Mexikid Dreams with Pedro Martín
Sat, Oct 03
|Decatur Square Stage
Newbery-honored author and illustrator Pedro Martín joins us to celebrate his new book!
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM EDT
Decatur Square Stage, 1 W Ct Square, Decatur, GA 30030, USA
About
Pedro Martín’s Mexikid won a Newbery Honor—and now the author / illustrator returns with his new book, Mexikid Dreams, where hilarious family hijinks, immigration patrols, and musical daydreams shape a year of growth and change for a Mexican American boy and his family. Pedro will do a live drawing demonstration—this is a great session for young artists!
Purchase your book from Little Shop of Stories and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the festival.
This event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required, and seating is first come, first served.
Signing information:
Signing time: 1:00 PM
Signing location: Core Dance Studios, 133 Sycamore St.
About the Author
Pedro Martín is the Newbery Honor Award–winning and Pura Belpré Award–winning creator of the graphic memoir Mexikid, based on his online comic series of the same name. Mexikid has landed on many end-of-the-year best-of lists, including The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Booklist. He joins us in Decatur with the graphic memoir companion, Mexikid Dreams: A Graphic Memoir. Pedro is a former Hallmark artist who lives with his wife in Kansas City.
About the Moderator
Ward Jenkins is a children's book illustrator and storyboard artist from the Atlanta, Georgia area. He's illustrated picture books for Simon & Schuster (Chicks Run Wild and How to Train with a T.Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals) and Chronicle Books (New York, Baby! and San Francisco, Baby!). Other books he's illustrated are Salam Alaikum: A Message of Peace and Rocket Shoes. He also illustrated Tales of the Dairy Godmother: Chuck’s Ice Cream Wish, which won the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture's prestigious Book Of The Year for 2021.
In between illustrating books, he's also a storyboard artist for such shows as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Snoopy In Space, Camp Snoopy, and Ada Twist, Scientist. Ward's latest endeavor has been illustrating Stuart Gibbs's Moon Base Alpha graphic novel series, with the first two installments out now: Space Case: The Graphic Novel and Spaced Out: The Graphic Novel. Ward lives with his wife Andrea, who's a writer and photographer, and they have two kids: Ava and Ezra (both young adults and nascent artists). He hasn't shaved his beard since 2010.