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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
A wonderful bilingual retelling of The Princess and the Pea. Very cute but 20 children seems like a lot...
Fun retelling of the Princess and the Pea using Spanish words interwoven in the text.
My students are going to LOVE this book! Of course, the girls ask for anything with a princess in it but I love the Spanish influence to this story and I think they will too. This would make a good read aloud because the students love to show me how to properly pronounce the Spanish words and I like how the author created a good rhythm with the words.
I bought this for Berry for Christmas because I love books with Spanish smattered throughout and I adored the illustrations. Throw in a fairytale and all of my boxes were checked. I positively adore this story, especially the "twist" on the original tale. I literally laughed out loud at some of the adult humor at the end. Also, the cat illustrations are great! Berry giggled every time she saw it.
A bilingual re-imagination of a classic fairy tale, La Princesa and the Pea weaves English, Spanish, and Peruvian textiles into a memorable story.
The story is told in clean, effective rhymes that flow. The book incorporates a Spanish word in most verses, and -- usually -- the word's English meaning can be deciphered from the context of the other words and/or the accompanying illustrations. The book adds more and more Spanish as the story continues. If you're unsure of a word's English meaning or its Spanish pronunciation, the book provides an indispensable glossary.
The illustrations are the kind of soft drawings you feel like you could curl up in, even if there were a rock-hard pea tucked underneath the pages.
In 2017, I often wish for a post-modern twist in these retellings -- like the Princesa doesn't marry the príncipe and have twenty niños -- but this is not that book. Still a delightful story with fun rhymes and a use of Spanish vocabulary that challenges the readers to understand the meanings of non-basic words.
The story is told in clean, effective rhymes that flow. The book incorporates a Spanish word in most verses, and -- usually -- the word's English meaning can be deciphered from the context of the other words and/or the accompanying illustrations. The book adds more and more Spanish as the story continues. If you're unsure of a word's English meaning or its Spanish pronunciation, the book provides an indispensable glossary.
The illustrations are the kind of soft drawings you feel like you could curl up in, even if there were a rock-hard pea tucked underneath the pages.
In 2017, I often wish for a post-modern twist in these retellings -- like the Princesa doesn't marry the príncipe and have twenty niños -- but this is not that book. Still a delightful story with fun rhymes and a use of Spanish vocabulary that challenges the readers to understand the meanings of non-basic words.
This is most fun reading aloud! The flow is beautiful and the art is amazing!! There is a glossary in the front with all of the Spanish words used and their meetings. This has got to be my favorite imagining of this old tale.
This is a very cute twist on the traditional fairytale “The Princess and the Pea”, and this fractured fairytale would be a great addition to any elementary school library collection.
Well, I like this a hell of a lot more than La Madre Goose, at least. Still, this book falls into many of the traps of that last one--the rhyme is actually on point, it's just that it's done with Spanish words that don't naturally fit in with the structure of Spanglish. The illustrations, though: LOVE! I love that they are very obviously Peruvian, so you know it's not just another European story or a generically "diverse" one, and I also love how the potential princesses are so diverse. Martinez-Neal's illustrations are what would happen if de Grazia sucked less and used color better.
Read for outreach at SLO Makerspace daycamp for the Maidens & Minstrels: Fantasy! theme week - July 13th, 2018
A wonderful addition to this classic fairy-tale with Peruvian inspired illustrations. Many Spanish words sprinkled in. I missed a few clues that supports the ending. Each time I read it I found something new! I loved the cat!!