Images by Mabette Colón Pérez. Editora Educación Emergente, 2023.

Reading level: Fifth grade and up

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All royalties provided to the authors will be donated to Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) in Woodburn, Oregon.

Authors and artists: Catalina M. de Onís, Lia Godino, Ryan Reed, Mabette Colón Pérez, Claudio Gutiérrez, Eli Bernell, Olivia Black, Beatriz Cabrera, Anna C. Easton, Juan Espinoza, David Lefevre, Andrés Olavarrieta Colasurdo, Maya Ríos, Elias Roessler, Maia A. Thomas, and Dominic Zupo

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Lia Godino for her remarkable creativity and enthusiasm for imagining and writing this story; to Indigenous fire practitioner and wildland firefighter Ryan Reed (Karuk, Hupa, and Yurok) for his writing and reviewing contributions, especially related to cultural fire; to Mabette Colón Pérez, whose beautiful artwork fills this book’s pages; to Claudio Gutiérrez for offering initial visual inspiration for the story’s characters; to Gracie Del Rosario for brainstorming and providing plot suggestions; and to Editora Educación Emergente editors Lissette Rolón Collazo and Beatriz Llenín Figueroa for their persistent publishing efforts in support of the Puerto Rican people in the archipelago and beyond.

The coauthors wrote this collaborative work in “Translating Environmental Justice,” a Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing instructed by Dr. Catalina M. de Onís, in the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College on Kalapuya Ilihi. Thank you to students Lia Godino, Beatriz Cabrera, Maia A. Thomas, Maya Ríos, Juan Espinoza, Andrés Olavarrieta Colasurdo, Olivia Black, Dominic Zupo, David Lefevre, Elias Roessler, Anna C. Easton, and Eli Bernell.

Spanish-language translation by Catalina M. de Onís, in consultation with Lissette Rolón Collazo, Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, and Carlos de Onís Irizarry.

The University of Oregon’s Center for Science Communication Research, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, and the Clark Honors College funded this book project.