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by Tess Thomas (Author), Kamwei Fong (Illustrator), Rita Elena Urquijo-Ruiz (Translator)
NOW IN SPANISH! AHORA EN ESPAÑOL!
Un cuento sobre una cola y un gato con sentimientos MUY grandes.
Shibu, el gato, tiene muchos sentimientos y afortunadamente su cola esponjosa le ayuda a expresarlos todos! Pero un día, Shibu se dio cuenta de que todos los demás gatos escondían sus sentimientos (y sus colas). Quizás sería mejor tratar de ser como ellos? Esta historia encantadora surge de dos debuts extraordinarios sobre cómo navegar los altibajos de la vida y todas las grandes emociones.
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A tale about a tail, and a cat with some VERY big feelings.
Shibu the cat has a lot of feelings and thankfully his fluffy tail helps him express them all! But one day, Shibu realizes that all the other cats are keeping their feelings (and their tails) tucked away. Maybe it would be better to try and fit in? From two extraordinary debuts comes a delightful story on navigating life's highs, lows, and all the big emotions in between.
Author Biography
Tess Thomas is a writer living in Hoboken, NJ. She started her storytelling career at the age of 4 when she would dictate tales about her imaginary friends, Sami the cat and Doodie the dog, and send them to her grandparents. Tess loves french fries, her kids, and her husband (sometimes in that order).
Kamwei Fong is a Malaysian artist whose series The Furry Thing first began in 2009 and has earned international acclaim, with exhibitions at Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris, Art Expo Malaysia, and solo shows in Malaysia, France, Taiwan, South Korea, U.S., and Japan.
Dr. Rita Elena Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana fronteriza queer educator, writer, activist, and award-winning translator of picture and YA who was born in Sonora, Mexico and raised in southern California. She has been a professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas since 2004 where she teaches Mexican, Chicana/o/e/x, and Latina/o/e/x literatures, cultures, gender, sexuality, theater, and performance studies.
