WOMAGIS United States of America
Marta Villegas, MĂłnica Carretero
Paperback
(Independently published, Sept. 3, 2019)
Womagis United States of America is the very first multilingual children’s book, written in 18 of the most common languages spoken in the USA: English, Chinese, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lakota-Sioux, Navajo, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog & Vietnamese. Womagis is a funny, joyful book that tells the story of a word magician, who is in quest to understand the origin of everything, and he finds out that love was the source of all things created in the universe, so love became the very first word to exist, and Womagis starts using his magical feathers to create all kinds of new words to describe peace and friendship. But then, the Shade created new words of hate, and the world was no longer a happy place. Womagis then realizes that there is a way to lock up the Shade, and the magician decides to share his talents, by granting the children the power to use magical feathers to create endless words for love.Womagis is the story, the tool, the game, and the universe for a new world changing constantly, with new generations willing to rediscover their own identity in a new way, sharing the world, mixed, beautiful, and full of possibilities.A book inspired on the author’s own personal experience, seeing her family becoming inmigrants, while welcoming the next generation in her own family, the so-called third culture kids: those who are born of two nationalities, raised in a country with different languages, and struggling to keep and transmit their roots.