Books with author David Schmidt

A collection of short stories for adults, baby boomers, and children. Suitable for children of all ages, even the child inside all of us.These stories are a collection of events that took place in the life of the author in the middle 1950's. Growing up long before computers, cell phones, video games, or cable TV. It was a time when kids used their imagination and determination to have fun.

2013 Pura Belpre Award for IllustrationAs the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a former slave, Martin de Porres was born into extreme poverty. Even so, his mother begged the church fathers to allow him into the priesthood. Instead, Martin was accepted as a servant boy. But soon, the young man was performing miracles. Rumors began to fly around the city of a strange mulatto boy with healing hands, who gave first to the people of the barrios. Martin continued to serve in the church, until he was finally received by the Dominican Order, no longer called the worthless son of a slave, but rather a saint and the rose in the desert.