First it was Madonna… now Gloria Estefan is throwing her hat into the literary world too. The five-time Grammy winner has exchanged her piano keyboard for a computer keyboard to write about a brown-and-white bulldog named “Noelle” that beat the odds. Not unlike the famous singer who fought back following her 1990 bus crash, which left her paralyzed and wondering if she would ever walk again.
Estefan, the author, has just put the final touches on “Noelle’s Treasure Tale”–the second installment in a series of colorful children’s books featuring the curious Noelle and her adventures. The book teaches kids about history and the animal world while imparting life lessons, specifically about overcoming obstacles.
Estefan’s first book in the series, “The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog,” became a nest-seller (the books are available in English and Spanish) and she hopes the second one does as well.
“There was no ghosting here – I wrote every word,” Estefan recently told reporters at a book launching party. “I told them look, ‘I’m going to edit myself. I’m used to doing a three-minute song, I can certainly edit down to 31 pages of a children’s book.”
Estefan says that writing children’s books is her creative outlet and an “opportunity to communicate with people.” She says part of what inspired her to become an author was the fact that following her accident she felt the need to inspire others the way her fans inspired her during her recovery.
While Estefan hasn’t recorded an album since 2003’s “Unwrapped,” she says she is still very busy raising her 11-year-old daughter and keeping tabs on her adult son. She says she is also hard at work on another all-Spanish language CD and a screenplay about singer Connie Francis, which she plans to star in the leading role. And, Estefan says she continues to write. She plans to pen a third book featuring Noelle the bulldog in the next few months.
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