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Festival Artist/Author/Performer

Donna Barba Higuera

Author Donna Barber Higuera

Donna Barba Higuera creció evitando los molestos polvos de los campos de petróleo del centro de California. Ha pasado toda su vida mezclando fábulas con sus experiencias para crear historias que llenan su imaginación. Ahora las combina escribiendo libros para niños y jóvenes. Finalmente, Donna cambió el polvo del centro de California por las nieblas del noreste del Pacífico. Ella vive allí con su esposo, cuatro hijos, tres perros y dos ranas.


Donna grew up in central California surrounded by agricultural and oil fields. As a child, rather than dealing with the regular dust devils, she preferred spending recess squirreled away in the janitor’s closet with a good book. Her favorite hobbies were calling dial-a-story over and over again, and sneaking into a restricted cemetery to weave her own spooky tales using the crumbling headstones as inspiration. Donna's Middle Grade and Picture Books are about kids who find themselves in odd or scary situations.​ From language to cultural differences in being biracial life can become…complicated. So like Donna, characters tackle more than just the bizarre things that happen to them in their lives. Donna likes to write about all things funny, but also sad, and creepy, and magical. If you like those things, she hopes you will read her books! Donna lives in Washington State with her family, three dogs and two frogs.


Book cover for Lupe Wong Won't Dance
Lupe Wong Won't Dance
Higuera, Donna Barba


Book cover for The Last Cuentista
The Last Cuentista
Higuera, Donna Barba


Book cover for Lupe Wong no baila
Lupe Wong no baila
Higuera, Donna Barba

¡Ganadora del Pura Belpré Honor! Lupe Wong quiere ser la primera mujer lanzadora en las Grandes Ligas. Ella necesita una "A" en todas las clases para conocer a su lanzador favorito, Fu Li Hernández, un mexi-chino como ella. Todo va bien hasta que se entera de que tendrá que bailar en la clase de gimnasia para obtener una A.


Book cover for El Cucuy is Scared, Too!
El Cucuy is Scared, Too!
Higuera, Donna Barba

 



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