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Inside the books, there are my drawings/illustrations. Before my drawings, here is something when did the book started: When I visit Mission San Juan Capistrano, I am taking pictures and exploring around the landmark in Southern California. Suddenly, I saw the swallows are in the mission. I heard some people say for every year, the swallows have migrated from the south to migrated to the north. Some other swallows made a new home on the barn, houses, and the other places around your neighborhood. There are some of the reasons why the swallows chose a mission.
When I got home in Rancho Mirage, I went to the library to study the missions and the swallows. I am taking notes to puzzle it for the story. It gives me an idea. I wrote down the book and the drawings. I pick some the characters for the stories and some of it had something to do my childhood. For example, the rooster was the biggest bully and it chasing me and never stops teasing me, the red rattlesnake was inside my treehouse and that scares me, and my favorite classic movie "Birdman of Alcatraz." It inspires me to write the book and it took me for five months to make an order of the story and editing. I hope you will enjoy my book.
About the author
My name is Jon E. Cruz (Jonathan Enrique Cruz). I was born in Crescent City, California on December 9, 1989. In my childhood, I had suffered a disorder called Broca's Aphasia. Broca's Aphasia is a stroke that injures the frontal regions of the left hemisphere-the part of the brain that is important for putting words together to form complete sentences-which can give rise to different kinds of language problems. My speech may only include important content words and leave out insignificant words, like "the". This is known as "telegraphic speech". The person may still be understood, but sentences will not be grammatically correct. In very severe forms of Expressive Aphasia, a person may only speak using single word utterances.
Every doctor and clinic tried to find a cure for me, but there was no cure or medicine. There is one medicine I use though, the National Geographic magazine. I could not read when I was very young, but I did understand the pictures from around the world. My favorites are fantasy and science fiction films and books. It makes me very excited to read them.
I graduated from school in June 2008, I went to the College of the Desert to study early childhood education and English in 2013-present. Being a writer is like you are making art. An art is how you feel, expressive, and emotions. I hope you too become a writer... one day soon.
