by Cheryl Serra
The students in Louisa Amanda Sanchez’s class at Escuela Victor Manuel are using their imaginations more since the San Juan del Sur Biblioteca Movil mobile book project arrived at the school, bringing books to many students who previously had none. “These students especially like the picture books,” Sanchez says, “because they are able to create elaborate stories based on the pictures.”
Sanchez has taught at the school, located in San Juan del Sur, for the past seven years. Prior to the arrival of the library’s mobile book project, there were no books for students in Ms. Sanchez’s class. Students would copy everything they learned from the notes she wrote on the blackboard.
