A young girl learns to cope with her grandmother\u2019s death when she discovers memories can help keep loved ones alive in this powerful picture book from Afro-Dominican storyteller Sili Recio and her daughter Elena.<\/p>\n
Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome mother\/daughter author duo\u00a0Sili Recio and Elena Djome Lawrence to the bookstore for an evening celebrating their gorgeous picture book\u00a0The Other Side of the Garden.<\/p>\n
More about\u00a0The Other Side of the Garden<\/p>\n
A young girl and her mother visit her grandmother\u2019s old garden, but things are different. A fence stands between them and Abuela\u2019s old blue house, and when the young girl calls out to her, Abuela no longer answers.<\/p>\n
With each visit to the garden, it becomes clear that Abuela won\u2019t be coming back. All that\u2019s left are memories of picking flowers, dancing in the wind, and running into Abuela\u2019s warm embrace. Author Sili Recio and her daughter, Elena, draw on Elena\u2019s own grief journey after her abuela\u2019s passing to help young readers not only navigate loss, but also recognize that remembering loved ones who\u2019ve gone means they never really leave us.<\/p>\n
Sili Recio\u00a0has been calling herself a writer since she won a trophy in a poetry contest in the sixth grade. She is an Afro-Dominican storyteller, disruptor, and Mami. Sili earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Rollins College. She entered the world of social media via her blog in 2010 and has never looked back. Sili lives in Florida with her daughter, the Frog Princess, and tries not to pass on her love of caf\u00e9 con leche to her child. She is failing. You can visit her at SiliRecio.com.<\/p>\n
Elena Djome Lawrence is an artist and violinist who excels in both her schoolwork and creative projects. Her literary debut picture book The Other Side of the Garden was inspired by a story she shared with her mother when she was nine years old. Her imaginative telling of her own grief serves as the foundation of the book, offering inspiration to those navigating their own journeys of loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young girl learns to cope with her grandmother\u2019s death when she discovers memories can help keep loved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-210612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}