MY FRIEND FROM OUTER SPACE, NOW AVAILABLE IN SPANISH

My book, My Friend from Outer Space, has now been translated into Spanish and is available on Amazon. Mi Amiga del Espacio is available in both paperback and as a Kindle ebook.

With many thanks to my brother Tom Scheaffer, who for many years was a bilingual Spanish teacher in an elementary school in California, and to my daughter Jennifer Arnold and her husband Humberto Gutierrez Rivas, a native speaker from Chile.

Here is the description of the book in Spanish:

"Sherry es mi vecina. Ella dice que viene del espacio. No le creo."
Sherry y su amiga van al espacio en un cohete de cartón. ¿Realmente van al espacio? ¿O simplemente están fingiendo?
Este libro ilustrado es para niños de cinco a doce años.
Publicado originalmente en inglés con el título My Friend from Outer Space (Amazon, 2023).
Traducción por Thomas Scheaffer y Humberto Gutiérrez-Rivas.

My Books Now Available in GERMAN

I was thrilled to discover that fourteen of my books published by StarWalk Kids Media have been translated into German and are available as Kindle books on Amazon. If you read German or know someone who does, these would be great books to share.  Here are the titles that are available.

FOX: FUCHS

LLAMA: LAMA

GIRAFFE: GIRAFFE

CAMEL: KAMEL

LION: LOWE

CHEETAH: GEPARD

NOISYTIME FOR ZOO ANIMALS: ZOOTIERE WERDEN LAUT

PLAYTIME FOR ZOO ANIMALS: ZEIT SUM SPIELEN FUR ZOOTIERE

MEALTIME FOR ZOO ANIMALS: FRESSENSZEIT FUR ZOOTIERE

WHEN MAMMOTHS WALKED THE EARTH: ALS MAMMUTE DIE ERDE BEVOLKERTEN

DINOSAUR MOUNTAIN: BERG DER DINOSAURIER

DINOSAURS ALL AROUND: DINOSAURIER UBERALL

DINOSAURS DOWN UNDER: DINOSAURIER DOWN UNDER

CITY OF THE GODS: STADT DER GOTTER

BIRDS: NATURE'S MAGNIFICENT FLYING MACHINES Now Translated into Chinese

Recently, the mailman delivered a package, and, to my surprise, it contained a copy of my book BIRDS: NATURE'S MAGNIFICENT FLYING MACHINES (Charlesbridge, 2003) translated into Chinese.  I am always thrilled to find out that my books have been translated into other languages and to think that children in other parts of the world are reading what I wrote. I also like to see what the text looks like in other languages.  In this case, I was particularly fascinated to see the Chinese characters that are used for the word "birds" in the title and for my name.  I was inspired to get out the chop (or "official" seal) of my name that I had made when I was in Shanghai in 2005 for an author visit.  Only my first name fit, but now that I have my book, I can see how my last name is written as well.