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Category
Craft / Illustration
Annual ID
OS22_PT057M
About the Work
In 2019, the United States detained more than 300,000 children. Stories collected by human rights advocates revealed shocking conditions at the border. Children reported hunger, cold and sickness while being forced to sleep on concrete floors without access to bathing or clean clothes for days upon weeks.
Our brief was simple—make the voices of the children heard. Despite the fact that hundreds of sworn declarations from children had been filed in federal court, they might as well have been invisible to the American public. Our idea was to turn these black-and-white legal declarations into a vibrant children’s book.
With artwork from 17 Latinx illustrators, including Caldecott medal winner Yuyi Morales and Pura Belpré Award winner Raúl the Third, Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz tells the stories of real children detained at the border. Containing a foreword by Michael Garcia Bochenek of Human Rights Watch, a reader’s guide plus simple ways to help, this bilingual book (English on one side, Spanish on the other, with both languages meeting in the middle) directly benefits children in migration as 100% of royalties are donated to Project Amplify, a nonprofit dedicated to the establishment of legal protections for children in government care.
The book received praise from literary critics, including coveted “starred reviews” from the industry’s two most influential publications in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. The book was also awarded the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for excellence in children’s nonfiction writing and was named to several end-of-year lists including the New York Public Library’s "Best Books for Kids of 2021." Most importantly, the book was given the Gold Standard by the Junior Library Guild, which informs the purchases of more than 24,000 school and public librarians nationwide where it’s been adopted as curriculum and taught in schools, inspiring the next generation of leaders.
Our brief was simple—make the voices of the children heard. Despite the fact that hundreds of sworn declarations from children had been filed in federal court, they might as well have been invisible to the American public. Our idea was to turn these black-and-white legal declarations into a vibrant children’s book.
With artwork from 17 Latinx illustrators, including Caldecott medal winner Yuyi Morales and Pura Belpré Award winner Raúl the Third, Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz tells the stories of real children detained at the border. Containing a foreword by Michael Garcia Bochenek of Human Rights Watch, a reader’s guide plus simple ways to help, this bilingual book (English on one side, Spanish on the other, with both languages meeting in the middle) directly benefits children in migration as 100% of royalties are donated to Project Amplify, a nonprofit dedicated to the establishment of legal protections for children in government care.
The book received praise from literary critics, including coveted “starred reviews” from the industry’s two most influential publications in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. The book was also awarded the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for excellence in children’s nonfiction writing and was named to several end-of-year lists including the New York Public Library’s "Best Books for Kids of 2021." Most importantly, the book was given the Gold Standard by the Junior Library Guild, which informs the purchases of more than 24,000 school and public librarians nationwide where it’s been adopted as curriculum and taught in schools, inspiring the next generation of leaders.
2022 Awards
Total Points: 3
Merit
Credits
Agency
GSD&M / Austin
Publisher
Workman Publishing / New York
Art Director
Donnine Canamar
Chief Creative Officer
Jay Russell
Creative Director
Brandon Curl
Dale Austin
Tori Reneker
Editor
Wenjing Zhang
Group Creative Director
Rafael Serrano
Motion Designer
Skylar Moran
Senior Print Producer
Helena Abbing
Bilingual QA Specialist
Diana Farias
Marcela Masso
Business Affairs Director
Lindsay Wakabayashi
CEO
Duff Stewart
Co-Founder/Executive Producer
Jim Evans
Creative Consultant
Natalie Lum Freedman
Digital Producer
Jackie Purdy-Andrews
Director of Engineering
Kim Faulkner
Director, Brand & Creative
Jr Link
Head of Digital Integration & Innovation
Luis Aguiluz
Head of Experience Design
Maria D’Amato
Lead Developer
Kim Faulkner
President
Marianne Malina
Program Supervisor
Christie Lyons
SVP, Director of Production
Jack Epsteen
VP, Community Relations
David Rockwood
VP, Director of Studio Services
Anne Rix Sifuentez
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