The Last Cuentista was named one of the best children's books of the year by BookPage, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, the New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal. īooklist included Lupe Wong Won't Dance on their 2021 lists of the top ten "Best Middle-Grade Debuts" and "Best Sports Books for Youth." The Spanish-language translation of Lupe Wong Won't Dance ( Lupe Wong No Baila) and The Last Cuentista are Junior Library Guild books. The inspiration for The Last Cuentista came from a writing exercise involving the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea. but it doesn’t dwell in the darkness, preferring to give its readers healthy doses of hope, wonder and page-turning action.” Previous Newbery winner Tae Keller said The Last Cuentista “certainly veers into the dark end of middle-grade fiction, with brainwashing, ‘purging’, and, yes, the destruction of our entire planet. In Higuera's novel, 12-year-old Petra Peña and her family are among those chosen to escape Earth before Halley's comet collides with the planet however, after waking up from a 400-year sleep, everyone's memories had been erased except Petra's. The Last Cuentista was published by Levine Querido and edited by Nick Thomas.
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