Felipe the Frog Learns to Swim: La rana Felipe aprende a nadar: Tropical Tales, #1

By Mary Smathers

Felipe, a tree frog who doesn't know how to swim, is afraid of the water. His mother insists he take swimming lessons to stay safe in an upcoming storm. Will Felipe ever be comfortable in the water? Will he learn to swim before strong winds blow through his jungle home? Find out in this first book of the bilingual children's series, Tropical Tales.

 

Felipe, una rana que vive en los árboles y que no sabe nadar, le tiene miedo al agua. Su mamá insiste en que tome lecciones de natación para mantenerse a salvo en una tormenta que se avecina. ¿Se sentirá Felipe alguna vez cómodo en el agua? ¿Aprenderá a nadar antes de que los fuertes vientos azoten su hogar en la jungla? Descúbrelo en este primer libro de la serie infantil bilingüe, Cuentos Tropicales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: mks publishing
• Release date: Nov 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9780997855791

Mary Smathers

Mary Smathers grew up in Los Altos, California and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Latin American Studies. She earned a Master's degree in Education and another MA in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University. From 1983 to 2013, she worked in public schools throughout California as a high school teacher, administrator, teacher trainer, grant writer and educational entrepreneur, helping to found three education companies and a public charter school. Since that time, she has focused on writing, reporting for a bilingual, regional Costa Rican newspaper and publishing her first work of fiction, Fertile Soil: Stories of the California Dream, in 2016. In This Land of Plenty, her debut novel was published in July, 2020. She divides her time between California's Central Coast and the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, where she is at work chronicling the stories of subsequent generations in the Brennan/Castro family tree of In This Land of Plenty and developing a children's book series featuring tropical and jungle animals.

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