One night Rosalinda is awakened by a noise in the family’s garden. She is astonished to see a man creeping away with a sack of fruit from her beloved lemon tree. Rosalinda seeks out La Anciana for advice. The wise old woman offers an inventive way to help the tree and the man driven to steal her lemons. Set in the Mexican countryside, this charming story explores how it feels to get gifts — and to give them. The cloth edition of Under the Lemon Moon is a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award winner, a Smithsonian Notable Book for Children, and a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. “Rene King Moreno’s figures are soft and gently rounded like the spirit of the story.” — Chicago Tribune
Edith Hope Fine is an award-winning writer with numerous children's books. Graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University, she taught for years (preschool, elementary, junior high writing classes, gifted students, San Diego State University Extension, Master Teacher, tutoring . . .) before turning to writing. She's done hundreds of lively school visits and always tells the students that the most important thing they use each day is their curiosity muscle. Her curiosity muscle makes every day intriguing, every new writing project cool. Her first ebook is available at Amazon--a biography for young readers of the remarkable geneticist Barbara McClintock who won an unshared Nobel at age 81.
Still a loyal Michigander at heart, Edith now lives in Southern California. She's a rabid recycler, bibliophile, and geeky logophile who loves digging into Greek and Latin word roots and can get lost in a dictionary or thesaurus. She is active in SCBWI (want to write for children? Google it!). She lives near San Diego. Visit her at www.edithfine.com. And yes, she's working on teleporting. Bazinga!
