![]() ![]() We stayed with different people - right? - at different people's houses. And along the way, we kept finding these really cool rocks, just finding them in nature, seeing them on the landscape. GONZALEZ: We went on a six-week, multistate road trip. ![]() SIMON: Xelena Gonzalez says the idea for "Where Wonder Grows" started while she and Adriana Garcia were on tour for their first book, "All Around Us." ![]() GARCIA: Life events and everything - yeah. GONZALEZ: Yeah, I'd be like, what? You're - you know, you're dating this person? Or, you know, you're moving? You know, those kind of - these. GARCIA: And it just didn't happen (laughter). ![]() Yeah, I think in the beginning when we started, we would set up a meeting, and we would try to get down to business. And we laugh a lot, and sometimes we walk together. We get together over tacos, and we usually talk about our lives. GARCIA: Well, it starts with tacos (laughter). It is the second book by Xelena Gonzalez and Adriana Garcia, which makes them a great team for our children's book series, Picture This. The words read, this is the place where wonder grows and stories blossom, where we gather our magic rocks and relics from nature. SIMON: The grandmother and the children spread out a purple blanket on the ground. And there's, like, a whole world in the things that we find in nature. I remember as a kid, like, picking up rocks and sand and roly-polies. Like, they just get it.ĪDRIANA GARCIA: 'Cause they're so cool (laughter). And they'll close their eyes, and they're so excited. But any time we've told kids when kids ask us what's your next book about and we say it's about rocks, they say, yes. And I think we feel a little pressed to explain more because we know there's this, like, elevator speech that's required that we should perfect. XELENA GONZALEZ: It's a funny thing because any time anyone in the industry has asked us what this book is about, we say it's about rocks and children's connection to nature and to their grandparents. The book is by two friends, the author Xelena Gonzalez and the illustrator Adriana Garcia. In the picture book "Where Wonder Grows," a woman takes her grandchildren to a special garden, where they discover crystals, seashells, meteorites and magical rocks. ![]()
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