Outstanding Children's Books in Spanish

books now being published in Spanish, teachers, Hen) [Hungary]. Despite the unappealing ps-clibrarians and other interested adults must still be sentation, uninteresting title, textbook-hike coves-, reminded of the great number of dull, moralistic black-and-white line illustrations and cheap pabooks that do not entice youngsters into the per of this paperback publication, all children world of reading (Isabel Schon,Books in Spanish will delight in these hong-time favorites. The for Children and Young Adults. Metuchen, N.J.: tales arc definitely well-told and easy to s-cad or The Scarecrow Press, 1989). The following, to listen to. however, arc outstanding fiction and nonfiction books recently published in Spain, Venezuela, Amery, Heather. The First Hundred Words Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Great Britin Spanish. Illus: Stephen Canwright. Translated am, and the United States that will appeal to by Jane Strakes-. London: Usborne Publishing, Spanish-speaking readers everywhere as well as Ltd, 1988. 134p. ISBN; 0-7460-0366-8. $6.35. readers on the FLES* level: Gr. Pk-2. Children arc introduced to their first one hunAldunate, Elena..... .yAlejandra.(Ur.. and dred words in Spanish through appropriate waAlejandra). Illus. Cuca Bus-chard. 46p. ISBN; tcs-cohos-ihlustrationsandthcirEnglishtranslations. 956-11-0219-5. Gr. 6-8. It includes such scenes as in the hiving room, Beuchat, Cecilia and Mabel Condemarmn. getting dressed, in the kitchen, doing the dishes, A ver, a ver. vamos a leer? (Let's See, Let's See, play time, in the bathroom and others. Shall We Read?). Illus: Susana Campillo. 64p. ISBN: 956-11-0717-0. Gs-. 3-6. Barbot, Daniel. Un diente se mueve. (ALoose Ea. vol.: (El Jardin de los Suefios) Santiago: Tooth). Illus: Gian Calvi. Caracas: Ediciones Editorial Universitaria, 1989. pap. $5.80. Ekard Banco dcl Libro, 1990. [24p.] ISBN: Long descriptions and dull moralistic mes980-257-066-4. pap. $4.25. Gr. 1-3. sages about hove and life make Ur..yAlejandra This is the third edition of the amusing story a sure bore. On the other hand, A ver, a ver, about Clarisse, a little girl, who is worried about vamos a leer? is a wonderful collection of six losing her first tooth. She has heard that a mouse well-known tales: El nabo (The Turnip) (Ruscomes to take her tooth. So, the night she loses sia), El pastor y el lobo (The Shepherd and the her tooth, she puts it under her pillow and when Wolf) [Greece], Los tres cabritos Gruff (Three she wakes up the next morning she finds a coin Billy Goats Gruff) [Norway], La ten quita, (La instead of her tooth. Clarisse then realizes she is tenquita, a little bird from Chile) [Chile], La not dreaming at all. Colorful illustrations suppletortilla corredora (The Runaway Pancake) Lts-ament the simple text

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