Pedro Martín writes and illustrates children’s graphic novels rooted in Mexican American family life. Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir recreates a childhood road trip in which Pedro and his large family travel from California to Jalisco to bring his grandfather back to the United States. The book combines family comedy, food, music, sibling chaos and stories about his grandfather with questions about what it means to inherit a culture one partly knows from a distance. Martín’s cartooning is energetic and expressive, making the memoir accessible to middle-grade readers without flattening the family history. Mexikid works especially well for middle-grade readers because its family jokes and road-trip chaos sit beside questions about language, grandparents and belonging without turning cultural identity into a lesson. Read more Less
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