A review by ec_dee13
Flutter & Hum / Aleteo Y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales by Julie Paschkis

5.0

This book, on the 2016 list of notable poetry books selected by a NCTE committee, is a bilingual anthology of animal poems. Each page features a different animal with a poem in English and Spanish. The poems are not completely direct translations, but rather ones that keep the meaning the same despite not using the exact same words. In the author’s note, she explains that the always wrote first in Spanish and then English because her English is “more flexible.” The pictures are gorgeous, and full of other words that describe the scene. This book would be great to read at any age in elementary, but I think would be excellent to use in talking about imagery in poetry at the higher end of the elementary school. An especially great choice for a bilingual or ESL classroom.