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By: Paloma Lopez / Illustrated by: Abraham Matias

We can always remember her.

Edicin en espaol! Un libro ilustrado emocionalmente conmovedor y visualmente estimulante sobre la vida, la muerte y la celebracin de aquellos a quienes amamos. Ideal para los nios con preguntas importantes, que estn lidiando con el duelo y experimentando una prdida.

Nana est rodeada de su familia y disfruta de la compaa de sus muchos nietos. Tambin est cansada y siente dolor. Pronto ella comienza su transicin de la vida a la muerte, acompaada por su querido perro Xolo, Popo.

Juntos emprenden el viaje de Nana y, al final de la historia, la familia de Nana celebra los muchos aos de amor que compartieron con ella. Y ahora, un nieto cuidar de Popo.

Popo el Xolo est disponible en ediciones en ingls y espaol.

Nana is surrounded by family and takes joy in her many grandchildren. She’s also tired and feels pain. Soon she begins her transition from life into death, accompanied by her beloved Xolo dog, Popo.

Together they go on Nanas journey, and by the end of the story, Nana’s family celebrates the many years of love they shared with her. A grandchild takes on caring for Popo in Nana’s memory.

Simultaneously published in Spanish and English,Popo el Xolo helps kids understand how loved ones live on in our memories. An unforgettable picture book that’s grounded in the importance of the 9 levels of Mictln and the role Xolo dogs play in Indigenous cultural understandings of present-day Mexico.

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Author & Illustrator

Paloma Lopez, author

Paloma Angelina Lopez is a mother, student, and creative living in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico. Her maternal grandmothers family comes from Jalisco and Guanajuato and her fathers family is from Zacatecas and Sinaloa. Paloma married into a Cherokee family that is heavily involved in language and culture, and she works as a full-time Cherokee language learner. She hopes to become an educator and author in the Cherokee language. This is her debut childrens book. She hopes to publish more childrens literature inspired by her culture and upbringing.

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Abraham Matias, illustrator

Abraham Matias is an illustrator, designer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He spent his childhood in Mexico making his own toys and miniature sets and drawing stories. Abraham works with paper-cut puppets staged and photographed inside a toy theater to create 3D, handcrafted, dreamlike scenes.

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Details

Spanish Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-458-4

English Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-457-7

Ages: 69
Page count: 40
10 x 8

Publication date: August 19, 2025

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