Life on a farm in the Dominican Republic. A feast for the eyes and ears. Electric word images illustrated by the children of Patagonia Creative Arts Association in Patagonia, Arizona. ages 3-9. The story of a grandmother living in the mountains outside Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Mi Abuelita is bilingual with translations made in the Dominican Republic by Tim Holt and Carmen Hernandez de Holt.
Rebecca Newth was born and brought up in Lansing, Michigan (1940-), educated at Michigan State University, married John Harrison a librarian who was employed first at Harvard and then at Yale and finally U. of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Rebecca taught creative writing for many years and at first wrote only poetry but began to write also fiction and children's books. Eventually, she completed a checklist of books published by New Directions which her husband, now deceased, had begun. In 1995 she established a publishing company, Will Hall Books, to further literacy and the arts, and in 2006 the John Harrison Opera Foundation, a non-profit organization to promote opera in Northwest Arkansas. Rebecca is on the right in photo with her sister.
