books about animals | Roaming Rosie

That’s right!

I’ve got a new book series coming out! The first title is one you maaaay have seen before, if you’re a long-time follower of this blog. It’s a re-edited, re-formatted, re-illustrated and completely redone AN AFRICAN ANIMAL ADVENTURE!

The subtitle tells it all: A Tongue-Twisting ABC Tale. The book features fun and colorful illustrations of African animals for each letter of the alphabet, alongside silly, rhyming poems.

And that’s just the first book in the series!

After that, I’ll be releasing an activity workbook to practice handwriting alongside of mazes, dot-to-dots, and more. And THEN there will be more storybooks and activity books for other concepts: shapes, numbers, seasons, etc. Each of these concept books will feature animals from a different region of the world.

These educational books and their matching activity books are created to introduce young children to basic concepts in an entertaining way.

I’m really excited about the re-launch of this book and the launch of the series. It’s a really amazing project to be working on and I’m happy I get to share it with all of you.

Another fun part of this launch is that I’m creating a Launch Team to gather together people who would like a FREE BOOK in exchange for an honest review.

This will allow you to get the first book in the series as an eBook for free – plus get entered to win an autographed hardcover!

Simply enter your info here and I’ll email your book:

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE LAUNCH TEAM!

The release date for AN AFRICAN ANIMAL ADVENTURE is 9/8/24, so the free book will be emailed out a week ahead of that.

THANK YOU for following along with me on my Roaming Rosie journey, and if you’d like to check out all of the cool stuff going on over at my author blog, please visit me at RosemaryLynnBooks.com.

Happy Reading!

I recently picked up Marta Big & Small, written by Jen Arena and illustrated by Angela Dominguez, and I just had to share it.

This bilingual book is wonderful not only for the understated yet adorable illustrations, but also because of the lyrical flow to the text.

As we follow Marta through the story, she is compared to various animals, so we are practicing opposites. The comparisons are made in both English and Spanish, but in a way that sounds poetic as opposed to a school lesson.

For example, “To an elephant, Marta is pequeña. Small, very small.”

This makes it fun to read while also being educational. And my kids love to ask me how to say things in Spanish, so to have these words presented like this is something I can really appreciate.

There is also a spread where we learn the Spanish words for the animals. For example, Marta is “fast like el caballo.”

I am also completely enchanted by the female-positive message at the end. She is called “clever, very clever, like una niña.” This is a fantastic way to end the tale that includes her outsmarting a snake who though she looked “sabrosa” or “tasty.”

Plus, we get another spread which lists the words in the book with the Spanish and English words side by side, as a glossary.

Fun to read and educational! Can’t beat that.

Happy Reading!

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