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Susan Guevara

Susan Marie Guevara is an American author and illustrator of children's books. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Susan received a BFA in illustration from Academy of Art College in San Francisco. She took time off between her first and second years and moved to Belgium where she was able to study with Remy Van Sluys and take painting and drawing classes at Royal Academy of Fine Art. She was the first recipient of the Pura Belpré Medal Award in 1996 for Gary Soto's Chat's Kitchen. She won again in 2002 for Gary Soto's Charo and the Party Animals, and was a recipient of a Pura Belpré Honor Award for Susan Elya Middleton's Little Roja Riding Hood.

Career
Guevara has illustrated over 20 books since 1990. Of her illustrations, she has stated that she does not use a set style. She adapts her work to the setting and the characters of the work that she is illustrating. Her first illustrated picture book was Emmett’s Snowball by Ned Miller, which was published in 1990. Her work in this book received mixed reviews. Later works have received more positive reviews that praise her depiction of Latin Culture as well as her use of color and style that fits a book's text.

During the 2006 American Libraries Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, Guevara began a mural at the Children’s Resource Center Library, which had been damaged during Hurricane Katrina. This mural featured characters from the book Chato and the Party Animals and was entitled "Tambien de dolor se canta cuando llorar no se puede" or "Sorrow also sings when it runs too deep to cry." This mural was finished in November 2011.

== Awards == 2015, Pura Belpré Honor award for Illustration for Little Roja Riding Hood

2014, New York Public Library acknowledgment for one of the 100 Best Books of the Last 100 Years for Chato's Kitchen

2005, New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year

2004, Sigurd Olson Children’s book award, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Northland College, WI

2002, Pura BelPré Medal Award for Chato and the Party Animals

2001, American Library Association Notable Book

2000, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Children’s Literature Award

1995, Book Links “A Few Good Books of the Year”

1995, Child Study Children’s Book Committee Book of the Year

1995, California Young Reader Nominee

1995, American Library Association Notable Book

1996, Pura BelPré Medal Award for Chato's Kitchen

1996, Tomás Rivera Award

1995, Americas Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature Honorable Mention

1995, Certificate of Excellence Parenting Magazine Award

1995, Parents’ Choice Honor Award

As Illustrator

 * 1990, Emmett’s Snowball by Ned Miller
 * 1991, The Class with the Summer Birthdays by Dian Curtis Reagan
 * 1992, I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street by Kathryn Lasky
 * 1993, The Boardwalk Princess by Arthur Levine
 * 1995, The King’s Commissioners by Aileen Friedman
 * 1995, Chato’s Kitchen by Gary Soto
 * 1996, Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy retold by Virginia Haviland
 * 2000, My Daughter, My Son, The Eagle, The Dove by Ana Castillo
 * 2000, Chato and the Party Animals by Gary Soto
 * 2000, Not One Damsel in Distress—World Folktales for Strong Girls by Jane Yolen
 * 2002, Tiger, Tiger by Dee Lillegard
 * 2003, Isabel’s House of Butterflies by Tony Johnston
 * 2005, Chato Goes Cruisin’ by Gary Soto
 * 2006, Tales Our Abuelitas Told by Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy
 * 2006, The Lady in the Blue Cloak by Eric Kimmel
 * 2007, Numero Uno by Arthur and Alex Dorros
 * 2008, Voice From Afar by Tony Johnston
 * 2011, The Wild Women of the Wild West by Jonah Winter
 * 2014, Little Roja Riding Hood by Susan Elya Middleton
 * 2019, Journey Toward Hope by Coert Voorhees and Victor J. Hinojosa