Erika Rodriguez Medina
Hello, I’m Erika Rodriguez Medina. I’m a Mexican illustrator and book publicist living in Canada. My favorite things in illustrations are expressive characters, scribbly lines and grainy textures. There is a special place in my heart for folklore, spooky stories, big house plants and things you’d find at a grandma’s house. I’m actually two mapaches in a trench coat.
Awards / Honors
- 2024 Chicago Public Library’s Best Books of 2024 – Adela’s Mariachi Band and Los mariachis de Adela
- 2024 Shelf Awareness Starred Review – Adela’s Mariachi Band
- 2024 Junior Library Guild Gold Selection – Los mariachis de Adela
- 2024 Kirkus Starred Review – Fighting Words
- 2023 Bank Street College’s Best Books of the Year- The Tunnel
- 2022 Blue Spruce Award Nominee, Forest of Reading – 48 Grasshopper Estates
- 2022 Bank Street Books List- There Goes Patti McGee!
- 2021 Junior Library Guild Selection- There Goes Patti McGee!