What you carry with you when you leave everything behind.

When Yuyi Morales came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son, she left nearly everything she owned. But she didn’t come empty-handed. She brought her resilience, her stories, her hopes, and her history.

Dreamers is the picture book memoir she made from that experience—a celebration of what migrants carry with them, and of finding your way in an unfamiliar world. It is a story about family, about belonging, and about the gifts that travel with us wherever we go.

Morales’s illustrations are rich with symbolism and detail, and the book includes a brief autobiographical essay, a list of books that inspired her, and a description of the images and mementos woven into the artwork.

A beautiful and timely book—for children and for the adults who read alongside them.

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