Salon 21

Book "Rosaura en bicicleta"

Title: "Rosaura en bicicleta"
Written by Daniel Barbot
Illustrations by Morella Fuenmayor
Published by Ediciones Ekaré, 1990.

Where to find this book?
Library: I did not find any library reference in the Palo Alto library catalog.  I still need to find out if there is a copy at the Escondido School library.
Stores:  This book can be ordered in English at both Kepler's and  Amazon.com and in Spanish at  Amazon.com

Podcast:   Click here to listen the story
Time: 5min 12sec.
Produced and narrated by José Arocha (Isabela's dad).  Produced with: Audacity, a free and cross-platform sound editor.  Sounds effects can be found at the website of The FreeSound project.

Reviews:
This is a story that Isabela and I enjoy very much reading.  Find below the reviews taken from both Kepler's books and Amazon sites:

• Señora Amelia loves animals. In this lively and cheery story from Venezuela, you will see to what lengths she will go in order to grant her handsome hen Rosaura a birthday wish. 
• This story could be classified as Magic Realism for Kids, literary style very common in Latin America. It is a very funny story that by the way, gives a very good idea of the place in which it takes place, a small town in Venezuela.

More reviews at Amazon.com

About Salon21

Hi all,

This blog serves as a means to share book readings among the kids and parents of Salon 21 at Escondido.  I have added below a podcast of the book my daughter Isabela brought from the Escondido library this week called "Somos lobos" as a first sample.  The motivation of this blog is to contribute in the promotion of spanish reading in our children.  The next child taking one of these books from the library will be able to listen a spanish-speaking voice read the story and add her/his own as well.

I invite you to add to this podcast/blog your own and your children's readings and share them with the others in Salon 21.  I believe it would be fun for them to listen to each other tell their versions of the stories.   Please email me at jose.arocha@gmail.com to send you an invitation to join as author and start adding your posts and podcasts.  If you need help creating the podcasts, I will be happy to assist you.

You can subscribe to the updates of this blog/podcast via email, iTunes or any other similar podcast reader (podcatcher).  Please let me know if this is helpful and how you would like to shape the idea to achieve its purpose better.

Cheers,
Jose Arocha
(father of Isabela)

PS. Note on copyrights: The books we read may be protected by copyrights law. I will find out if this will be an issue in pursuing this initiative.

Book "Somos Lobos"

Title: Somos Lobos
Authors: Melinda Julietta & Lucia Guarnotta
Language: Spanish
Publisher: Publicaciones CITEM
Library: Escondido School library
Code: E Jul (yellow tag)

Reading by: José Arocha (father of Isabela, Salon 21). Sep 2006.

Audio: somoslobos.mp3

Back cover:

EN ESTA MARAVILLOSA HISTORIA, dos jóvenes cachorros de lobo exploran su nuevo mundo con el Tío Lobo. Él les enseña lo que es ser lobos y su madre está muy orgullosa de ellos.  Aprenden a observar, a escuchar, a viajar y cazar.  Pero lo más importante de todo es que aprenden sobre la manada y que forman parte de una familia.
Sus aventuras cobran vida con unas ilustraciones maravillosamente detalladas.  Los lectores de cualquier edad seguramente van a disfrutar y a atesorar Somos lobos durante muchos años.