La Noche Antes de Mi Cumpleaños

In rhyming text based on "The Night Before Christmas," a child is filled with excitement and anticipation while helping with preparations for the next day's birthday party, and even an ice cream emergency cannot spoil the day.

Natasha Wing (www.natashawing.com) lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her first book with Grosset, The Night Before Easter, was published in 1999. Georgina Lázaro nació en Puerto Rico y es autora y traductora de libros infantiles. Ha escrito más de setenta libros y traducido alrededor de cincuenta, entre los que se incluyen obras de autores como Shel Silverstein, Margarita Engle, Juan Felipe Herrera y Dr. Seuss, de quien ha traducido más de diez libros, incluyendo el famoso The Cat in the Hat. Algunas de sus traducciones han sido reconocidas por Kirkus Reviews, Texas Star Reading y Junior Library Guild. Para Georgina, traducir rimas es una actividad retadora, entretenida y divertida, que la hace sentir como cuando de niña resolvía junto a su papá el crucigrama del periódico. Georgina Lázaro is a children’s book author and translator born in Puerto Rico. She has written more than seventy books and translated about fifty titles including works by Shel Silverstein, Margarita Engle, and Juan Felipe Herrera. She has also translated more than ten Dr. Seuss’s books, including the well-known The Cat in the Hat. Some of her translations have been praised by Kirkus Reviews, Texas Star Reading, and Junior Library Guild. For Georgina, translating rhymes is a challenging, enjoyable, and fun activity, which makes her feel as she felt when doing the newspaper crossword puzzles with her father as a child.