Borrowed Copy
Four Questions for Donna Barba Higuera
by Amanda Ramierez for Publishers Weekly Newbery Medalist Donna Barba Higuera retells the Aztec myth of creation, casting Xolotl, the dog-headed god of lighting, death, and misfortune, as the hero in her middle grade work Xolo, illustrated by Mariana Ruiz Johnson. When all life on Earth perishes and the immortal gods must throw themselves into a volcano to make the planet spin anew, Xolo’s boastful feathered serpent god twin brother, Quetzalcoatl, is the first to leap. But timid Xolo cannot summon …
