Jua­na Mar­tinez-Neal is the Peru­vian born daugh­ter and grand­daugh­ter of painters. Her debut as an author-illus­tra­tor Alma and How She Got Her Name, was award­ed a Calde­cott Hon­or and was also pub­lished in a Span­ish edi­tion as Alma y cómo obtu­vo su nom­bre. Her sec­ond author-illus­tra­tor book, Zoni­a’s Rain For­est, is avail­able in a Span­ish edi­tion La sel­va de Zonia. Jua­na has also illus­trat­ed numer­ous pic­ture books includ­ing La Prince­sa and the Pea by Susan Mid­dle­ton Elya, for which she won the Pura Bel­pré Illus­tra­tor Award, and Fry Bread: A Native Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly Sto­ry by Kevin Noble Mail­lard, which won The Robert F. Sib­ert Medal.