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At the beginning of this new year, I would like to express my warmest wishes of Happiness, Peace and Joy to all my readers and visitors, and to say a special thank you to those who keep encouraging me with their kind words.

I’d also like to ask those interested in receiving my five newsletters per year (winter, spring, summer, autumn and Christmas) to send me a message through the form below. I’m updating my address lists, and only those having confirmed their wish to receive my newsletters will receive them in the near future.

© Dulce Rodrigues

IN THIS ISSUE

• Monthly Legend
• Monthly Portuguese Recipe
• My featured children's book in English
• Travelogue Egypt
• Kids website www.barry4kids.net
• Forthcoming activities: Brussels Book Fair
• This month it happened...
• Featured PowerPoint presentation about the "Jungfraujoch"
• More features
• Where else to find me…

Monthly legend
Winter is not what we may call a blooming season, but Mother Nature will always surprise us, and among the very few bulb flowers that show their beauty through the fields covered with snow, we find the hellebore, a true winter flower that blooms sometimes already at Christmas in the mountains of Central Europe - hence its other name Christmas rose. The monthly legend is about this flower.

Monthly Portuguese recipe
Cod fish is a popular food with a low fat content, and it is said that in Portugal there are more than 100 traditional ways of cooking cod. Bacalhau à Brás, (Portuguese shredded cod fish with scrambled eggs and “frites”), the recipe I’m sharing today, is cheap and delicious. Give it a try and I’m sure you’ll love it.

BARRY's ADVENTURE
20x20 cm, 24 pages ISBN-13: 978-1425171698
ASIN: B003ZK55B6

My featured children’s book in English is again Barry's Adventure, the cheerful story of my pet dog Barry. This firm family favourite is not yet in the Top 100 of its category, but I hope it will soon be as a few other of my children’s stories and plays. You may like to watch the respective book trailer.

So, please let your children and grandchildren discover this story… after all, it’s for children of all ages. I believe there is no better review on a children's book than the opinion of... a child. And when that opinion comes through poems inspired by the story of the book it's something wonderful! These poems were written by school children in France where the French version was part of a class project. I would love that English-speaking children follow the same example and send me their own poems inspired by the story, too.

The book is available as paperback and e-book. E-books can be read on the PC, MAC, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or Android Phone. Both books are available at amazon.com and all other Amazon stores. Worksheets on this book are available to school teachers and parents.

 
TRAVELOGUE - EGYPT
Trough the Eyes of a Western Woman
ASIN B004NIFO42

TRAVELOGUE - EGYPT Through the Eyes of a Western Woman is the travelogue of my visit to Egypt. Gods, legends and a description of sites and monuments of the pharaonic perids are also part of the story: Giza plateau, Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Karnak, Memphis, Kom Ombo, Philea (the famous temple that was dismantled piece by piece and moved to the nearby Agilika Island when the Aswan Dam was built), the Temple of Hatshepsut…

This e-book is also in the Top 100 of its category at amazon.com.

Kids website www.barry4kids.net
As you all know, I love children and young people, and I'm particularly worried about their access to reading and education in general. This is the main reason why I created the children's site Barry4kids with stories and games and activities for learning in an amusing way. Most of those features were inspired by the stories of my first book for children, the French and Portuguese versions of Barry's Adventure. Through my stories and theatre plays I try not only to express my great affection for children but pass on to them as well as true values like respect and love for animals, those living creatures who share with us this Earth where everybody and everything should live in Peace and Harmony with Nature.

If you wish to receive as well the five newsletters from this kids’ website, please send me a confirmation through the form you’ll find below.

Forthcoming activities
This year, I’ll again attend the Brussels Book Fair. My presence is already confirmed for Sunday the 4th March, 2012 from 10 to 12 AM (stand 244). I’ll be very pleased to meet you personally there. More details soon. For further information on my activities, please visit the respective page.

It happened this month…
Events and characters that influenced and are part of man’s History, and have a link to the month of January: Mozart, Martin Luther King, Inês de Castro…

More PowerPoint presentations

Featured PowerPoint presentation
Beautiful pictures of the Alps and the Jungfraujoch, also called « Top of Europe » in tourist literature. The photos were taken during my train travel through Switzerland in 2011.

And should you like to read about Egypt, you have my Travelogue e-book.

More features
In case you have time and feel like it, may I invite you to take a tour to other features of my site? I hope they may be useful. Please feel free to leave a comment or send me an email message. Have Goodreads.

Where else to find me?
Besides the usual Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Multiply, Goodreads… you may find me a little everywhere on the internet, more recently also at HandBookLive.