Lalo Loves to Help
Cecilia Velástegui
9780990671343
40 pages
Libros Publishing LLC
Overview
Lalo, a yellow-naped Amazonian parrot speaks many languages and loves to sing opera. He lives a happy life, and is always ready to help everyone and everything living in the Ecuadorian rainforest.On the day of an opera, Lalo is summoned downriver to translate the words of an elderly lady. Could this be the forgotten language of the Teteté people?Will Lalo and his friends rise to the occasion––or will the ancient songs of the Ecuadorian Amazon be lost forever?Message: Kindness––and second language are helpful.
Author Bio
Cecilia Velástegui, M.S. Ed., is known as the Fabulous Fableisttm for her award-winning bilingual fables. Her fable Olinguito Speaks Up (2013) was awarded Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book and Best Educational Children’s Picture Book by the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, the oldest and largest Hispanic book awards in the nation.She has presented her fables on stage at the 2013 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of Natural History, the Los Angeles Zoo, and the Orange County Children’s Book Festival, among others.
