Works - Translations

Title: Bodies are cool
Title in translation: Los cuerpos son geniales
Writer: Tyler Feder
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 13. 978-0593617502

Description:

This body positive picture book is a vibrant, joyful, and judgement-free celebration of every body shape and size.

My body, your body,
every different kind of body!
All of them are good bodies!
BODIES ARE COOL!

This heart-warming, inclusive book, filled with detailed and friendly illustration is a celebration of every kind of body that exists in the world. Through an empowering, rhythmic text that is perfect for reading aloud, little ones can explore various skin tones, body shapes, hair types, and more, in an accessible way that instills body positivity and confidence.

The picture book debut from talented author/illustrator Tyler Feder, whose inclusive artwork – full of warmth and humour – has earned her a large social media following through her brand, Roaring Softly.

Title: A Long Walk to Water (Linda Sue Park)
Translator: Aurora Humarán
ISBN: 0547577311

Description:

Cherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times best-selling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children who overcome mortal dangers to improve their lives and the lives of others.

A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the “lost boys” of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way. Includes an afterword by author Linda Sue Park and the real-life Salva Dut, on whom the novel is based, and who went on to found Water for South Sudan.

Title: The New Kid (The Carver Chronicles)
Title in translation: El niño nuevo
Writer: Karen English
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
ISBN: 978-0358251996

Description:

Gavin is sad that his friends next door are moving away, especially when he realizes that Harper, the biggest bully at Carver Elementary, is moving in! Meanwhile, competition at the school science fair is heating up, and Calvin must decide what to do when his data doesn’t prove his theory. Can Calvin avoid trouble with Harper and still win the science fair?

Gavin y sus amigos no saben bien qué pensar de Keops, su nuevo compañero de clase. Es indudable que no actúa como los otros niños ni se les parece… ¡y ellos sospechan que se ha robado la bici de Gavin! Mientras tanto, Myrtle, la tía abuela de Gavin, está nuevamente de visita, y Gavin está seguro de que se pondrá del lado de su hermana para mandonearlo todo el tiempo. ¿Sobrevivirá Gavin a la tía Myrtle? ¿Podrá entender qué es lo que realmente ocurre con el niño nuevo?

Title: The Last Communist Virgin
Title in translation: La última comunista virgen
Writer: Wang Ping
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Selva Canela
ISBN: 9789874778239

Description:

“Durante toda la mañana, el altavoz estuvo anunciando que los trabajadores se habían apoderado oficialmente de la escuela, que todos los estudiantes y los maestros debían regresar a la escuela para ser reeducados por la clase trabajadora”.

“En la ciudad del deseo, ser virgen era una broma, un pecado”.

Siete historias, independientes pero interconectadas, que son una ventana a las transformaciones de la cultura china y a la amarga vida del exilio. A través de una variedad de los personajes una niña que ve demasiado, un anciano que vuelve a su irreconocible patria, una virgen adaptándose a la metrópolis del pecado y de lugares desde la China de Mao a las actuales ciudades llenas de rascacielos, pasando por el Chinatown neoyorquino, estos cuentos recorren la historia moderna del gigante asiático.

Title: The New Kid
Title in translation: El niño nuevo
Writer: Karen English
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Clarion Books
ISBN: 9780358251996

Description:

Gavin is sad that his friends next door are moving away, especially when he realizes that Harper, the biggest bully at Carver Elementary, is moving in! Meanwhile, competition at the school science fair is heating up, and Calvin must decide what to do when his data doesn’t prove his theory. Can Calvin avoid trouble with Harper and still win the science fair?

Gavin y sus amigos no saben bien qué pensar de Keops, su nuevo compañero de clase. Es indudable que no actúa como los otros niños ni se les parece… ¡y ellos sospechan que se ha robado la bici de Gavin! Mientras tanto, Myrtle, la tía abuela de Gavin, está nuevamente de visita, y Gavin está seguro de que se pondrá del lado de su hermana para mandonearlo todo el tiempo. ¿Sobrevivirá Gavin a la tía Myrtle? ¿Podrá entender qué es lo que realmente ocurre con el niño nuevo?

Title: The Last Cuentista
Title in translation: La última cuentista
Writer: Donna Barba Higuera
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Levine Querido
ISBN: 978-164614-302-3

Description:

LA ÚLTIMA CUENTISTA
by Donna Barba Higuera, Translated by Aurora Humarán

The Last Cuentista is a middle-grade dystopian novel by Donna Barba Higuera, published October 12, 2021 by Levine Querido. The story follows Petra Peña who, along with her family and a few hundred others, leave Earth to continue the human race after a comet strikes the planet. After awaking on a new planet, Petra is the only one who remembers Earth and must use storytelling to keep her people’s history alive. It was published in British English under the title The Last Storyteller in 2022.[1]

In 2022, the book won the Newbery Medal and Pura Belpré Award.[2][3][4] The cover was illustrated by Raxenne Maniquiz.

Title: Declaring Your Worth
Title in translation: Declarando cuánto vales
Writer: Craig Miller
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 13: 9781617779206

Description:

Each short chapter contains a miracle story with practical instructions to declare your worth and break free into a greater freedom of abundant life. Learn remarkable biblical truths to receive your inheritance from God! Declare it now according to Job 22:28: You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you; And light will shine on your ways. Declare your worth!

Title: If I built a car
Title in translation: Si yo diseñara un auto
Writer: Chris Van Dusen
Translator: Aurora Humarán
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 1536461407, 9781536461404

Description:

Pablo describe el tipo de automóvil que construiría: uno con accesorios asombrosos y con la capacidad de viajar por tierra, por aire, por encima y por debajo del mar.