 Dr. Camilo Cruz’s new book Once Upon a Cow for Teens: No limits! No Excuses! Written with his sixteen year old son, Richard, this book follows the success of the original version, La Vaca (Once upon a Cow), written in Spanish and translated to fifteen languages, with over one million copies in print.
In this life-changing metaphor, the cow represents every excuse, fear, justification, and false belief that keeps us from living the kind of life we truly want and deserve. Through an array of real-life stories, everyday school experiences and conflicting emotions and situations, this book confronts some of the toughest challenges teens face today; topics such as career choices, peer pressure, dealing with parent’s divorce, drugs, sexuality, depression, bullying and even suicide. |
The amazing story of Gardner’s life was published as an autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness, (Amistad/Harper Collins) in May 2006, and became a New York Times and Washington Post #1 bestseller. In paperback, the book spent over twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into fourteen languages. Gardner was also the inspiration for the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness,” released by Columbia Pictures in December 2006. The movie is the #2 all-time domestic grossing drama. Will Smith starred as Gardner and received Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for his performance. Gardner was an associate producer on the film.
