Zepeda, Gwendolyn

GWENDOLYN ZEPEDA is the author of three bilingual picture books for children: " I Kick the Ball / Pateo el balon "(Pinata Books, 2011); "Growing Up with Tamales / Los tamales de Ana "(Pinata Books, 2008), a 2009 Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title; and "Sunflowers / Girasoles " (Pinata Books, 2009), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters' Austin Public Library Friends Foundation Award for Best Children's Book. She lives and works in Houston, Texas.