HAPPY 75 BIRTHDAY, JOE HAYES! ¡MIL FELICIDADES!
Joe Hayes with fans! Tucson Book Festival, 2018 "Joe's a big kid." --Gabriel Espinosa, a friend "Joe's a big kid!" That's what my friend Gabriel who does yard work for us said to me the other day. Then he told me about seeing Joe in the hallway of his son's Ken Brian's school. "He just came up and gave us a big hug. I can still feel that warm hug!" That's Joe Hayes in a nutshell. Cinco Puntos Press wants to send birthday greetings to our great good friend storyteller Joe Hayes! He's 75! Anyone who knows Cinco Puntos knows Joe and knows his books. Indeed, it's been 35 years since we first published the first edition of the now classic bilingual La Llorona, The Weeping Woman . Back then it was a 6x9 staple bound duotone paperback. Vicki Trego Hill was the illustrator. Since then the story has migrated through a number of editions and now a beautiful full-color fully illustrated storybook. Vicki's illustrations are the sa
