Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist and author who has exhibited internationally with shows in Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Dallas, TX, Philadelphia, PA, and Spain. He has received the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators and for many years was the art director of TIME magazine. He is the author-illustrator of The Mango Tree (La mata de mango) and the illustrator of Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Smith Jr., Float Like a Butterfly by Ntozake Shange, Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy, and Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que crecio en el Bronx by Jonah Winter. Throughout his career, Rodriguez has received commissions to create artwork for numerous clients, including the New York Times, TIME magazine, The New Yorker, and many other publications and book publishers. Rodriguez’s artwork is in the collections of a variety of institutions, including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as in numerous private collections. He lives with his wife and daughter in New Jersey.

"[E]nergetic print-style illustrations. This is an effective introduction to basic Spanish and English vocabulary that also provides subtle insight into one child’s immigrant experience navigating 'two worlds / dos mundos.' "