Cocoa’s Kissing

the work and its author

Lena has illustrated many magazines and books, such as My First Book of Words, and numerous Hello Readers for Scholastic Inc., including the book Dancing with Manatees, which has sold more than half a million copies in countries all over the world.

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An illustration in watercolor. This illustration is from a wonderful manuscript by Karen Rostoker Gruber. It is unpublished so far, but we are hoping to find the right house for it some day.

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