• April 3, 4:30–5:30 p.m., W. H. Thompson Alumni Center, University of Nebraska at Omaha, an educator event with a book signing to follow.
• April 5, 11 a.m., Omaha Public Library’s South Branch, 2302 M St., authors will do readings and reflect on their ideas and thoughts with the audience, followed by a book signing. Refreshments will be served.

Both authors are well-known for writing bilingual books for children, adult and children’s poetry, and Spanish language textbooks for high school and college use.

Alma Flor Ada grew up in Cuba. Her family lived in a "wonderful big old house." If she went out the front door, she was on the street. But if she went out the back door, she found a special world that sparked her imagination. It was a world of fruit trees, animals and a river full of life: herons, fish, bullfrogs, and turtles. Alma Flor Ada says that she writes to share some of the feelings she had as a child: "the joy, the excitement, the surprise." She says that seeing her books in the hands of a child is one of her greatest joys.

Born in Alicante, Spain, F. Isabel Campoy is a scholar devoted to the study of language acquisition, a field in which she started publishing in 1973 after obtaining degrees from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Reading University in England and UCLA in the United States. About herself she says, “From my mother I inherited a robust pride in my roots, a wealth of folklore through her storytelling and sayings and an abundant sense of humor. From my father, the passion for learning and the art of teaching.”

These events are primarily sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Education and the Nebraska Humanities Council. Additional support for this project comes from Omaha Public Library, Omaha Public Schools and the Omaha Family Literacy Partnership.

For more information on Omaha Public Library programs, visit omahapubliclibrary.org.

Contact:
Linda Trout, 402-444-4838, ltrout@omahapubliclibrary.org