Animal Talk: Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish (Bilingual English and Spanish)

by Cynthia Weill (Author) Efraín Broa (Illustrator)

From Oaxaca, Mexico, come vibrant wood carvings of animals that invite children to learn animal sounds in English and Spanish.

Desde Oaxaca, México, vienen vibrantes tallados en madera de animales que invitan a los niños a aprender los sonidos de los animales en inglés y español.

Did you know that animal noises can sound different in different languages? A goat greets you with "meh, meh" in English and "bee bee" in Spanish. And in English a rooster calls out "cock-a-doodle-doo" to greet the dawn, while a rooster loudly crows "ki-kiri-ki" in Spanish. Young readers will delight in identifying the fifteen imaginative figures of familiar animals in this charming bilingual book, while the text invites children to imitate animal sounds in English and Spanish. This is the perfect book for an interactive and playful beginning reading experience.

¿Sabías que los ruidos de los animales pueden sonar diferentes en diferentes idiomas? Una cabra te saluda con "meh, meh" en inglés y "bee bee" en español. Y en inglés, un gallo grita "cock-a-doodle-doo" para saludar al amanecer, mientras que un gallo canta en voz alta "ki-kiri-ki" en español. Los lectores jóvenes se deleitarán al identificar las quince imaginativas figuras de animales familiares en este encantador libro bilingüe, mientras que el texto invita a los niños a imitar los sonidos de los animales en inglés y español. Este es el libro perfecto para una experiencia de lectura inicial interactiva y lúdica.

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A beautiful, playful, childcentric approach to language learning -- and if it spawns conversations about dialects, so much the better.

School Library Journal

Looking for a fun and attractive picture book for bilingual storytime? Oaxacan wood sculptures in this work will captivate young readers with colorful images and simple vocabulary in English and Spanish... Children will enjoy making 15 various animal sounds in both languages... This interactive picture book is sure to be a young crowd-pleaser and storytime favorite.

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"Beautiful and detailed animals and insects... demonstrate how... everyday animals and insects... make sounds that may or may not be pronounced differently in two languages." — De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children

Blue Ribbon List, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Top Bilingual Books, Críticas

Cynthia Weill

Cynthia Weill's fascination with the crafts of Oaxaca began while she was working in Mexico as a Fulbright exchange teacher. She has published several books in the First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art series, which features different folk art of Oaxaca. Many of the figures showcased in this series are now part of the permanent Mesoamerican Anthropology collections at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Cindy lives in New York City and online at cynthiaweill.net.

The Aguilar Sisters -- Guillermina, Josefina, Irene, and Concepción --are Mexico's most beloved folk art artisans. They learned how to make clay figurines from their mother, and their humorous ceramics of the people of their town and state are in museum collections around the world. The sisters have been visited by the late Queen Elizabeth of England, the former Queen Sofía of Spain, and various Mexican presidents.

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781643796574
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Publication date
April 11, 2016
Series
First Concepts in Mexican Folk Art
BISAC categories
JNF003000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | General
JNF013100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Concepts | Sounds
JNF006060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Art | Sculpture
Library of Congress categories
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