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¡Marimba!

Animales from A to Z

by Pat Mora
Doug Cushman
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After the visitors have left the zoo and the animals have settled down for the night, a mischievous monkey starts a ting-tong rhythm on the marimba and slowly the animals awaken. Lions and llamas samba and cougars and coyotes conga as all the animals join in the fun to create a rollicking fiesta. Infused with Mexican American flavor, ?MARIMBA! is a unique alphabet book that also introduces the concept of cognates—words in different languages that are similar. Young Spanish speakers will be delighted to find they are already familiar with twenty-six words in English, and English speakers with find they already know some Spanish. Author's note, pronunciation guide, rebus dictionary.

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  • Release date

    May 5, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780547533575

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780547533575
      • File size: 38795 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • School Library Journal

      November 1, 2006
      PreS-Gr 1-This infectiously cheerful alphabet book includes both Spanish and English animal names (the author deliberately chose examples that are easily recognizable in both languages). Rhyming verses introduce pairs of letters: A chorus of lions and "llamas/"samba down the street./Mariachi "manaties" mambo/to marimbas ting-tong beat and Raccoons and "rinocerontes/"rumba with rattlesnakes./Sloths and "salamandras"/salsa around the lakes. A monkey playing a marimba soothingly croons the zookeepers to sleep and then pops up affably in most of the watercolor illustrations to entertain the various creatures that burst with energy and humor. The starlit sky that appears in most of the illustrations reminds readers that despite the brightness of the foreground, these frolicking animals are celebrating at night. Miniature visual representations of each Spanish word accompany a helpful pronunciation and translation guide. This freshly presented concept book will please children and may tempt librarians to share it at storytime."Kirsten Cutler, Sonoma County Library, CA"

      Copyright 2006 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • The Horn Book

      January 1, 2007
      After lulling the zookeepers to sleep, a marimba-playing monkey and the other [cf2]animales[cf1] party at the zoo. Most of the text in this lively alphabet book is in English, but each page includes a Spanish word (usually the name of an animal) that is a cognate. At times the generally rhythmic text is jarringly off beat. A translation and pronunciation guide is included.

      (Copyright 2007 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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