About the Author
Ellen Mayer is a researcher who studies the different ways in which families
help their children to learn and grow. She develops resources that families
and educators can use to promote family engagement in education. One such resource
is the Family Involvement Storybook Project—which
helps parents and teachers use storybooks with family involvement themes to
generate reflection, conversation, and action to support children's academic
success. Ellen holds two master's degrees in sociology and lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, with her husband and teenage son. Tomasito's Mother Comes
to School/La mamá de Tomasito visita la escuela, developed at Harvard
Family Research Project, is her first research-based children's book.
About the Illustrator
Joe Cepeda is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books. In
2002, he received the American Library Association's (ALA) Pura Belpré
Honor Book Award, given to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work
best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in a work
of literature for children and youth. Joe lives in Southern California with
his wife and young son. During his elementary school years in East Los Angeles,
he was challenged by language differences between his Spanish-speaking home
and his English-speaking school. But, like Tomasito, he benefited from having
a mother who strongly supported his education and was actively involved in his
school. To learn more about Joe Cepeda, visit
his website.
About the Translator
Esther Sarfatti has been translating children's books for over 10 years and
has worked in the publishing world since 1985. She has translated more than
100 books, including the popular Arthur series. Born in New York and brought
up in a trilingual home, Esther currently lives with her husband and son in
Madrid, Spain.
Storybook Funding
Tomasito's Mother Comes to School/La mamá de Tomasito visita la escuela
was made possible by a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, with additional
support from the Reading Is Fundamental/Coca-Cola
partnership, Reading Takes You Places. Harvard Family Research Project is grateful
for their support. The content of this publication is solely the responsibility
of Harvard Family Research Project and does not necessarily reflect the views
of funding organizations.
See a list of contributors to this storybook in
the author's acknowledgements.
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