EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — El Paso educator and author Jaime Sanchez Gallegos set out to write a children’s book that is very much about El Paso and who we are as El Pasoans.
His new book, “Reaching for the Star,” features an illustrated El Paso sunset and the Star on the Mountain on the front cover. The book also features as its two protagonists, two local kids who display their bilingual language skills when they go on an adventure that is truly unique to the Sun City.
The book is also written in both English and Spanish.
“It is about two kids from El Paso, two typical kids — 11 or 12 years old — that like anybody else in El Paso, in the evening, you can see that big old Star on the Mountain, and their curiosity piques,” said Sanchez Gallegos, who has been an educator for about 20 years and currently works for a local school district as an administrator…