Howl of the Mission Owl

It’s the California Gold Rush and owl is determined to find out WHO nabbed the gold nugget. Message: Harmony is golden.

Cecilia Velástegui, M.S. Ed., is known as the Fabulous FableistTM for her award-winning bilingual fables. Her fable Olinguito Speaks Up (2013) was awarded Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book and Best Educational Children’s Picture Book by the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, the country’s oldest and largest Hispanic book awards. Her adult fiction titles also have received numerous literary awards. She has presented her fables on stage at the 2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of Natural History, and the Orange County Children’s Book Festival, among others. Cecilia lives in Southern California with her family and eleven pets.