Self Portrait
By: George Ancona
Publisher: Richard C. Owen Publishers, 2006
Age Level: 9-12
Language: English
ISBN: 1-57274-860-5
Photographs of the author/photographer invite the reader to visit the author at his home and studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There he describes the process of writing and putting together the photographs for a children’s book. Photographs from his family album show the journey of his parents from the Yucatan in Mexico to New York where he was born and grew up. He talks of the influences in his life and shows some of the people he has gotten to known in his travels around the world to make books.