WSU Spanish students write books for children

If you want to enjoy "Mackey, El Pingüino Macaroni," you'd better be able to speak Spanish. Or at least ask one of the kindergarten students at Winona's Madison Elementary School to tell you what the story is about. The students got to hear the story Thursday when its author and illustrator, Winona State University freshman Anna Rogahn, read it in their class.

The students in WSU Professor Mary Hudgens Henderson's intermediate Spanish classes all wrote children's books for the kindergarten, first-grade and second-grade Spanish Language Immersion Program students at Madison.

"I was kind of happy we got to read them to the class," said Rogahn, who is taking the class to fulfill her language requirement. Rogahn said that while she had fun writing the book about a macaroni penguin (a type of crested penguin) and his friends, she felt her classmate's book, "Vamos a Bailar" ("Let's Dance" in English) was better suited to the smaller children since it got them up and moving.

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