The story
Cinco Puntos Press was founded by novelist Lee Merrill Byrd and poet Bobby Byrd in 1985. It became known for publishing books with a multi-cultural and political focus for both children and adults, with a focus on bilingual children's books and fiction and non-fiction about the Mexico–United States border region.
Cinco Puntos received national notoriety when, in March 1999, it published the book The Story of Colors / La Historia de los colores written by Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico, causing the National Endowment for the Arts to pull funding for the publisher. The Lannan Foundation provided Cinco Puntos Press with twice the amount of the lost funding, and Cinco Puntos Press sold out their first printing of the book in days.
Cinco Puntos Press was sold to Lee & Low Books in June 2021.
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