TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA

Saturday, March 1, 2008

ANIMALS OF AUSTRALIA

Grandpa, Grandma, Where Did You Go?

Grandpa and Grandma went far away, to the opposite side of the Earth, to a country called Australia.

There we saw many animals.

We saw sheep get shorn.

We saw sheepdogs that herded sheep.

We saw Tasmanian devils whose ears turned red when they got angry.

We saw a skink that looked like a little snake.

We saw Koalas with soft gray fur.

We saw kangaroos.

We saw patty melons in the wild; they look like kangaroos.

It was a good thing we did not see sharks!

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.