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Sunflower Girl always knew her grandmother(Masani) could talk to the animals who lived around them on the Navajo Reservation. When Sunflower Girl was a small child she and her grandmother went to visit some relatives who lived a few miles away. While they were walking they were charged by an angry bull and had to climb a tree to escape. Read more

About Ginny Sparks

Ginny Sparks, who is the illustrator as well as the author of The Adventures of Sunflower Girl - Grandmother and the Bull, is a full blood Navajo woman. She is in her mid-fifties and is a Registered Nurse. She was born on the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona and did not speak English until she was seven years old. She is planning a series of Sunflower Girl books based on real life experiences she had while growing up on the reservation in the 1950’s and 60’s.
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Excerpt from the Book

My mother and grandmother gave me a very special Navajo name. I was born early one fall morning under the open sky. Read more

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