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A truck horn sounds through Armando’s colonia, his neighborhood, near the city dump. Señor David is back, setting up school on a blue tarp spread on the ground. Oh how Armando longs to go to this school, but he knows he must help his father pick through trash in the dump for things his family can use, recycle, or sell.
When Armando’s parents at last decide to let him spend afternoons at Señor David’s school, Armando
is overjoyed. He’ll learn to read and write. He’ll learn numbers. Best of all, he’ll draw pictures. And one momentous day Armando’s love of drawing helps bring an almost unimaginable treasure to the children of the colonia.
Told with honesty and hope, Armando and the
Blue Tarp School is a testament to the
pursuit of dreams and the power of
one person to make a difference
in the lives of others.
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Authors selected by The Greater San Diego Reading Association to receive the 2009 International Reading Association's Celebrate Literacy Award for their contributions to literacy, writing, teaching, and for their school visits.
Great News!
Armando and the Blue Tarp School has been named a nominee for the 2009-2010 California Young Reader Medal. Learn more about this medal at:
www.CaliforniaYoungReaderMedal.org
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Armando is featured on the summer 2008 cover of The California Reader, the journal of the California Reading Association. Helen Foster James's piece about Armando and the Nitty-Gritty Grammar guides is on the inside cover, and an article Judith and Edith wrote about the process of writing the book is found on page 3.
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Edith Hope Fine (left) and Judith Pinkerton Josephson (right)
are full-time writers of children’s books and stories. Fine’s Under the Lemon Moon, published by Lee & Low Books, was a Parents’ Choice Award Honor book. Josephson’s biographies of Walt Disney and Beethoven won first place in the San Diego Book Awards.
Fine and Josephson met David Lynch—whose work in a colonia of Tijuana, Mexico, was the inspiration for this story—in 1985 while freelancing for the Los Angeles Times. Fine and Josephson both live in Encinitas, California. Their Web site is GrammarPatrol.com. A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to Responsibility, Inc. |
 Hernán Sosa, born in Argentina and raised in Paraguay, received a degree in visual communications from the Colorado Institute of Art. He currently works as an illustrator of children’s books and as a graphic designer focusing mostly on magazines. Sosa and his wife live in Denver, Colorado.
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