Summary
- Award-winning author-photographer
- Noted language consultants Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy
- Intimate, original photographs
- Children share their lives in Spanish and English
- Word list, map, family history, and cultural background
Grades K-4 National Social Studies Standards
- Culture: I
- Explore and describe similarities and differences in the ways people, societies, and cultures address similar human needs and concerns
- Give examples of how experiences may be interpreted differently by people from diverse cultural perspectives
- Describe ways in which language, stories, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture
George Ancona was born December 4, 1929 in Brooklyn , NY. When he finished high school, he went to Mexico for six months to meet his family. He returned to New York and went to work as a graphic designer.
Ancona began taking pictures of his children, and decided that photography would be his hobby. After ten years he quit his job and become a professional photographer. From these photos, he began to make children's books using the words of other writers. After several books, his editor asked him to try his own hand at writing
Since then, Ancona has produced more than eighty books for children. Ancona's awards include a Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year Citation for Handtalk Birthday, a Parent's Choice Award for The Piñata Maker, and an Outstanding Science Trade Book Citation for The Golden Tamarind Comes Home.
(Bowker Author Biography)
