Best Children's Book of 1999, Texas Institute of Letters—now available in paper. Grandma Fina is walking through her neighborhood with her wonderful yellow umbrella. She loves her yellow umbrella! She stops to greet everyone she sees. Each one secretly thinks that Grandma Fina's ragged umbrella needs to be replaced with a new one.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz is the author of two novels—Carry Me Like Water and The House of Forgetting, which will be made into a full-length motion picture. He lives in El Paso, Texas.
Gerómimo Garcia is known nationally for his illustrations in A Gift from Papá Diego, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz and Tell Me a Cuento by Joe Hayes. He lives in El Paso, Texas.