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Joe Cepeda

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Joe Cepeda grew up in East Los Angeles, California. At first, he studied to be an engineer. He went back to college later to study art. He has done illustrations for magazines as well as for children's books. Joe Cepeda thinks that children who want to be artists or illustrators should read a lot and study math.

Joe Cepeda is the illustrator of many awarding-winning picture books including Peeny Butter Fudge by Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison, What a Truly Cool World by Julius Lester, a Family Life Magazine Top 10 Best Books of the Year, a Family Fun Critic's Choice, and BCCB Blue Ribbon Book, Mice and Beans by Pam MuÑoz Ryan, and Gracias the Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley which was an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. Mr Cepeda received his BFA in illustration from California State University, Long Beach. Mr. Cepeda received the Recognition of Merit Award for 2000 from The George G. Stone Center for Children's Books. His illustrations have appeared in publications such as The Los Angeles Times; Buzz, Inc. Magazine; and Latina Magazine.

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Joe Cepeda

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Books from Joe Cepeda

I, Freddy

Nappy Hair

Mice and Beans

Freddy In Peril

Peeny Butter Fudge

Freddy To The Rescue

The Haunting of Freddy

We Were Tired of Living in a House

Watch Me: A Story of Immigration and Inspiration

Two Bunny Buddies

Cub's Big World

Juan Bobo Goes to Work: A Puerto Rican Folk Tale

From North to South/Del Norte al Sur

The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman

Hey, Hey, Hay!: A Tale of Bales and the Machines That Make Them

The Tortoise or the Hare

Koi and the Kola Nuts: A Tale from Liberia

I Hop

I See

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