Operation Pedro Pan: Christina Gonzalez discusses the history behind her novel.

Click the picture above to hear YA author Christina Gonzalez tell my class about the history behind The Red Umbrella.  This is a really interesting, little shared, piece of American history: Operation Pedro Pan--the U.S. government assists Cuban families save 14,000 children from the grip of the Communist Revolution.

YA author Christina Gonzalez (The Red Umbrella)

Christina Gonzalez spoke to my class yesterday (March 10th, 2011) about several topics.  Here she discusses how she created the title for her YA novel  The Red Umbrella  and the process of titling a work in general.

Click the image below to begin the video from our class.