THE YOUNG TEACHER AND THE GREAT SERPENT Irene Vasco Juan Palomino translated by Lawrence Schimel EERDMANS BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN
Finally after studying for many years the young teacher was ready for her first assignment But when she read the name of the place where she was being sent she was a bit unsettled Comunidad Las Delicias in the Amazon She had never heard of it She looked it up in an atlas and on the internet In the end it was quite clear that she was going to work in the middle of the jungle That's fine Wherever it is there will be children who want to read and write and learn geography science and math I'll bring lots of books to show them she thought
