Language Notes
Text: Spanish (translation)
Original Language: English
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About the Author
Deborah Nourse Lattimore is the author-illustrator of many popular children's books, including
The Dragon's Robe, which won the PEN Center USA West Award in Children's Literature. Ms. Lattimore lives in Los Angeles, California.
Born in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, she became a writer when her daughter started asking questions. Aida wrote ONCE UPON A TIME...A BODY to answer them. It is the story of the human body, and how all its parts work together to keep you healthy. The book was a best-seller. Up to now there were five editions in Spanish, one in French, and one in Dutch. She has now twenty one published books of poems and short stories, besides more than thirty five books published for the educational market, mostly of short stories and poems. Three of her books were chosen by the Ministeries of Education in Argentina and Peru, as mandatory reading for children: Habia una vez un cuerpo, Me lo dijo un indio viejo, and Yo y los demas. The latter was one of the winners of the bid called by the Ministery of Education of Peru, for programs funded by the World Bank.
She gives lectures and workshops, teaching children and teachers how to write poems and short stories, and how to become a good reader. She is a well known translator of childrens books . She has translated into Spanish Puss in Boots directly from the first edition in French, of 1698, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax and Oh, the places you'll go!, by Dr. Seuss, and Why God chose the Dove, by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, among more then two hundred other books.
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