Zaira and the Dolphins | TheBookSeekers

Zaira and the Dolphins


, ,

No. of pages 32

Published: 2012

Great for age 7-10 years

Add this book to your 'I want to read' list!

By clicking here you can add this book to your favourites list. If it is in your School Library it will show up on your account page in colour and you'll be able to download it from there. If it isn't in your school library it will still show up but in grey - that will tell us that maybe it is a book we should add to your school library, and will also remind you to read it if you find it somewhere else!

Winner at the 2012 Living Now Book Awards. Imagination flies free in this fun, entertaining, and sleepy time picture book for young, creative kids seeing the world in ways most of us cannot even imagine.Zaira is a little girl who cant stop imagining. She sees the world with such vivid colors, dreamlike shapes, that everyone fins it difficult to believe her. Her imagination soon leads her to meet some very special friends in a fountain, right in the middle of the town square, she sees a group of dolphins playing in the water.Everyday she goes by the fountain to say hi, but one day the dolphins werent there. To her distress, the fountain was empty. You are so dreamy, Zaira. Dolphins doesnt exist, said some children who were playing by the fountain. At that very instant, a magic fairy appeared and rescued Zaira, bringing her the hopes and dreams shed lost.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book has been graded for interest at 4 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2012 by Cuento de Luz SL .

Susanna Isern is an award-winning children's books author whose work has been translated into more than nine languages. She is the author of The Winter Train, Bear Wants to Fly, What Are You Scared of Little Mouse? (Silver Medal at the 2015 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards) and The Magic Ball of Wool (Silver Medal at the 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards) among many other children's books. Daniel Montero Galan was born in 1981 in Madrid, and has illustrated over a dozen books. Jon Brokenbrow is an award winning translator with more than 60 children's books translated from Spanish - English. Winner of 2015 IPPY Award for Children's Picture Books with translation of Cyparissus by Marta Sanmamed, and winner of 2013/2014 International Latino Book Awards for Best Translator. La galardonada ilustradora Cha Coco naci y vive en Shanghai, China.

 

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Living Now Book Award
This book was recognised by the Living now Book Award.

"She created a bright, whimsical, and colorful world for Zaira and her imaginary friends. Sometimes they were larger than life and helped illustrate Zaira's fantastic view of the world." --Once Upon a Book

 

"A fun book for bathtime." --Write Wild blog