Zonia's Rain Forest

Name: Zonia's Rain Forest
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Juana Martinez-Neal
ISBN: 9781666537680

Author: Juana Martinez-Neal

Narrator: Sisa Quispe, Cinthya Gonzales Perez

Unabridged: 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/26/2021

Categories: Children's Fiction, Regional Stories, Science & Nature Stories, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Zonia’s home is the Amazon rain forest, where it is always green and full of life. Every morning, the rain forest calls to Zonia, and every morning, she answers. She visits the sloth family, greets the giant anteater, and runs with the speedy jaguar. But one morning, the rain forest calls to her in a troubled voice. How will Zonia answer? Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medal-winning author-illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal explores the wonders of the rain forest with Zonia, an Asháninka girl, in her joyful outdoor adventures.

About Juana Martinez-Neal

Juana Martinez-Neal is the daughter and granddaughter of painters. She started her story in Lima, Peru, and then moved to the United States. The winner of a 2018 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award for La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya, she continues to write the story of her life day-by-day. She currently resides in Arizona with her husband and three children.

About Sisa Quispe

Sisa Quispe is a multilingual Indigenous Quechua-Aymara artist who started her career as an accountant. After living in Peru and moving to New York City, she enjoys breaking stereotypes and educating society on Native Americans through her storytelling.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Agnė on April 29, 2021

Zonia's Rain Forest is a sweet picturebook about an Asháninka girl's day of play in the rain forest of Peru with an informative, eye-opening back matter. Juana Martinez-Neal's illustrations, made on handmade banana bark paper, are cute, playful, and colorful, albeit not very realistic (e.g., Zonia ri......more

Goodreads review by Panda on June 14, 2021

This picture book has gorgeous, well-designed illustrations and teaches people about deforestation in the Amazon, but it fell flat for me as a story. The book addresses Zonia's daily activities in a very fanciful way, including her direct interactions with predatory animals that would be a threat to......more

Goodreads review by Alex on April 19, 2021

Zonia, a young Asháninka living in the Peruvian Amazon's rain forest. Every morning, the rain forest beckons Zonia and she loves to walk through it, and visit all her old and new friends living there, accompanied by a blue morpho butterfly. As she makes her rounds, Zonia greets a wide variety of cre......more

Quotes

This book isn’t just about the Peruvian Amazon, it literally is the Peruvian Amazon . . . But what truly makes it stand out is its message of self-determination: These Indigenous people, Martinez-Neal has written, are “not saved but take charge."