The Scholastic Publishing bookmobile inside the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center at the National Latino family Expo this past Sunday where I did my presentation on illustrating Raining Popcorn Media's "Milagro de Monterrey" book.
This bus, which is sponsored by Scholastic Publishing and staffed mostly by volunteers from the teaching community, travels around the San Antonio area two to three times a week distributing free books to school-age children. 
That's me inside the bus in the middle of my presentation. The boxes that surround me are filled with the free books for the kids. They also provide a space for arts and crafts too. Amazing. It was cozy in there but the kids and grownups were great and I had my best presentation yet. I wished I had video taped it.
When I do these presentations I bring along as much eye candy for the kids to look at. It's difficult to see from the photo but I had several stacks of sketches, paintings, various versions of the cover and text portion of the book, paints, brushes and palette. Space was extremely limited so most of what I had was tucked under my chair, behind my chair and on the boxes around me. Oh, and the photos are courtesy of Art Avila, half of the big enchilada ( Lisa is the other) at Raining Popcorn. Thank you Art and Lisa for making me a part of the event.
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