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Sherlock Dom
By (Author) Terry Catasus Jennings
Illustrated by Fatima Anaya
4
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
2nd February 2022
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
144
Width 130mm, Height 194mm, Spine 10mm
143g
Judy Moody meets the Diary of a Future President remake in this fourth story in a chapter book series featuring a young Cuban American girl who tries to find adventure based on the classic stories she read with her beloved abuela.
Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Stephs grandmother in Virginia, where Dom hopes they can continue to have a lot of fun adventures. As soon as they arrive, they find that Grans neighbors have lost their goat! There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite detective, Sherlock Holmesobserving the basics, using all her senses, and talking it through with her trusty friendto try and bring the little goat back home.
On September 11, 1961, Terry Catass Jennings landed in the United States after a short flight from Cuba. On September 12th, she was enrolled in seventh grade in an American school. Her family, including her father who had been jailed during the Bay of Pigs invasion, was now in a free country. The only catch for twelve-year-old Terry was that she could count in English and recite the days of the week and the months of the year, but not much more. Often being the only Cuban in her schooleven through collegeTerry knows what its like to be the new kid on the block. She is delighted to have the opportunity, with Definitely Dominguita, to portray a child of immigrants who is normalno different than her peersother than she loves the classics (like Jennings did as a child) and thinks Cuban food rules.
Born in the tiniest country of Central America, Fatima Anaya always wanted to craft stories celebrating the magic in the ordinary, but even before she could write, she started to illustrate every moment. This passion for drawing motivated her to achieve a BA in graphic design at Don Bosco University in El Salvador. Her inspiration comes from love, peace, childhood, and sometimes historical events.