Maria from Peru

Comes to live with Olivia!

An e-book by Margaret Simkin

Hi Olivia, my name is Maria and I come from Cusco, Peru.

Your name is Olivia and you come from Sydney, Australia

Peru is a country in South America.

Peru is where I am pointing.

http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps2458.html

Australia is an island country.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Australia/Ausmap.shtml Sydney is where you live!

I come from the Andes Mountains, a place called Cusco.

You come from a home near Sydney Harbour

Cusco is not far from Macchu Picchu

http://si.smugmug.com/gallery/2918135_NnGW6/1/157205482#162619677_vRyir

Sydney is the biggest city in Australia.

http://frank.itlab.us/photo_essays/wrapper.php?nov_20_2007_sydney.html

Macchu Picchu was built many years ago by people called the Incas. They felt safe

high up on the mountain top hidden in the clouds.

Sydney was built many years ago by English settlers.

• They needed a port so they could travel home to England (where your Daddy comes from)!

Peru has lots of dry desert.

"eco-hotel-costa-rica.com“ website: www.eco-hotel-costa-rica.com

If you fly across the desert in a plane you can see the Nazca lines

http://www.fotolibre.org/displayimage.php?album=111&pos=14

No one knows how these lines were made.

Did you paint them Olivia?

Australia has a lot of desert too. This is the Simpson Desert.

http://www.escalade.com.au/simp_tpic.html

In Peru people farm alpaca.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1479241

In Australia people like Margaret and Gary farm sheep.

Here is your cousin Sarah holding a baby lamb, and a baby Olivia!

This is Peru’s flag

• http://www.weltreis.ch/?cat=30

Here is Australia’s flag

It has stars like you have on your face!

Peru has the Amazon River which is really big.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vilseskogen/4164359231/

Sydney has a big harbour!

Now I have left Peru and come to Sydney!

One day you might go to Peru and see the Amazon River!

Now I am in Sydney, will you look after me?

We hope you have enjoyed the book Olivia.

Merry Christmas from your relatives in Tarrington 2011

All images in this book

Have been copied from Creative Commons Licensed sites and listed as able to be manipulated. Sources are as shown on each page, or taken by Margaret Simkin (Olivia’s Aunt) or Barbara Durance (Olivia’s Mum)