Carlos Aponte

🪞COVER REVEAL🪞 We are thrilled to share a first look at the cover of By the WAYE Issue 03, featuring 🕊️ “Peace Bird” 🕊️ by Puerto Rican illustrator Carlos Aponte. (@carlosvisualdiary ) When we were thinking about our featured artist, we sought someone whose work speaks as powerfully as the poetry selected to appear in this issue. Aponte’s minimalist illustrations offer an elegant and expressive distillation of his subjects, the result of disciplined observation and skill. This issue showcases more of Aponte’s ink illustrations, which document the nuances of everyday life, from quiet, predictable moments to the weight of global atrocities. Original, witty, and at times dark, his work deeply examines the lived experience. Carlos Aponte’s illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and Esquire magazines. He is also the author-illustrator of the children’s books Preciosa, Across the Bay, and A Season to Bee. You can also find his artwork at El Museo de la Salsa and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC. This magazine is paid for in part by a grant from the Jersey City Arts and Culture Trust Fund @jerseycityartscouncil @jcartandculture

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. The 2026 Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards (PADIBA) winners and finalists have been announced! 📚THE PB/GN FINALISTS 🎖How to Say Goodbye in Cuban Daniel Miyares Anne Schwartz Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 🎖Popo the Xolo Paloma Angelina Lopez Abraham Matias Charlesbridge 🎖Precious Carlos Aponte Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 🎖Toto Hyewon Yum Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Holiday House. . . . The judging committee consisted of Read Your World board members, advisors, and friends. They were joined by Julie Majerčák, a Multilingual Learners Specialist and a Literacy Influencer for the selection of this year’s winners and finalists. Each of the two [2] winners will receive a $1500 prize through a grant funded by board member Federico Erebia and his husband, James J. Jordan. All of the PADIBA winners, finalists, longlists, and commended books can be viewed and bought AT A DISCOUNT on the PADIBA Bookshop page: ⏩Bookshop.org/shop/PADIBA . . . ABOUT READ YOUR WORLD Read Your World (RYW) is a 501c3 nonprofit with a mission to raise awareness about children’s books that celebrate diversity, and to get more of these books into the hands of readers. More at ⏩ReadYourWorld.org. . . . Starting in 2027, The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Awards (PADIBA) will be four [4] annual prizes of $750 each for a PB, GN, MG, and YA novel that feature intersectional protagonists. The submission window for the 2027 PADIBA will be July 1 - August 31, 2026 for books traditionally published in 2026. More at ⏩ReadYourWorld.org/awards. #PADIBA #2026PADIBA #ReadYourWorld #PedroAndDaniel @danielmiyaresdoodles @anneschwartzbooks @penguinkids @palomaalopezauthor @abematias @charlesbridgepublishing @carlosvisualdiary @nancyrosep @yumhyewon @nealporterbooks @holidayhousepeachtree @mrs.majercak

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The things we keep for the stories they tell.

A massively talented musician, Colón rose from a tough upbringing in the South Bronx to become not just a masterful performer, but a visionary musician who took the music of his Puerto Rican parents and understood precisely how to blend it with the New York jazz and funk scene. There is perhaps no other musician from the fabled Fania empire who so epitomized the salsa sound that propelled Latin music in the ’70s and who so defined it as a quadruple threat. Colón was not, by his own admission, a brilliant singer, but he wrote his songs, he arranged them, he produced them and he played his trombone like no one else in Latin music. Signed to Fania when he was only 15 years old, his possibilities were quickly discerned by label founders Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci, who put him to work producing his own albums as well as those of others. Colón’s very long list of genre-defining hits includes his seminal “Ché Ché Colé” and “Aguanile,” recorded with Héctor Lavoe on vocals; the album Celia and Willie alongside Celia Cruz; and of course, the ground-breaking Siembra, the 1978 album he recorded with Ruben Blades, which includes the hit “Pedro Navaja” and which still is the biggest-selling salsa album of all time.

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Benito ( Bad Bunny) makes history with Grammy win for album of the year. It’s the first time an all Spanish-language album has won the recording academy’s top award.