Books published by Reflection Press

Selected for the American Library Association's 2019 Rainbow List. A reclamation of the Mexican serenata tradition, follow the story of a young boy who asks his father if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy. Como reapropiación de la serenata Mexicana, Cuando Amamos Cantamos cuenta la historia de un niño que le pide a su padre que canten una canción para un niño que ama a otro niño. When We Love Someone We Sing to Them reframes a treasured cultural tradition to include LGBTQ experience. In this book, we learn about the Mexican tradition of singing to family and loved ones through one boy who naturally assumes the tradition includes him and his experience.Watch a tradition expand as limitations are lifted to include everyone, all the way to remembering Xochipilli, the Mesoamerican deity of creativity, song, and dance.A perfect book to bring tradition and inclusion into the conversation and support our LGBTQ young ones in knowing that they belong and always have, while providing pride in both our Mexican heritage and our LGBTQ culture and history as families.A bilingual story with illustrations (English/Spanish)About the Illustrator: Maya Gonzalez is an award-winning children's book illustrator and author. She has illustrated more than 30 children's books many of which she also wrote. Her books have been recognized by the Pura Belpré award, Américas Book Award, and International Latino Book Awards. She is the co-founder of Reflection Press. As part of the Press' mission to uplift new voices, she served as mentor for the writing of this book.

Voice begins deep within. Along the back corridors and secret passageways. Voice begins at our silent center, the core of our being where everything exists at once. Vibrating.Within each of us is a path from inside to outside. Look for it.Within each of us is a silence of truth longing to be expressed. Feel for it. Within each of us is a voice ready to spiral OUT into an enormous sky. Unfurl it.Dropping into the spaces that live within, Unfurling invites us into the dance between silence and story until we can let go into our own expression.We need your Voice.We need your RevolutionThe final book in the anthology trilogy from The Heart Of It Collection. Award-winning children's book artist and author Maya Christina Gonzalez's experimental illustrations and simple poetic narrative highlight the poems, stories, and art of 18 new and emerging diverse children's book ArtistAuthors. Love, creativity and power fill the pages! Always pushing the limits of how children's books can be used, Unfurling explores the possibility of what stories lay within the minds of our children and how to engage their creative agency through imagery.Featured ArtistAuthors:Ovid Amorson, Crystal Azul Barr, Adrianne Beth Galvez, Erika González, Priya Gopal, Jill Guerra, Kelly Jimenez, Rosalind Lord, Judith Nasse, Shanimarie Ogilvie, Elana Ponet, Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, Marianna Singwi-Ferrono, Karen Su, Chantra Tham, Laura Yohualtlahuiz, alida cardós whaley, Robyn Wolfe

Sometimes you just need to color. Here's a coloring book to love and lift yourself up; a place to relax and open up. Using your hands with your heart makes you strong. And strength is what we need for the times ahead. When the going gets tough, the creative start making art!Inspired by both playful and radical 60's poster styles, activist/artist Maya Gonzalez offers 29 black and white images for you to play with and color. Strong women, femmes, and children, inspiring words, as well as nature imagery open the first in the Coloring the Revolution series.Remember the 3 Rules! #1 EVERYONE is an Artist. #2 There is never a right or wrong way to make art. #3 Art is ALWAYS an act of courage.Appropriate for most media. 70# paper with images printed on one side allow for watercolors, markers and other materials that bleed. Leave them in the book or rip them out and color your world with them.

"I cry for all of us who bear the burden of these times."Aaaaaaaaaaaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!One day at the river changed everything.So begins the terror from the pale ones who remake the lands and the people to suit their pale vision.But the ghost woman and her one true love conjure a plan.Will La Llorona's heart be strong enough to fulfill it?More importantly, when the time comes….will the people be ready?In times filled with terror and torment, one woman's haunting grief rises from beyond to become the people's howl in the dark. Sometimes a heartache is so great, it belongs to everyone. Sometimes a healing is so powerful it holds within it the spark to change everything….if we're ready.A queer reclamation of the classic Mexican ghost story, La Llorona, that spans the ages and the Americas (MesoAmerica 1500 to present day San Francisco) to reunite the people with their ghosts and mend what was torn apart.In her debut YA novella, award-winning children's book artist and author Maya Gonzalez takes readers on an emotional and layered journey that weaves history with love, spirit with flesh, and merges ancient myths with current political times. Powerful themes of love, pre-colonial queer identity, sacred feminine, loss and endurance course through the pages as the story gathers and flows and gathers again to support healing, negotiate deep ancestral trauma and ultimately, transformation. In a style akin to poetic prose with a potent cathartic undercurrent that lies shimmering just beneath the surface, Ma Llorona's reach doesn't end at the page. Like a river, she will flow into your dreams, call up your ghosts and have you howling in the night."They called you La LloronaAnd told terrible talesBut I know who you wereI know the truthYou are the womanAs big as all the starsYou are the womanAs big as all the land and seaThe river mirrors your faceThe wind carries your wailThe grass and cool soil your beautiful bodyWhen I am hereI am with you in totalYou are never alone…I know becauseI am the womanWho loves you foreverI will count every star and say I love youA thousand timesLike our last night together, my loveI will tell the truth of your taleA thousand timesSo you remember who you once wereYour name is my name nowI am La LloronaI cry for youI cry for meI cry for all of usWho bear the burden of these times."