Just clicked 'publish' for Gabriel in Spanish (will post links when available). I must tell you that this ended up being an interesting project. The translator, Joaquin, messaged me multiple times regarding words and phrases. Now, while this isn't unusual in the translation process, his questions were most insightful and caused me to realise just how strange English can be. For instance, at one stage there is mention of 'Jesus is a holey bucket' which is a play on 'holy' and 'manger' (because Ivy in the story is pretty irreverent), and this makes perfect sense to us reading English, Try, however, to translate that and keep the humour! There were others and we did some fancy footwork to get the message across 😊 Here's hoping Spanish readers get it!!
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