A New Book has Emerged

In the last three years I have dedicated part of my time to write a book for my daughter AmaRa.   What began as a story written on a pack of stapled papers is now a beautiful book that I would like to share with you.  The book describes a series of experiences that we had with my daughter when she found a Monarch butterfly.  Through the book the reader learns about the life of the monarch butterflies, enjoys beautiful paintings and photographs and much more. 

The book is the result of a great working team; the story was inspired by the love and curiosity of a girl, the text was created more by the love of a father than by a writer.  The paintings were the result of a coincidence;  a few years ago while walking  in downtown Bogotá, I bumped into Evelio Casa’s paintings; one of various painters that for many years have been dedicated to capturing the portraits of the public on 7th and 21st streets.  Five years later I came back looking for Evelio to ask him to make a few paintings for the book.  The result was the painting on the cover of the book, the girl and the butterfly before going to sleep, the two girls looking at the butterfly, among others.  Later on, Mr. Leoncio Amaya joined the team.  Leoncio is a painter that works at El Penon park in Cali.  With Leoncio we added the painting on the back cover, the three kids sharing the butterfly, the fire, among others.  Evelio and Leoncio mould their humbleness and love for art in each of the illustrations.  The final touch was added by Andres Borrero, a young entrepreneurial graphical designer, founder of ‘Fulano y Perencejo,’ a graphic design company based in Cali, Colombia.  Andres brought warm and delicate details such as the butterfly next to the page numbers as well as the group of butterflies that divide the two languages, and more.  All these were joined by the comments of family and friends.

As the book was becoming a reality, the idea of publishing it and being able to help others, while I was helping myself, grew bigger.  After investigating I found that the regular way of publishing a book did not leave much room to donate.  This is why I decided to publish the book independently and donate part of the sales to education, health or environmental organizations.  $4 of each book will be donated to any of these organizations.  To select the recipient organization I rely on the good judgment of the buyer.  On the website the buyer is able to select from a list the organization he/she wants us to give the donation.  With this I invite school, museums, hospitals, etc., to join us. 

The organizations first have to register here. We reserve the right to select the organizations based on the above definition.

Finally, to continue the idea of helping, in this case the environment, I decided to print the book on recycled paper even though it increased the cost of production considerably.

The book is bilingual, Spanish and English, and soon will be in Korean, Chinese, German, Swahili and other languages.

I hope that just as I enjoyed putting together this project, you enjoy reading it.

Thanks for being part of this dream.
Diego H. Pedreros

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