Growing up with injustice all around him, Cesar made a choice to fight it. But he choose to fight it, nonviolently, and used the method of organizing a Union as the way. Slowly, working with... More > farmworkers up and down the California fields, he spread his message of 'si se puede!' Yes we can! He gave courage and 'heart' to those who had only endured the injustice before. Thus was the UFW born.
This is a bilingual_Spanish and English language side by side story of 42 pages. It is all in color.< Less
Growing up with injustice all around him, Cesar made a choice to fight it. But he choose to fight it, nonviolently, and used the method of organizing a Union as the way. Slowly, working with... More > farmworkers up and down the California fields, he spread his message of 'si se puede!' Yes we can! He gave courage and 'heart' to those who had only endured the injustice before. Thus was the UFW born.
This is a bilingual_Spanish and English language side by side story of 42 pages. It is all in color.< Less
This is a series of poetry written over 35 years, based on personal observations of what happens when divorce happens. The greatest effect is between the children and the parents who have split. ... More > Inevitably, sides are taken and no matter what, tales are told and lies are given as truth.
Distructive, and disruptive, this affects the relationship between fathers and sons because sons believe they must chose between the father or the mother.
There is no solution but forgiveness.< Less
Within 32 pages, and interior pictures all done in black and white, the simplified story of Juan Diego and the Virgin of Guadalupe lives. This story is a simple version of the event that is lived... More > over and over each year by every person of Latino descent. The content is aimed at children, ages 9 through 12, so that they may know the core of what happened in Mexico in 1531 and how Mary became the Mother of the Americas.
Written in both Spanish and English, this story aims to teach the children of this country just who is OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE.< Less
This bilingual version, abbreviated, of the story of the arrival of the Mother of the Americas, the Virgin of Guadalupe, is written and illustrated all inb color for children and for those who want... More > to know: just who is OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE?
In 32 pages the story of Juan Diego and his meeting with the Mother of God in 1531 who appeared to him as a 'meztizo' indian woman is told. Her love for the poor and the faithful is shown in her words and in what she asked of Juan Diego. Obedient and patient, Juan followed through with her directives. He died in 1548, as honorably and as well as he lived.
He is Mexico's first Native American Canonized Saint.< Less
Here is a children's book of twist about rhymes just for the fun of it. written and illustrated by a 12 year old girl. It is full of clever foolishness, as only kids can do.
A bilingual account of the force of Cesar Chavez behind the movement to form a Union. Here was a man who could not let go until a sense of dignity was won. Justice was man's finest treatment of... More > other men and Cesar would use up his life in its search.
One page is in English, the cross page is in Spanish, but the illustration is the same. 86 pages.B&W illustration; cover and back page is in color.< Less
What if you had no color at all? What if you were simply a see-through child? How does anyone know you are here? What can such a child do? Ah, feelings make it all happen. Feelings lead to colors... More > being born. Colors blend in song and friendship. Thus is the rainbow born.< Less
Cesar Chavez was a farmworker, a migrant farmworker over time with his family. He knew unfairness and injustice. Slowly, he decided to fight back, with all the farmworkers who shared his vision. ... More > The movement became a Union, the UFW. It would be the only voice listened to by Law. It was a long road getting to that point.
This is written both in English and in Spanish, one language per page of the same illustration.
This book is in full color with each page illustrated.
It is 84 pages in length.< Less
In the mid 1800's Sarah Winnemucca saw the new invaders as 'owl-eyes', as strange yet powerful, as curious. Her Grandfather would tell a story that had been with the Piute people a long time and... More > Sarah would not forget it.
This Great Basin area, or Nevada, we call it, is where Sarah grew up. Once grown up, she would reach from one end of the country to the other to speak out and write in her quest for fairness and justice for her people.
This book is written in both Spanish and English.
This book, ID # 833512 is 8.5x11--large size. The layout is a split-page Spanish-English layout with the picture repeated so that the total book is 32 pages. The book is all in color and thus is costly, thus the new layout.< Less
Writing and illustrating books is second nature to me. It seems to have come with my fingers and my brain. However, I didn't know I could do this until I joined the Order of the Daughters of Charity. I went to college in St. Louis, taught 5th and 6th graders in New Orleans, then taught 6th and 7th graders in St, Louis.
I was 17 years old when I entered the Daughters of Charity. I was 32 when I stretched out into the wider world. The 'me' that I was became myself now everywhere. I always continued to teach wherever I was, however.
By the time I was 36, I was in California and had met and married my husband of now 35 years--Bruce. We both moved to Reno, NV.
Drawing, sketching, illustrating just got better over the years, plus, there were freebee art programs online to download and us as tools. The results over time are on this site.
Now, I am into the bilingual phrase of creativity. Not all books are bilingual, yet, but give me time...give me time.
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