La Bamba: Latin American Journey
Reference bookA country-by-country reference to the music of Latin America — the rhythms, the instruments and the routes they travelled. The companion to the educational show of the same name.
Written for the classroom
Nelson Sosa's books
The songs, written down — so a teacher can carry the lesson on after the guitar leaves.
A performance lasts an hour. A book stays on the shelf. Since arriving in Chicago, Nelson has written and published materials for the city's bilingual and Spanish-speaking communities — reference books, story books and songbooks that let a teacher keep going long after the assembly is over.
They come out of the classroom rather than the study. Every song in them is one he has played for students, and every note about where it came from is one he has had to explain to a room of nine-year-olds.
La Llave de Latinoamérica / The Key to Latin America
Story book · Page Publishing, 2020Pablito travels the length of Latin America in search of a magical key, and meets the music, rhythms and customs of twelve countries on the way. An illustrated story book for children.
Where to buyFirst Songs of My Grandfather
For pre-schoolersThe songs a Chilean child grows up with, gathered for the youngest audiences and the adults who sing to them.
Trozos de Vida
Poems · in SpanishA collection of poems. The writer rather than the performer — pieces of a life, as the title has it.
Nelson replies to every enquiry himself.