Resumen de “Le da la mano y le sonríe”: a plática on creating queer Chicanx children’s literature

Isabel Millán, Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

• In this conversation between Karleen Pendleton Jiménez and Isabel Millán, they reflect on their experiences as authors and their relationship spanning over a decade. As queer Chicanx authors and scholars, they share many of the same academic spaces and communities, such as MALCS and NACCS1 . In 2022, Millán published her first children’s picture book (“Chabelita’s Heart/El corazón de Chabelita”), whereas Pendleton Jiménez has been creating children’s literature since 19992 . Her latest book for children is a middle-grade chapter book published in 2021 (“The Street Belongs to Us”). In what follows, they offer us a curated collection of their personal reflections and dialogues regarding their lives, their children’s books, and their visions for the future.