the illustrator is a woman named gigi morales. and she was originally from mexico, and she now lives in california. and, you know, interestingly -- >> mexico. >> mexico, si. verdad. she is, her picture is -- she's a curly-haired woman who looks a little bit like a skinnier version of me, that's what i think. [laughter] and when i, when i saw her illustrations, i felt so amazed and so grateful. i felt so connected to her because they were exactly what i had seen in my mind. but i did not have the ability to take what was in my head and to put it down on paper. so i was grateful that an artist like her was willing to bring pictures to my story. and she is, i think, pretty magical. and she took stuff from her own childhood, too, like that little doll when there's a boy and he's born in a stalk of corn, and the great grandmother helps him to walk. and then she goes up to the moon, the dog somedays to protect -- stays to protect him. well, that's an aztec dog that comes from her own childhood stories. so, yeah. but i think her pictures

so you see in the beginning gigi morales who wrote the illustration, she's very clever. so here tell me, kids, this is the moon from the earth's point of view, right? now look at the back. has it changed? >> yes. >> what is it now? >> the moon -- [inaudible] i mean -- >> that's right. the earth from the moon's point of view. so the idea is sometimes we need to flip it, we need to make sure that we see things from more than one point of view. because we can't understand things in the world if we're only looking from one point of view. as a teacher do you know what i get my students to do sometimes? you guy know about some current events, some things that are happening in the world. do you read the newspaper yet? is. [inaudible conversations] >> well, you will. so one of the things i have my high school kids do because i'm a high school teacher is i get them to go look at english-language newspapers from all over the world. and you can see how in be each case -- in each case the stories are written a little differently. and in order to really know a stronger, deeper truth