AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
Roni's wish: that her stories be available to children, families, schools and libraries everywhere.... to help build bridges of communication, as well as intergenerational and intercultural acceptance amongst all peoples through literacy.

She also spends some of her time, as a consultant, presenting cultural awareness and diversity appreciation workshops, in connection with her writing.

Her dual language books published by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum are:

My Nana's Remedies/Los remedios de mi nana 6/02
"My Nana's Remedies could well become one of the first bilingual classics."
-Victoria Tester, author of Miracles of Sainted Earth

ONE BOOK ARIZONA AWARD WINNER - 2009

AMÉRICAS AWARD - 2008
Commended Title

Hip, Hip, Hooray, It's Monsoon Day!/¡Ajúa, ya llegó el chubasco! 7/07

SOUTHWEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - 2007
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