Cousins Dalia and Celia, whose birthday falls on the same day, discover it's much more fun to share their birthday party than it is to celebrate separately in this colorful bilingual picture book.
LUPE RUIZ-FLORES is the author of six bilingual picture books: Lupita's First Dance / El primer baile de Lupita (2013), Let's Salsa / Bailemos salsa (2013), Alicia's Fruity Drinks / Las aguas frescas de Alicia (2012), The Battle of the Snow Cones / La guerra de las raspas (2010), The Woodcutter's Gift / El regalo del leñador (2007) and Lupita's Papalote / El papalote de Lupita (2002). She has also written children's narrative passages for Harcourt Educational Measurement Center. Some of her poetry has been published in Voices Along the River, the San Antonio Express-News and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. She received a Master of Arts in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1994. She was an engineering technician with the Department of Defense until her retirement in 1999. A member of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, she resides in San Antonio, Texas.
