About this series
Every morning, Penny and her pod of pelicans fly from their nests to the tidepools to catch fish. Sometimes, while her family focuses on fishing, Penny glides on the hot air that swoops up from the beach. One day, while riding the thermals, Penny becomes separated from her family. Can she find her pod and get back home before the sun goes down? Find out in this second book in the bilingual children's series, Tropical Tales.
Cada mañana, Penny y su grupo de pelícanos vuelan desde sus nidos hasta las pozas que deja la marea para atrapar peces. A veces, mientras su familia se concentra en la pesca, Penny se desliza en el aire caliente que sube desde la playa. Un día, mientras volaba en las corrientes térmicas, Penny se separa de su familia. ¿Podrá encontrar su grupo y volver a casa antes de que se ponga el sol? Descúbrelo en este segundo libro de la serie bilingüe para niños, Cuentos tropicales.
Titles in the series (2)
- Felipe the Frog Learns to Swim: La rana Felipe aprende a nadar: Tropical Tales, #1
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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.
- Penny the Pelican Finds Her Way Home: Tropical Tales, #2
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Every morning, Penny and her pod of pelicans fly from their nests to the tidepools to catch fish. Sometimes, while her family focuses on fishing, Penny glides on the hot air that swoops up from the beach. One day, while riding the thermals, Penny becomes separated from her family. Can she find her pod and get back home before the sun goes down? Find out in this second book in the bilingual children's series, Tropical Tales. Cada mañana, Penny y su grupo de pelícanos vuelan desde sus nidos hasta las pozas que deja la marea para atrapar peces. A veces, mientras su familia se concentra en la pesca, Penny se desliza en el aire caliente que sube desde la playa. Un día, mientras volaba en las corrientes térmicas, Penny se separa de su familia. ¿Podrá encontrar su grupo y volver a casa antes de que se ponga el sol? Descúbrelo en este segundo libro de la serie bilingüe para niños, Cuentos tropicales.
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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