Vanilla and Chocolate has ARRIVED!

To celebrate my 50th birthday, I launched a family project: Lessons for Living - Lecciones de Vida. 

This Collection contains Bilingual Children Book with a moral, vocabulary page, questions for discussion and activity page for home or classrooms k-4 graders. 

The first book is Vanilla and Chocolate illustrated by my teenage daughter and edited by my son. 

My critique and writer's group gave the final touch and comments.

Thank you ALL for your support!

Vanilla And Chocolate: A concerned teacher helps two friends be together after their parents refused to let them play because of their skin color. Recommended for ages 5-8. Reading Level 1st to 3er grade. Spanish Level 1. This Book received Five Stars Reader's Favorite Review.

 Vainilla Y Chocolate: Una preocupada profesora ayuda a dos amigos a estar juntos después que sus padres se rehúsan a dejarlos jugar juntos por el color de su piel. Recomendado para edades de 5 a 8 años con nivel de lectura de Primero a Tercer grado. Y para estudiantes de Español Nivel 1. Este libro recibió reconocimiento de Cinco Estrellas por Reader's Favorite.

To order your book visit: http://www.amazon.com/Vanilla-Chocolate-Vainilla-Spanish-English/dp/098567623X/

For FREE Lessons for Living Activities, visit: http://www.luzdelmes.com/ldm.php?ldm=learningactivities

Thank you Lord for this gift and family support!

Comments on Facebook - October 2012

10/9/12 Vanilla and Chocolate - Vainilla y Chocolate The color selection process was excited.

            Lois W. Stern I like your colors! Makes for an enticing format!

            Lois W. Stern Lots of good luck,

            Mcv Egan Love the English-Spanish angle greetings from

10/15/12 Excited to have my first Children book published.

  Fidelia Jaramillo Mari: ¡FELICITACIONES! por ese primer logro, segundo de tu lista, y yo estoy convencida    que solo son los primeros de una gran lista de grandes escritos. Que orgullo amiga te envío un gran abrazo.

          Carmen L. Zaldívar  Congratulations! Estas acabando.Top of Form 1

10/17/12  NOW AVAILABLE Vanilla And Chocolate/Vainilla Y Chocolate (English/Spanish Edition) www.amazon.com

Alexandra Martinez likes this.   Denise Hayden likes this 10/19/12 Book Ready!...El libro está listo!

Claudia Périsset-Forero likes this.         Serena Schreiber likes this.          K.w. Ranger Congratulations!          Floralba Sebá Boada Likes this          Michele Rivelli-Bucci Likes this          Leona DeRosa Bodie Likes this          Claudia Périsset-Forero Felicitaciones por tu nuevo libro           Liliana Plata Excelente vas muy bien felicidades. Orgullo Colombiano          Debora Ramos Felicidades!!!!          Sandra Naranjo Virtudes que dan libertad porque construimos el camino que tiene un sentido trascendente,                               siendo al mismo tiempo flexibles para sacarle provecho a las sorpresas que van apareciendo al matizar con colores las           curvas que tenemos que ponerle.  Grande abrazo.     Eddy Cristina Salinas HOLA MARY, FELICITACIONES!!! lLA SACASTE DEL ESTADIO, ASÍ SE CELEBRAN LOS 50!! UN ABRAZOTOTOTE. 12:25pm Oct 19 Sandra Naranjo De esta forma vas a vivir eternamente en la mente de muchos terrícolas, construyendo también la vida eterna espiritual al seguir las sugerencias que Dios nos ha dado amorosamente Rosario Moreno Mi querida amiga. Qué bueno Dios la bendiga y mantenga tus éxitos. Quiero uno Autografiado y dedicado....  Martha Villamil MARITZA MUCHAS FELICIDADES EN TU CUMPLEAÑOS, Y EXITOS A LA  ESCRITORA EXTRELLA EN ESTE NUEVO LIBRO, QUE VENDAS MUCHOOOOOOOSSS, UN  ABRAZO... Nancy Pachon posted toMaritza M. Mejia Maritza Feliz cumple y muchas felicitaciones por tu nuevo libro, te deseo mucho éxito y tienes que sentirte super orgullosa ya que cada libro es como un hijo. Disfrútalo, un fuerte abrazo. Fidelia Jaramillo Que hermosa portada!, felicitaciones Stella, que bellas ilustraciones. Svetlana Reumann Felicidades!!!!       Yolanda Goodwin Author 2:50pm Nov 12 Liked your page! Maritza M. Mejia! I love it! Train up a child in the way he/she should go! Cindy Steed 1:18pm Nov 12 I love your book concept Maritza ! This is a teaching that is often discussed in our home, teaching our children that God loved diversity. We can appreciate that as we observe and appreciate His creations. Gary Weiner Congratulations on publishing your children’s oriented book. The subject is timely, as some parents hand down biased stereotypes to their children for various reasons. Reminds me of the McCartney song “Ebony and IVORY". Perhaps your next novel would cover religious tolerance which I feel is of tantamount significance in global interactions witnessed today.

About Vanilla and Chocolate/Vainilla y Chocolate

First Bilingual Children Book:

About Vanilla and Chocolate/Vainilla y Chocolate

By

Maritza Martinez Mejia 2012

It is a pleasure to present to you my first book of Lessons for Living: Vanilla and Chocolate. A Bilingual Children Book for elementary school and for Beginning Spanish learner students.

