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Pedro Martín.

Writer & illustrator · United States

Pedro Martín: Newbery-Honor American cartoonist behind Mexikid — autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a 1970s Mexican-American family road trip, for ages 9–13.

Pedro Martín is an American cartoonist born in Watsonville, California, best known for Mexikid (2023), a Newbery Honor-winning autobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about a 1970s Mexican-American family road trip from California to Mexico to bring their grandfather home. Martín's style is bright, character-driven and emotionally precise, with strong skill at depicting family dynamics and culturally specific experience. A reliable contemporary middle-grade graphic-novel author for ages 9–13, particularly important to inclusive-shelf and Mexican-American reading curation.