Here is one of the studies I created for Maybe Something Beautiful due out next April. The story was inspired by the work we have done with many dedicated volunteers in the East Village of downtown San Diego. I was looking for mood and atmosphere as the story written...
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...
Grateful for the KIRKUS interview Julie Danielson did with Margarita Engle and I about the creation of DRUM DREAM GIRL. She is a fantastic writer who interviews and features the work of authors and illustrators at her blog Seven Impossible Things...
I’ve been dreaming about the release of DRUM DREAM GIRL and today a new book was born. Thanks to author Margarita Engle and our young heroine Millo Castro Zaldarriaga for believing in dreams. The journey from Margarita’s poetic words to the birth of this...
