Popular children's book Bat Rider is translated into Spanish

March 22, 2012 - PRLog -- If you know a Spanish-speaking child who is an avid reader, here is a treat for him or her. For months the translator Monica A. Barry has been working on turning the English stories about Matthew John and his faithful bat Bulmer, whose hair-raising adventures flying through the volcanic fumes of Mount Boom on the back of his bat have thrilled a generation of English-speaking children, into exciting Spanish prose so that young people can enjoy the stories in Mexico, Spain, Peru, Argentina and many other countries.

In Spanish, Matthew John is known as Juan Mateo. His dear friend and companion on his adventures, Emily Charlotte, is known as Emilia Carlotta, but the name of the magical and beautiful world they explore remains the same in both languages: Yumi. The world of Yumi is where the mile-high trees grow, and where children must work hard through the night harvesting the fruit from the treetops. Only boys and girls are light enough to fly the bats up so high to pick the Yumi fruit. The grown-ups are too heavy to ride bats, and must depend on the bravery and daring of their children for food and clothing.

The name of the tigress who lurks in the lava tubes is the same in both languages: Baagh. What will happen when Juan Mateo and Emila Carlotta meet the tigress? Order the new Spanish version of Bat Rider from Amazon.com and find out!

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Bulmer Books is famous for publishing the Bat Rider books for children of 7 - 11 years, sold in Australia, Canada, the US, and elsewhere. The Bat Rider books are distributed in English and Spanish by Apple, Sony, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.