This year several new books took flight from my drawing table. This one hits home. Maybe Something Beautiful written by F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell due out this April from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The genesis of this book was a personal journey that...
Looking back at the year I’ve been thinking about the power of perseverance and it’s importance in my own life. What mattered most in the story Margarita Engle wrote about Millo Castro Zaldarriga, was her determined courage to keep going. It’s...
After my last post, it was exciting to find Millo jamming with the moon on The Horn Book Guide 2015. Happy Halloween! Thanks to Tim Wadham at School Library Journal for his post Hands on Titles that Celebrate Maker and Latino...
“There are nights the wolves are silent and only the moon howls”-George Carlin Perhaps it was because my mother used to sing an Argentinian song Cancion para bañar la luna to me as a child, but I remember staring for hours on end at the moon. As an...
