Sara Fajardo
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Coming 2024
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PAKA PAKA...
Sara's debut picture book biography, Paka Paka Con La Papa: Alberto Salas Plays Potato Hide-and-Seek, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Juana Martinez-Neal will be published by Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan in 2023.
The story is about one of the world’s most successful plant collectors, who travels up and down the Peruvian Andes on a lifelong quest to help feed the world through protecting biodiversity,
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Sara's debut picture book biography, Paka Paka Con La Papa: Alberto Salas Plays Potato Hide-and-Seek, illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Juana Martinez-Neal will be published by Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan in 2023.
The story is about one of the world’s most successful plant collectors, who travels up and down the Peruvian Andes on a lifelong quest to help feed the world through protecting biodiversity,
GOODREADS LINK
ABOUT SARA...
Sara first discovered the power of words when she was four. Newly arrived in the United States from Peru, her English vocabulary consisted of the word “monkey,” which she promptly turned into her favorite greeting, “Hola Monkey!” The amused reaction to that phrase started her on a lifelong path of telling stories—first as a photojournalist, then as a multimedia storyteller for humanitarian aid organizations, and now as a writer for children. Her words and camera have taken her across Latin America and Africa. While covering emergency responses, refugees, and farming communities she learned from kids that abandoned ant hills make the best mud for making toys in Malawi, how to make a car from a bottle in post-earthquake Haiti, and that plastic bags wrapped really tight make great soccer balls in Kenya. These experiences have deepened her commitment to our common humanity and have taught her that the only thing that separates us is our circumstances.
The daughter of an American mother (a bilingual teacher) and a Peruvian father (a retired professor of Quechua at Stanford University), Sara strives to tell stories that celebrate her multi-cultural heritage. She grew up in the agricultural community of Salinas, California, and has lived in Finland, Japan, and Kenya.
Website coming soon, but connect with Sara on Twitter.
Sara first discovered the power of words when she was four. Newly arrived in the United States from Peru, her English vocabulary consisted of the word “monkey,” which she promptly turned into her favorite greeting, “Hola Monkey!” The amused reaction to that phrase started her on a lifelong path of telling stories—first as a photojournalist, then as a multimedia storyteller for humanitarian aid organizations, and now as a writer for children. Her words and camera have taken her across Latin America and Africa. While covering emergency responses, refugees, and farming communities she learned from kids that abandoned ant hills make the best mud for making toys in Malawi, how to make a car from a bottle in post-earthquake Haiti, and that plastic bags wrapped really tight make great soccer balls in Kenya. These experiences have deepened her commitment to our common humanity and have taught her that the only thing that separates us is our circumstances.
The daughter of an American mother (a bilingual teacher) and a Peruvian father (a retired professor of Quechua at Stanford University), Sara strives to tell stories that celebrate her multi-cultural heritage. She grew up in the agricultural community of Salinas, California, and has lived in Finland, Japan, and Kenya.
Website coming soon, but connect with Sara on Twitter.