Local Children’s Author Will Discuss Her Bilingual Book “Grandma’s Pear Tree”
The San Diego Public Library will host an author-talk featuring children’s author Suzanne Santillan. She will discuss her award-winning work, Grandma’s Pear Tree, a bilingual children’s picture book. This event, which is free and open to the public, is at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, at the Mt. View/Beckwourth Branch Library, located at 721 San Pasqual St., 92113.
The library will be offering a free copy of the book to each family attending the event, while supplies last. The book and author are recent recipients of the Golden Moonbeam Award for picture books ages 4-8. Grandma’s Pear Tree is Ms. Santillan’s first picture book, and a realization of her dream to be a children’s book writer. The author was born and raised in Los Angeles, but currently lives in San Diego. She works as a freelance graphic artist and has illustrated charts and graphs for over 100 library reference books.
Suzanne Santillan’s appearance is part of Mt View/Beckwourth Branch Library’s “Building for the Future” project. This project was designed to motivate reading by introducing library patrons to the world of books through the presentation of local authors, the offering of free books, and by providing them with information on literacy. The “Building for the Future” project has been sponsored by a local grant from the Neighborhood Unity Foundation.
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