Storyteller Adventures
Storytelling is one of our most fundamental communication methods. Who doesn’t love hearing a good story? The fact is, we spend much of our daily lives hearing and telling stories! It’s our way of sharing information and living vicariously through the experiences of others.
During our first half-century, we have been fortunate enough to have some pretty incredible experiences and we fancy sharing our tales. We’ve called this blog, “Storyteller Adventures,” because we wanted to share some of our incidents of travel as well as to document our journey of how Vista Tranquila Publishers came into existence and how it continues. So, what does our blog include and what can you expect to find? For sure, we’ll touch on topics relevant to bilingual life, our travels around the world, the exotic foods we try, and the intriguing people we encounter. We have astonishing adventures every day though, even when we don’t go anywhere. We’ll share our mundane observations and some truly unique encounters.
Vista Tranquila Publishers is our creation but, it’s so much more than a book publishing company. We seek to tell stories that will inspire interest, promote cross-cultural understanding, and be entertaining at the same time. Our basic premise for our business is in favor of creating shared experiences and opposed to the collection of garage sale fodder. We want to make our books and our products come alive. Once you become a part of the story, the books and the handicrafts we sell become part of our shared encounter, a type of trophy you story in your memory. Everything we post on our website will tell a story. We hope you like what we’re doing, and we look forward to reading your comments!
Day at the zoo
Camino Seguro
Safe Passage brings hope, education, and opportunity to the children and families making their lives around the Guatemala City garbage dump
Safe Passage is a Guatemalan, non-profit organization founded in 1999 by Hanley Denning, an American teacher from Maine. Safe Passage has a preschool, elementary, and after school program and have expanded to provide various programs for mothers. Safe Passage brings hope, education, and opportunity to the children and families making their lives around Guatemala City’s garbage dump. On March 21, 2022, we gave a class set of book to Camino Seguro and made a video of Kim reading her book The Magical Skies of Sumpango/Los cielos mágicos de Sumapango.
Camino Seguro es una organización guatemalteca sin fines de lucro fundada en 1999 por Hanley Denning, una maestra estadounidense de Maine. Safe Passage tiene un programa de preescolar, primaria y extraescolar y se ha ampliado para ofrecer diversos programas para madres. Safe Passage lleva esperanza, educación y oportunidades a los niños y familias que hacen su vida en torno al vertedero de basura de Ciudad de Guatemala. El 21 de marzo de 2022, hicimos una donación de libros a Camino Seguro y un vídeo de Kim leyendo su libro, The Magical Skies of Sumpango/Los cielos mágicos de Sumapango.
Désirée Iturbide is a Guatemalan artist, illustrator, and art instructor. Creating art has been her passion since childhood. She especially liked drawing sketches of people and animals. As an adult, she worked as a graphic artist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland before returning to reside in Antigua, Guatemala, where she teaches watercolor workshops. Painting watercolor animals has become her specialty. She has illustrated five children’s books which feature watercolor animals.
Désirée Iturbide es una artista, ilustradora y profesora de arte guatemalteca. Desde niña le apasiona crear arte. Le gustaba especialmente dibujar retratos de personas y animales. De adulta, trabajó como artista gráfica en la Universidad de Zúrich, en Suiza, antes de regresar a Antigua, Guatemala, donde imparte talleres de acuarela. Pintar animales con acuarelas se ha convertido en su especialidad. Ha ilustrado cinco libros infantiles en los que aparecen animales pintados con acuarelas.