Monica Brown's new picture book, Waiting for the Biblioburro, takes readers on a journey to a small village in South America where a little girl named Ana has only one book to her name. She reads her cuento, or story, over and over until one day a librarian, with the help of his two burros, Alfa and Beto, brings dozens of books to her town . Sprinkled throughout with spanish words, this story is based on the author's experience in Columbia getting to know a traveling librarian.
Share this with your budding bibliophiles and make sure to check out the last page containing spanish definitions and a bit about real traveling librarians all over the world. I felt very humbled and grateful that I don't spend my days in a saddle smelling of donkey.
