Yara!

There are  three children's books by Yossi Lapid pretty discounted these days because of the Amazon Rainforest Day thus September 5: they are the three books written and illustrated on Yara, a little indigenous of the Amazon Forest.

Written by Lapid and illustrated by Joanna Pasek, they are extremely beauty because of the splendid messages addressed to children in every book. 

We all know the cruciality of the Amazon Forest, the lung of the world, devastated by horrible actions of men, who, just for business are killing the forest and well, themselves and ourselves.

Said that, in these children's books there are stories that will let think a lot children and adults. 

In the first children's book, Yara's Tamari Tree,

we see our little heroine saving a tree, pretty important and rare for the forest: after few years from this event Yara falls sick. She will be cured with the material taken from the tree she had planted. 

In this case we see that having close to us a lot of trees can be of crucial importance for our existence. 

In the second children's book called Yara and Purr, Y

ara will discover somewhere a little monkey who had lost his father, wounded somewhere. The little monkey driven by Yara will find his father with great relief. The existence of these monkeys in general is pretty good, but sometimes there are obstacles or incidents because of the most diversified reasons. It is a joyous children's book, with stunning, paradisiac illustrations. The tale focuses in the joy, happiness of a life well-spent: for using the words by Yossi 

Deep in the jungle,

where the river turns east,

A small group of monkeys

are having a feast.

They are purring together,

their life is so good,

They are safe and content

in their beautiful wood.

It's the meaning of the existence. 

The third children's book will let us think a lot. Yara and the Yellow-Headed Parrots is a story of necessity, read by Yara with great versality.

You know: there are horrible men who would want to buy also special and pretty rare animals. One day, a young man with a kid in need, he suffered of an important ilness but he didn't have money for curing him, spotted this nest of rare birds, and thought that if he would have captured and later sold to someone these parrots he would have been in grade to buy with the money made, medicines, pills to his kid.

Yara discovered the young man and started to talk to him. She suggested him another person, an healer: she would have resolved the problem of his kid, leaving alone the parrots, so beautiful and precious.

The young man agreed that this one was the best thing to do, saving his kid and at the same time the existence of these parrots, pretty rare at the moment in the Amazon Forest.

Three children's books this ones plenty of joy, freedom, happiness: that happiness in strong fusion with nature, forest, and connection with wild animals and healers, special people in deep connection with the forces of nature: children's books at the same time with strong messages vehicoled with lightness and a good smile so that children will learn that, if the world is so beauty, as seen in these books (oh, believe me, they will fall in love for the Amazon Forest) it will be important to keep it...Beautiful, don't you think so?

Highly recommended!

I thank Yossi for the copies of the books.

Anna Maria Polidori