Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown

4-8)īrown (Side by Side/Lado a lado) and Parra (Gracias/Thanks) gently portray alifestyle 180 degrees from modern, technology-centric schooling. (author's note, glossary of Spanish terms) (Picture book. The book is perfect for read-alouds, with occasional, often onomatopoeic Spanish words such as 'quiquiriquí,' 'tacatac' and 'iii-aah' adding to the fun. This is a child-centered complement to Jeanette Winter's Biblioburro (2010), which focuses on Soriano.

Parra's colorful folk-style illustrations of acrylics on board bring Ana's real and imaginary worlds to life.

After she reads her library books, Ana writes her own story for the librarian and gives it to him upon his reappearance-and he makes it part of his biblioburro collection. When Ana suggests that someone write a book about the traveling library, he encourages her to complete this task herself. Besides loaning books to the children until his next visit, the unnamed man also reads them stories and teaches the younger children the alphabet. Everything changes when a traveling librarian and his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, arrive in the village. Although she uses her imagination to create fantastical bedtime tales for her brother, she really wants new books to read. She knows every word of the one book she owns. Inspired by Colombian librarian Luis Soriano BohÃ³rquez, Brown's latest tells of a little girl whose wish comes true when a librarian and two book-laden burros visit her remote village.Īna loves to read and spends all of her free time either reading alone or to her younger brother.

In Waiting for the Biblioburro (Tricycle Press/Random House Children's Books), author Monica Brown and illustrator John Parra craft a tale for kindergartners inspired by traveling librarian Luis Soriano who carries books to children in rural Columbia on his two donkeys. La premiada autora Monica Brown y el aclamado ilustrador Joe Cepeda se unen para crear éste impresionante tributo a dos de las personas mÃ§s influentes del siglo veinte. Inspired by the heroic efforts of real-life librarian Luis Soriano, award-winning picture book creators Monica Brown and John Parra introduce readers to the mobile library that journeys over mountains and through valleys to bring literacy and culture to rural Colombia, and to the children who wait for the BiblioBurro.Ī portion of the proceeds from sales of this book support Luis Soriano's BiblioBurro program. One morning, Ana wakes up to the clip-clop of hooves, and there before her, is the most wonderful sight: a traveling library resting on the backs of two burros-all the books a little girl could dream of, with enough stories to encourage her to create one of her own. But in her small village there are only a few books and she has read them all. She often makes them up to help her little brother fall asleep.

Waiting for the Biblioburro by Monica Brown