Dear Diana: Travel with Me to Costa Rica

By Margaret C. Collier and Mary T. Cook

As seen through this collage of favorite pictures, you can see that Costa Rica represents a myriad of colors and shapes. The animals and the plant life present a feast to the eyes with their colorations. As a rainforest area, it is unique in its terrain and topography. As part of the Ring of Fire on its Pacific coastline, it is still subject to active volcanic activity, including earthquakes and lava flows.

Many tourists come to visit Arenal and other active volcanoes and to be part of the ecotourism movement.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479737116

Margaret C. Collier

Margaret C. Collier is a retired educator living in Orlando, Florida, with her husband and her springer spaniel, Carly. Her youngest son is with the army, now in Germany, and her oldest son is with the air force, living in Colorado Springs with his wife, Lindsey. Her daughter and son-in-law, Robert, are living in Pennsylvania. She holds a BA degree in art education from the Maryland Institute of Art, an MA in elementary education and special education from Marshall University and the College of Graduate Studies in Charleston, West Virginia, and an educational specialist degree in Educational Administration from the University of Florida. Travel has become her passion, and she has found the need to share this with geography students who may enjoy a more personal tribute to travel. This is the fifth book in a series of high interest, low-vocabulary-level reading books for geography that will focus on the countries, cities, and geographical regions she has seen and will see in the future. Mary T. Cook is an educator and freelance illustrator. She holds a BS degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a master’s degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her first children’s book, based on a real-life experience by a family member, is titled “The Moose at the Bus Stop.” It was published March of 2013 by Guardian Angel Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri. Her newest book, “Emma McKenna’s Ice Cream Dilemma,” is due out in the spring of 2014. She lives in Oveido, Florida, with her husband, two boxers and a Scottish terrier. Her daughter and her family live in Chicago, Illinois, son and daughter-in-law in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the oldest son in Oveido area. Mrs. Collier and Mrs. Cook, former teachers of the year, have collaborated as educators for over twenty-five years, presenting national-level workshops in the infusing of the arts into social studies. Both educators are now publishing a series of high-interest social studies themed books, which address the needs of low-level readers. They have both worked for schools in Seminole County, Florida, where classes are academically and culturally diverse.

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Copyright © 2012 by Margaret C. Collier. 124605-COLL

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4797-3709-3

Hardcover 978-1-4797-3710-9

eBook 978-1-4797-3711-6

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Travel With Me

To Costa Rica

By Margaret C. Collier

Illustrated by Mary T. Cook

Marco Polo the peguin, seen periodically in this book,

is an original creation by Mary T. Cook.

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This book is dedicated to friends and family as well as the Toyota Motor Corporation

who gave me the opportunity to visit and study Costa Rica.

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As seen through this collage of favorite pictures, you can see that Costa Rica represents a myriad of colors and shapes.