Sara Lissa Paulson

Sara learned Spanish in the streets of Sevilla with Antonio Marín Márquez, his bandmates, friends, and family. It was there that she got her first translation job at age 19, working for a local music zine. Her degrees are in Comparative Literature, Spanish, Bilingual Education, and Library Science. She has worked as a children's librarian in NYC's alternative elementary and high schools for over 21 years, reading aloud day in and day out, and teaches future librarians of all ages at Queens College's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies.

Sara Lissa Paulson's Titles

Johnny, the Sea, and Me

Johnny, the Sea, and Me

A 2025 Batchelder Honor Book! ★ A heartwarming middle-grade novel from Colombia about a ten-year-old boy and the larger-than-life figure...


Amazing and True Story of Tooth Mouse Pérez

The Amazing and True Story of Tooth Mouse Pérez

Does every country have a Tooth Fairy? Well, in Spain and other Spanish- speaking countries, it happens to be a Tooth Mouse, and this is his...


Book of Questions

Book of Questions

Where is the center of the sea? Why do the waves never break there? A book containing unanswerable, fantastical questions, inviting us to be...