What do six fish and an octopus have in common?
In Fishy Tales, they all want to remove the plastic trash island from their ocean. We all need your help and ideas to solve this problem. People, fish, octopuses and all life forms need clean water to live.
Available in English and Spanish
Fishy Tales is a picture book about a colorful school of fish who love to swim and play in the ocean. While playing their favorite game, Marco Polo, the fish hear cries for help. The concerned fish are off on an adventure to save an Octopus and their ocean from a large trash island.
Fishy Tales is an award winning picture book about a colorful school of fish who love to swim and play in the ocean. While playing their favorite game, Marco Polo, the fish hear cries for help. The concerned fish are off on an adventure to save an Octopus and their ocean from a large trash island.
Children are concerned about the environment that they are inheriting. This book is a great conversation starter for discussions on climate change and our responsibility to care for our planet earth.
English Version release date: December 21, 2021
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-734126853
Softcover: ISBN 978-1-734126877
Softcover: ISBN 978-1-734126877
Age ranged 4-8
Author and Illustrator: Vicki Riske
Spanish Version release date: March 1, 2022
Author and Illustrator: Vicki Riske
Spanish Version release date: March 1, 2022
Hardback: ISBN 9781734126891
Softcover: ISBN 9781734126884
Softcover: ISBN 9781734126884
Age ranged 4-8
Author and Illustrator: Vicki Riske
Translator: Sonia Elizabeth Urrutia de Soto
Author and Illustrator: Vicki Riske
Translator: Sonia Elizabeth Urrutia de Soto
Author: Vicki Riske
Currently Vicki writes and illustrates award winning children's books, designs and builds custom puppets. The New Polka Dot Tea Party, is about friendship and discovery. It contains colorful illustrations of the Sonoran Desert and its inhabitants. The owl is now on every page, which is super fun to find as you read the story.
Local artist Laura Best illustrated Grandma Bibi and Sonia Elizabeth Soto translated the text for the Spanish version, La Abuela Bibi. The two books tackle the difficulties of memory loss in older loved ones from the perspective of children.
My Teeth Are Too Big, is about challenges that come with change and how the magic of dreams can help us cope.
Dear Grandma and Grandpa/Queridos abuelos is a dual language book. Vicki co-authored this book with Sonia Elizabeth Soto. Writing this book was a new experience, they had to make decisions on how to work with the text in the design of the book. They decided to keep the English and Spanish text close to each other and used color to differentiate the languages.
The story is about a bored Jackie Rabbit. Her friends are too busy to play with her, so she asks her Mother if she can play. Mother Rabbit is too busy writing a letter to her sister and suggests that Jackie should write a letter to her grandparents. She doesn’t know how to write letters, so Mother explains the process. Jackie discovers the joy of writing and receiving letters.
Local artist Laura Best illustrated Grandma Bibi and Sonia Elizabeth Soto translated the text for the Spanish version, La Abuela Bibi. The two books tackle the difficulties of memory loss in older loved ones from the perspective of children.
My Teeth Are Too Big, is about challenges that come with change and how the magic of dreams can help us cope.
Dear Grandma and Grandpa/Queridos abuelos is a dual language book. Vicki co-authored this book with Sonia Elizabeth Soto. Writing this book was a new experience, they had to make decisions on how to work with the text in the design of the book. They decided to keep the English and Spanish text close to each other and used color to differentiate the languages.
The story is about a bored Jackie Rabbit. Her friends are too busy to play with her, so she asks her Mother if she can play. Mother Rabbit is too busy writing a letter to her sister and suggests that Jackie should write a letter to her grandparents. She doesn’t know how to write letters, so Mother explains the process. Jackie discovers the joy of writing and receiving letters.
Translator: Sonia Elizabeth Urrutia de Soto
Sonia Elizabeth Urrutia de Soto is a Bilingual Family Childcare Specialist for the Family, Friend, and Neighbor program of United Way of Pinal County. She has worked in family and child services for more than 20 years, including owning her own in-home preschool. Originally from Ciudad Juárez, México, Sonia earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Centro Teresiano de Estudios Superiores before moving to Arizona and obtaining her Early Childhood Education certificate from Central Arizona College. Sonia has two beautiful children and a very supportive and fun husband. In her spare time, she enjoys going to concerts, cooking, spending time with her family and rollerblading.
