AUTHOR – EDUCATOR – STORYTELLER

Stories that cross mountains and generations

Twenty-five years of community service. A science educator at the New York Hall of Science. A flamenco dancer. Thirteen years as a Girl Scout leader. Every one of those lives shows up in the pages I write.

Maria Rosell
§03 — The Book · The Blue Morphos
binding the pages —

I — the find

A book that crosses generations

Indigo cloth over boards, a morpho stamped in ice-blue foil, stardust that never quite brushes off. Scroll to open it — drag to turn it over in your hands.

II — Barranquilla, 4ºB

discovered by fourth graders,

Found in a donated box at a school library. Class 4-B signed the endpaper like a treaty — and added a rule about touching. Beyond it, the chapters begin.

III — el río

rediscovered by grown-ups,

“¿Oyes el río? Suena como si llevara mucha agua.” The bamboo forest, the bridge, the deer. Everyone returns it. Nobody lets it go.

IV — the route

and known to send a few readers looking up flights to Colombia.

The last spread is Fráncisco's homework — the three cordilleras, drawn from memory. The fare is not included; the itch is complimentary. Tap the route to send the plane again.

drag to turnscroll to read

A book that crosses generations, discovered by fourth graders, rediscovered by grown-ups, and known to send a few readers looking up flights to Colombia.

§04 · reader letters — re-read from the cover

Our Mission - The Blue Morphos

Our Mission

Old book and nature

Our mission is to spark a love of reading for nature, for wildlife, for cultures beyond our own.

We want every reader to feel like they're walking through those mountains, rivers, farms, and villages and, when they finish, to want to write their own family stories too.

The journey begins here
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