Cool Critters of the Ice Age in Spanish
Happy, happy, happy Tuesday, people! Anybody want to celebrate? I do cause I have some exciting news. My latest co-authored book, Cool Critters of the Ice Age, which was released not quite a year ago, just came out in Spanish. Yay!
It feels strange and yet so very rewarding to have written a book and not even be able to read it. (Yikes!) I've only held the prototype of the Spanish edition and that was a couple months back so to be able to look it up on Amazon and smile at it today was pretty cool.
We (my adopted parents and I) wrote the book two years ago during a very cold January. It was the perfect weather for writing a book about ice and snow. I'm currently looking out the window at muddy hay fields and soggy roads and I'm glad we didn't write the book in the 37 degree weather that we're having right now.
I learned so much while we were writing this book. My adopted parents did the research and then we worked together at putting it into a readable and interesting format. This is my only nonfiction book, but it made me want to write more like it.
In the book we explore really amazing animals such as Baluchitherium (now one of my favorite words to say) who was the largest land mammal in the world and was huge. And Andrewsarchus which is pretty crazy because they've only ever found one of his skulls. (I tried calling my little brother "Andrewsarchus" but he didn't like it for some reason. I'll probably use the name for one of my characters someday.) There's also Glyptodon who was an armadillo like critter the size of a small car. I think I would have enjoyed riding on one of those...
Harry the Cave Bear was originally only in the book a couple of times, but after a lot of fun brainstorming we decided he would be a great sidekick to my adopted dad and so we included him several more times. That was one of the most fun parts of the writing process.
You can find the Spanish Edition of the book here and the English Edition here. I hope y'all have a great day and I'm glad I could share my exciting news with y'all.
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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to have a book you wrote but not be able to read it?
It feels strange and yet so very rewarding to have written a book and not even be able to read it. (Yikes!) I've only held the prototype of the Spanish edition and that was a couple months back so to be able to look it up on Amazon and smile at it today was pretty cool.
We (my adopted parents and I) wrote the book two years ago during a very cold January. It was the perfect weather for writing a book about ice and snow. I'm currently looking out the window at muddy hay fields and soggy roads and I'm glad we didn't write the book in the 37 degree weather that we're having right now.
I learned so much while we were writing this book. My adopted parents did the research and then we worked together at putting it into a readable and interesting format. This is my only nonfiction book, but it made me want to write more like it.
In the book we explore really amazing animals such as Baluchitherium (now one of my favorite words to say) who was the largest land mammal in the world and was huge. And Andrewsarchus which is pretty crazy because they've only ever found one of his skulls. (I tried calling my little brother "Andrewsarchus" but he didn't like it for some reason. I'll probably use the name for one of my characters someday.) There's also Glyptodon who was an armadillo like critter the size of a small car. I think I would have enjoyed riding on one of those...
Harry the Cave Bear was originally only in the book a couple of times, but after a lot of fun brainstorming we decided he would be a great sidekick to my adopted dad and so we included him several more times. That was one of the most fun parts of the writing process.
You can find the Spanish Edition of the book here and the English Edition here. I hope y'all have a great day and I'm glad I could share my exciting news with y'all.
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Have you ever imagined what it would be like to have a book you wrote but not be able to read it?
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