make space for a new child, told with grace by Andrea L. Rogers and stunning art from Rebecca Lee Kunz showing one Cherokee family practicing their cultural traditions."--From the publisher.

Andrea L. Rogers es ciudadana de la Nación Cherokee. Se crio en Tulsa, Oklahoma y recibió una Maestría en Bellas Artes (MFA) del Institute of American Indian Arts en Santa Fe, New Mexico. Su álbum ilustrado, Chooch ayudó, ganó la Medalla Caldecott. Su colección Man Made Monsters recibió seis reseñas estelares y ganó el premio Walter Dean Myers de ficción juvenil y el premio American Indian Youth Literature. Su novela The Art Thieves fue nombrada la mejor del año por BCCB y Shelf Awareness. 
Andrea L. Rogers is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated with an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Her picture book, Chooch Helped, was awarded the Caldecott Medal. Andrea's collection of horror stories, Man Made Monsters, received six starred reviews and won the Walter Dean Myers Award for Young Adult fiction. Her novel The Art Thieves was named best of the year by BCCB and Shelf Awareness.
Author residence: Fayetteville, AR
Rebecca Lee Kunz se crio en Oklahoma y recibió una licenciatura (BFA) en pintura del College of Santa Fe. Rebecca es una artista y dueña del Tree of Life Studio en Santa Fe, New Mexico, donde administra su negocio y cría sus tres hijas. Ciudadana de la Nación Cherokee, su trabajo se basa en la iconografía tribal y se inspira en el simbolismo mítico y arquetípico. Su primer álbum ilustrado, Chooch ayudó, ganó la Medalla Caldecott.
Rebecca Lee Kunz grew up in Oklahoma and went on to earn a BFA in painting from the College of Santa Fe. Rebecca is an artist and the owner of Tree of Life Studio in Santa Fe, NM, where she runs her business and raises three daughters. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, her work draws upon traditional iconography and is greatly inspired by mythic and archetypal symbolism. Her debut picture book, Chooch Helped, was awarded the Caldecott Medal.
Illustrator residence: Santa Fe, NM
Joseph M. Pierce es uno de los investigadores en residencia por el año 2024-25 en el Museo de Arte Moderno (MoMA). Es profesor asociado en el Departamento de lenguas y literatura hispánicas además de servir como director inaugural de la iniciativa para los estudios indígenas y nativo americanos en Stony Brook University. Es autor de Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 y Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. Junto con S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri) es co-curador de la serie de performance Knowledge of Wounds. Es ciudadano de la nación cherokee.
Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is Associate Professor and Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 and Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair. With S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri) he is co-curator of Knowledge of Wounds, and for 2024-25 he is a scholar in residence at MoMA.