La selva de Zonia

Zonia's Rain Forest is a sweet picturebook about an Asháninka girl's day of play in the rain forest of Peru with an informative, eye-opening back matter. Juana Martinez-Neal's illustrations, made on handmade banana bark paper, are cute, playful, and colorful, albeit not very realistic (e.g., Zonia ri......more

This picture book has gorgeous, well-designed illustrations and teaches people about deforestation in the Amazon, but it fell flat for me as a story. The book addresses Zonia's daily activities in a very fanciful way, including her direct interactions with predatory animals that would be a threat to......more

Zonia, a young Asháninka living in the Peruvian Amazon's rain forest. Every morning, the rain forest beckons Zonia and she loves to walk through it, and visit all her old and new friends living there, accompanied by a blue morpho butterfly. As she makes her rounds, Zonia greets a wide variety of cre......more

I loved the illustrations. There's a sweet depiction of Zonia's mama nursing her baby brother on the first spread. Loved her interactions with animals living in the rain forest, but I found the illustrations of her riding on the back of a leopard and sitting on a lily pad while a caiman emerges in t......more

Zonia is one of the Ashaninka people living in the Peruvian Amazon, and every day she spends with her animal friends in the rain forest. But one day she sees something terrible in the forest---a huge section of the forest has been cut down. She knows she must take action. The back of the book contain......more