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3.25 AVERAGE
3.25 AVERAGE
Age: Preschool
Animal: Jungle, jaguar
Lovely watercolor accompanies this story based on a Mayan myth of the mighty jaguar. The story is bookend with a brief description of Mayans and the end includes a cry for help to save the endangered jaguar.
Animal: Jungle, jaguar
Lovely watercolor accompanies this story based on a Mayan myth of the mighty jaguar. The story is bookend with a brief description of Mayans and the end includes a cry for help to save the endangered jaguar.
There is not much of a plot--only the nightly prowling of the jaguar, who is born from the rain and turns into the morning sun--but the language is rich and the illustrations hauntingly lovely. Would be a nice read aloud for a class learning about the jaguar's habitat, or for an art class.
The best thing about this book is the illustrations. It might hook kids if they heard it read by a highly skilled storyteller, but overall the story is a bit ho-hum.