What Anna Loves
Andra Simmons is a fourth-generation Californian. A former teacher, she lives in West Covina, where she watches over her family s one-hundred-year-old homestead, The Hurst Ranch Historical Center. What Anna Loves is her second picture book. About the illustrator Though she didn t grow up on a farm, Gina Capaldi remembers bicycling through the orange groves of the San Fernando Valley in southern  California. She studied fine arts and illustration at Pepperdine University, Pitzer College, and the Art Center College of Design. She lives in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.