¡Cuenta Conmigo! By Grace Díaz (writer) and Ruth Scholl (illustrator)
In this bilingual counting book, Grace Díaz (writer) and Ruth Scholl (illustrator) focus on a child counting objects that she finds interesting inside the little world of her home. The book reflects and celebrates the increasingly common reality of growing up in a bilingual, bicultural, biracial household from a child’s perspective.
In this bilingual counting book, Grace Díaz (writer) and Ruth Scholl (illustrator) focus on a child counting objects that she finds interesting inside the little world of her home. The book reflects and celebrates the increasingly common reality of growing up in a bilingual, bicultural, biracial household from a child’s perspective.
In this bilingual counting book, Grace Díaz (writer) and Ruth Scholl (illustrator) focus on a child counting objects that she finds interesting inside the little world of her home. The book reflects and celebrates the increasingly common reality of growing up in a bilingual, bicultural, biracial household from a child’s perspective.
Grace Díaz is currently an educator and a parent who uses English and Spanish in both settings, often interchangeably. This book was inspired by her search for children’s literature and picture books to reflect the reality of her bicultural and bilingual household. Finding these books was challenging, so Grace decided to write the book she wanted for her own daughter. She wanted a book that depicted a biracial, bicultural, and bilingual family in a normal household setting, all the while celebrating children’s ability to interchange between Spanish and English. She used cultural inspiration and language from her own household and educational experience.
Ruth Scholl is a children’s book author/illustrator based in Fairbanks, AK. She graduated from a small liberal arts college in Minnesota with majors in Studio Art and German and spent some time living in Germany afterwards. She had editorial illustrations published in Ladybug and Babybug magazines, as well as two children’s books published from small presses in the US and Germany.