Up and Down the Andes

Summary of Book

This rhyming text takes readers from Lake Titicaca all the way to the city of Cusco for the highly popular Inti Raymi festival, celebrated in June each year.

Author Biography

In creating my picture books, I have combined my love of children's literature with my love of traveling to fascinating places. I hope through my series with Barefoot Books to introduce young readers to people and cultures that might be unfamiliar to them.

I also love 18th century history and enjoyed finding real people who plied the trades I wrote about in my Colonial series. One of the men, a miller named Isaac Keeler, had lived in my Connecticut town and when I wrote the story, I was living in a Keeler house a short distance from the mill.

I have four children and five grandsons, one step-granddaughter and one step- grandson, none of whom live close enough to suit me. I now live in Virginia with my husband, Bill, and my golden retriever, May.

Illustrator Biography

Aurélia Fronty is 36 years old. She has always drawn, surrounded by the colors and fabrics of her family universe. After her baccalaureate, she entered the Duperré School of Applied Arts , in Paris. She specializes in textile creation and design.

After her years of study, she worked for a few months at Christian Lacroix and started freelance as a textile designer and illustrator. After a few trips to Asia and Africa, she took out portraits and drawings from her notebooks, some of which will be exhibited at Bon Marché in Paris, at Ventilo and at L'île de la tortue in Paris, at Studio Peret in Barcelona, ​​at Loved in London. She also paints decorations for the windows of La bonne rename, the gallery L'île de la Tortue , and Bon Marché , in Paris, for Tomorrowland.in Japan, designs a collection of ephemeral salt dough tableware, widely acclaimed by the decoration press. Today, she continues her path and illustrates works for a large number of French and foreign publishers: Gautier-Languereau , Didier Jeunesse , Gallimard Jeunesse , le Rouergue , etc. She also creates drawings and declines her work as an illustrator and textile designer for Fragonard France and Djeco . She occasionally collaborates for the press and for events: Atmosphères , Maison française , Air France Magazine , Marie-Claire ,Maison Madame Figaro , Travel Curtain Rising , Literary Figaro , Filotéo , Astrapi , etc.