Antonio Sacre

Antonio Sacre, born in Boston to a Cuban father and Irish American mother, is an internationally touring bilingual storyteller, author, and solo performanceartist based in Los Angeles. He has performed at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the National Storytelling Festival, and museums, schools, libraries, and festivals internationally. His first picture book, "The Barking Mouse", published by Albert Whitman and Company in 2003, was a winner of the 2004 International Reading Association Notable Books for a Global Society. He next two picturebooks, "La Noche Buena, a Christmas Story", and "A Mango in the Hand, a Story of Proverbs" were published by Abrams Books for Young Readers. Both were chosen for inclusion in the prestigious California Readers Book Collections for School Libraries in 2011 and 2012. His next book, "My Name is Cool: Stories from a Cuban-Irish-American Storyteller" will be published by Familius books October, 2013, for young adult readers. "My Name is Cool" is a hilarious compilation of stories from his childhood. Drawn from Sacre's personal history growing up bilingual and bicultural as a Cuban-Irish American, the book weaves the Spanish language, Cuban family, and Irish humor into 18 unforgettable tales full of humor, inspiration, tradition and family.