Vanilla and Chocolate was published in October 2012. This book was written to help children understand the virtue of Tolerance. This virtue gives a fair attitude toward those whose opinions, race, religion and customs differ from one's own.  Race does not matter as long as you tolerate and appreciate each other’s differences. Vanilla and Chocolate invites the reader to talk with children at home or at school about this topic since each story contains a vocabulary page and questions for discussion.

Summary: A concerned teacher helps two friends be together after their parents refused to let them play because of their skin color.

This book is dedicated to all teachers who dedicate their lives to education.

Please visit my author page: http://www.amazon.com/Maritza-Martinez-Mejia/e/B009DKDXFW

Es un placer para mí presentar mi primer libro de Lecciones de Vida: Vainilla y Chocolate. Un Libro Bilingüe para Niños de primaria.

Vainilla y Chocolate fue publicada en Octubre del 2012. Este libro está escrito para ayudar a los niños/niñas a entender la virtud de la Tolerancia. Esta virtud da una actitud justa hacia aquellos que sus opiniones, raza, religión y costumbres son diferentes a la nuestra. La Raza no importa si toleramos y apreciamos nuestras diferencias. Vainilla y Chocolate  invita al lector a conversar  con los niños/niñas en la casa o la escuela acerca de este tema ya que cada historia contiene una página con vocabulario y preguntas para analizar.

Resumen: Una preocupada profesora ayuda a dos amigos a estar juntos después que sus padres se rehúsan a dejarlos jugar juntos por el color de su piel.

Este cuento está dedicado a todos los profesores que dedican su vida a la educación.

Por favor visita la página de autor: http://www.amazon.com/Maritza-Martinez-Mejia/e/B009DKDXFW

Back Cover Text and Covers Selection

What a challenge! Select your favorite Back Cover!

Vanilla and Chocolate was written to help children understand the virtue of “Tolerance.” This virtue gives a fair attitude toward those whose opinions, race, religion and customs differ from one's own.  Race does not matter as long as you tolerate and appreciate each other’s differences.     

Talk with your children about this topic. 

The author

Which one?...

Vainilla y Chocolate está escrita para ayudar a los niños/niñas a entender la virtud de la “Tolerancia.” Esta virtud da una actitud justa hacia aquellos que sus opiniones, raza, religión y costumbres son diferentes a la nuestra. La Raza no importa si toleramos y apreciamos nuestras diferencias.

Habla con tus niños/niñas acerca de este tema.

El Autor

See the final Cover on my Website: www.luzdelmes.com

                                                               

Development Vanilla and Chocolate

Vanilla and Chocolate was written to help children understand the virtue of “Tolerance.”

Summary: A concerned teacher helps two friends be together after their parents refused to let them play because of their skin color.

This book is dedicated to all teachers who dedicate their lives to education.

Vainilla y Chocolate está escrita para ayudar a los niños/niñas a entender la virtud de la “Tolerancia.”
Resumen: Una preocupada profesora ayuda a dos amigos a estar juntos después que sus padres se rehúsan a dejarlos jugar juntos por el color de su piel.

Este cuento está dedicado a todos los profesores que dedican su vida a la educación

Website: www.luzdelmes.com

Author NEWS!!!

Dear friends, writing is my passion. The promotion process is hard; it demands time, dedication, frustration, rejections and so on...BUT future Projects coming SOON!!! 

Happy New Year!!!

My Writing Style

I am promoting my memoir, Hazel Eyes. One editor asked me what is your Writing Style?...I wasn't sure at the moment how to answer, but now this is my  response...probably a little late for the editor...Not for me!

Writing to Inspire Others

As a mother, author, advocate, educator and speaker, my motivating passion is to help children and teenagers through inspiring and creative stories even when my writing style may be rejected–English is my second language after Spanish.

While a teenager, I enjoyed writing inspiring messages and poems for my friends in my native language. As a mother, I developed the necessity to write short stories in English for my children to teach them moral values that I could not find in the books at the library.  As I grew older, I ventured to write my memoir in a foreign language for respect to my relatives who did not want me to share my spiritual life, but my spirit moved me to write Hazel Eyes, an inspirational book for teenagers and adults published in 2010.

Writing a memoir connects our common stories that we experience beginning with our childhood and on through adulthood. This type of writing process serves as a wonderful healer. I wrote Hazel Eyes to take the reader on a journey to view my personal life and to reveal my experience of faith.

It took me nearly three years to write, research, and re-write since it was painful for me to remember some bad memories from my life as a child, doubts and questions as a teenager, and sadly moments as an adult like the loss of my parents. At the same time, it was breathtaking to remember my life as an adventurer traveling and working in different countries all over the word until the moment I met my Prince Charming and married. Since that moment, my life changed completely. I experienced the miracle of life as a mother and the enormous challenges that represent being a parent.  I also incorporated my devotional prayers, cultural traditions and celebrations that have been part of my life. When I wrote my memoir, I realized how important it was to examine life and wipe away past incidents and to forgive others. Hazel Eyes inspired me to continue to write inspirational messages for all ages.

My current project is to complete a children’s bilingual collection called Lessons for Living for ages 3-12 years old to promote virtues that often seem to be forgotten. Each story contains a moral, vocabulary page, and questions for discussion with children in classrooms or at home.

For more information, visit my website: www.luzdelmes.com