Zeke Peña, author portrait
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Zeke Peña

Zeke Peña is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX, the Sun City. Sundust, his author-illustrator debut, is a love poem to desert culture and people. Zeke received the Ezra Jack Keats and the Pura Belpré Illustration Honors for My Papi Has a Motorcycle and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for his illustrations in Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He also illustrated the New York Times bestseller Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in NW Arkansas.
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Sundust
Polvo solar (Sundust Spanish Edition)
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Mi papi tiene una moto

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Sundust
Polvo solar (Sundust Spanish Edition)
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
Mi papi tiene una moto

Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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