This document provides information about a story time event at the Liberty Public Library focused on South America. It includes a welcome song, details about making and enjoying Brazo de Reina (a traditional South American dessert), rainforest animal dances, book recommendations related to South America and the rainforest, as well as facts about the Amazon Rainforest. The event aims to help children learn about other communities around the world to promote literacy and critical thinking skills.

1. Liberty Public
Library
Story Time
Storytime Around the
World:
South America
Welcome Song:
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
Yes I am! Yes I am!
Now it’s time for Story Time,
Now it’s time for Story Time,
Yes it is! Yes it is!
World Cooking:
Brazo de ReinaAmazon River Dance!
Recipes suppled by PBS Kids World Foods website:
Pbs.org/food/recipes
Ingredients
5 eggs at room temperature
1 pinch of salt
1 ½ cup powdered sugar
1 ½ cups sifted all purpose flour
28 ounces of Dulce de leche
Directions
*Separate eggs placing yolks in a bowl add a half of the pow-
der sugar and beat until they double in size and become
lighter color. Once ready set aside. In another bowl, beat
egg whites with a pinch of salt until hardened, then add little
by little the rest of the powder sugar (previously separated)
beating continually until it becomes a firm meringue.
*Add the meringue to the beaten yolks and mix carefully
with a wrapping motion. Add flour in 2 or 3 steps with the
help of a spatula also in a soft wrapping motion. Once it’s
mixed well, pour into baking sheet, which has been oiled
and covered with wax paper.
*Carefully spread the mix on the baking sheet cover evenly
leaving it at about 1 cm thick. Place back in oven (pre-
heated at 325°F); bake for 8 to 10 minutes until the edges
are lightly brown. Remove from oven and separate borders
turning carefully over a clean cloth. Fold immediately and let
cool. Unfold and spread the dulce de leche filling carefully,
spreading evenly on the whole biscuit surface. *Fold again
and cover with wax paper applying pressure to better shape
the roll. Place in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
*Finally, place in big plate and remove wrapping with the
help of a flat spatula, cover the outside with additional dulce
de leche, spread everywhere, you can decorate with dried
fruit ground coconut, chocolate chips or a topping of your
own choice.
Wiggle like an electric eel—
Shake your fins, shake your
fins!
Jump like a pink dolphin—
Jump right in, jump right in
Twirl like an anaconda—
Turn around, turn around
Chomp like a piranha—
Bite down, bite down!
Dance like the otters do—
Up and down, up and down!

2. Book Recommendations
Created By Samantha Colwell, 2016, Liberty Public Library
Not only does helping your child to be a
citizen of the world promote a global
sense of togetherness, but it also helps
your child’s early literacy! Learning
about other communities, countries, and
people around the world requires
learning a more advanced vocabulary,
and puts them ahead in critical and
abstract thinking.
*Where is South America? (It is
highlighted in red below)
*The Rainforest dominates a lot
of the land in South America.
*The Amazon Rainforest is the
largest tropical rainforest in the
world!
*Over half of the rainforest is
located in Brazil, the remaining
in countries including Peru,
Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia,
Guyana, Bolivia, Suriname and
French Guiana.
Facts and Figures! Tips for Parents:
What are some of your favorite
animals that live in the Amazon
Rainforest?
Here’s a few we learned about
today!
*Jaguar
*Toucan
*Blue morpho butterfly
*Over 1,000 species of frog live in
the Amazon!
If I Ran The Rainforest
By Bonnie Worth
“I’m the Cat in the Hat, and its time that we
get to go to a place that is steamy and wet.”
The Umbrella
By Jan Brett
“Carlos walks into the cloud forest with his
green umbrella, where the only sound is the
steady drip, drip, drip from the rain falling
from the trees.”
Island in the Sun
By Harry Belafonte
“Harry Belafonte’s lyrical portrait of the
island of Jamaica’s many charms was first
popularized in a lilting calypso song
co-written and sung by the renowned
entertainer.”