We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from from 2019 Newbery Medal winner Meg Medina! Meg writes to us about some very unexpected visitors she once received—and shares pictures, too!
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Meg Medina is a Newbery and Pura Belpré award-winning author of picture books, middle grade, and YA fiction. She is the author of Merci Suárez Changes Gears, a New York Times bestseller which won the 2019 John Newbery Medal and the 2018 Charlotte Huck Honor Award. Her other books include: Burn Baby Burn, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. Her picture books include Mango, Abuela and Me, and Tía Isa Wants a Car.
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Photograph of Meg Medina by Petite Shards Productions.