Where Wonder Grows — Xelena Gonzalez

"A children''s picture book about a grandmother bonding with her granddaughters as she teaches them how much they can learn from nature just by being curious.Grandma knows that there is wondrous knowledge to be found everywhere you can think to look. She takes her girls to their special garden, and asks them to look over their collection of rocks, crystals, seashells, and meteorites to see what marvels they have to show. They were here long before us and know so much more about our world than we ever will,"" Grandma says. So they are called grandfathers. By taking a close look with an open mind, they see the strength of rocks shaped by volcanoes,the cleansing power of beautiful crystals, the oceans that housed their shells and shapes its environment, and the long journey meteorites took to find their way to them. Gathered together, Grandma and the girls let their surroundings spark their imaginations.This is a wonderful book to foster a loving intergenerational family bond. With its dazzling illustrations and poetic text, it''s also the perfect book to encourage the curiosity of little ones and cultivate an enthusiastic approach to learning.Xelena Gonzalez andAdriana M. Garcia are the dynamic duo who created All Around Us, winner of the Tomas Rivera Mexican-American Book Award, Pura Belpre Honor for Illustration, American Indian Youth Literature Honor Award, among other accolades. When they are not dreaming up new, unusual books for kids, Adriana can be found painting murals and portraits, or designing cool stuff like stage sets and websites. Xelena stays busy dancing, storytelling, and playing with other writing forms like scripts, essays, and poems. They live and shine in the same Westside neighborhood of San Antonio where they were raised."""