Animal Talk
Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish
By: Cynthia Weill
Illustrator: Rubí Fuentes and Efraín Broa
Listen to the sounds in the world of animals! We got Meow and Miau. Animals chatter in Spanish and English.
Book Details
Hardback:
10-digit ISBN: 1-941026-32-8
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-941026-32-8
Board Book:
10-digit ISBN: 1-941026-69-4
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-941026-69-4
Details
Language: Bilingual - English & Spanish
Page Count: 32
Hardback Publication Date: May 23, 2015
Rights: All Rights Available
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Kirkus Reviews
A beautiful, playful, childcentric approach to language learning—and if it spawns conversations about dialects, so much the better.
School Library Journal
This interactive picture book is sure to be a young crowd-pleaser and storytime favorite.
De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children
Animal Talk: Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish, probably the most beautiful and detailed animals and insects in the series, demonstrate how sounds from everyday animals and insects (roosters, kitties, fish, goats, tigers, cows, horses, dogs, frogs, piggies, lions, snakes, turkeys, and owls) make sounds that may or may not be pronounced differently in two languages. For example, Roosters say Cock-a-Doodle-Doo. Can you? / Los gallos dicen Ki-Kiri-Ki. ¿Puedes tú? But fish say “glub-glub” in both languages. And the humor is sometimes slyly tucked in for the benefit of children who may be bilingual: Turkeys say Gobble Gobble / Los pavos dicen Gordo Gordo (!) The back cover, which may be my favorite, clearly and hilariously demonstrates how and why this all works: Sometimes they’re talking to you. / A veces me están hablando a mí.—Beverly Slapin