Best Children's Book of 1999, Texas Institute of Letters-now available in paper. Grandma Fina is walking through her neighborhood with her wonderful yellow umbrella. She loves her yellow umbrella! She stops to greet everyone she sees. Each one secretly thinks that Grandma Fina's ragged umbrella needs to be replaced with a new one. Benjamin Alire Saenz is the author of two novels- Carry Me Like Water and The House of Forgetting , which will be made into a full-length motion picture. He lives in El Paso, Texas. Geromimo Garcia is known nationally for his illustrations in A Gift from Papa Diego , by Benjamin Alire Saenz and Tell Me a Cuento by Joe Hayes. He lives in El Paso, Texas.
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BENJAMIN ALIRE S ENZ was born in his grandmother's house in Picacho, New Mexico--on the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico where Juliana in Hollywood is set. He was the fourth of seven children and was brought up in a traditional Mexican-American Catholic family. His family spoke mostly Spanish at home, and it was only through his education in the public sc
More about Benjamin Alire SaenzBenjamin Alire Saenz is a novelist, poet, essayist and writer of children's books. He has received the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Lannan Fellowship and an American Book Award. He teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso, and considers himself a fronterizo, a person of the border.
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