A Horse Named Melenudo: The story of a paso fino horse with the longest mane

A young boy named Julio, accidentally discovers the last wild Paso Fino horse family in South American Andes Mountains. The boy becomes determined to see them closely, specially a young colt that had the longest mane and tail anybody has ever seen. He named the colt Melenudo, a spanish nickname for males with long hair. Both main characters, Melenudo and Julio live adversity and many adventures which make them stronger and wiser. This first book captures with words and with amazing illustrations, the beginning of this journey. There are two versions of the same book with illustrations in black and white for children to color freely and a second version with images in full color to expand their artistic abilities further, the color version comes at a higher price.More Melenudo’s books will bring new adventures, collect them all!

Augusto Silva is an Industrial Engineer who works in Quality and Continuous Improvement. he is also a renaissance man who through his website www.pointofviewsite.com, uses his artistic God given talents to create customized art, to inspire and help people of all ages overcome and celebrate the conquering of their struggles with art, yes, any struggle, no matter how difficult their circumstances. Children books is another avenue that Augusto Silva uses by showing how animals endure and succeed in nature. Augusto grew up in a coffee farm in his native Colombia, surrounded by all kind of animals which helped to create all these fun stories, which now he is using to inspire children to paint and also to see the positive side and focus on determination and success. In these books Augusto is also able to bring in the richness of latin culture, he strategically include characters of multiple nationalities to help children relate and continue with his mission of looking at life in different ways to promote peace, love, art and understanding for all animals and all people.