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Mia's story a sketchbook of hopes and dreams

While looking for her beloved puppy, Poco, one winter day, young Mia discovers how beautiful the world can be, as well as a way to make her own village of Campamento San Francisco more lovely and her family's life easier.

Main Author: Foreman, Michael, 1938-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2006.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > Colombia > Juvenile fiction.
Villages > Juvenile fiction.
Flowers > Juvenile fiction.
Colombia > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: While looking for her beloved puppy, Poco, one winter day, young Mia discovers how beautiful the world can be, as well as a way to make her own village of Campamento San Francisco more lovely and her family's life easier.
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
ISBN: 0763630632
9780763630638
Author Notes: Michael Foreman was born in Pakefield, Suffolk on March 21, 1938. At the age of fifteen, Foreman began to study art. His first children's book was published while he was still a student. He earned his M. A. from the Royal College of Art and since then, has written and/or illustrated many children's books.

After leaving art school Michael traveled all over the world making films and television commercials. He has also worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, and TV ads. He even worked for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses.

Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Award twice, the Smarties Book Prize, The Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Book Prize and the Francis William's Illustration Award twice.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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