John Parra
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Award-winning illustrator and designer John (Juanito) Parra studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His clients include United Airlines, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, PBS, and the L.A. Weekly. John’s first children’s book was My Name is Gabriela, about the life of the Nobel Prize winning poet Gabriela Mistral.