Pura Belpré Honor Award for Illustration in 1996 and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award in 1997. Carmen Lomas Garza shares her personal memories of growing up in her hometown of Kingsville, Texas and her illustrations portray scenes of colorful, dynamic, and symbolic images specific to life in a Mexican-American family. The narrative is told as first person reflections, with the main character represented as the author’s childhood self, spanning the ages five to twelve years old
Introduction and Back ground of the study Children all over the world grow up in a variety of family structures and single-parent families have become very common. They are created through divorce, births outside of marriage, death of a spouse and to some extent through rape. These family transitions are stressful for children and the negative effects of these accumulate (Cherlin et al 1991; Wu and Martinson 1993; Wu 1996) as cited by Raley (2006). Children raised by single divorced parents have