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Listen to the Desert (Oye al desierto)
[ISBN9780618111442]

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Listen to the Desert (Oye al desierto)
A bilingual account of some of the animals and sounds commonly found in the Southwestern desert. Each double-page spread depicts a vast expanse of light blue sky with four lines of text two in English and two in Spanish on the verso, and a different creature or scene on the recto. . . . The translations are appropriate and provide an excellent opportunity to compare the sounds in the two languages. . . . The illustrations evoke Native American art in shapes and colors, and the bottoms of the pages are adorned with geometric designs. This book is a good choice for reading aloud; young audiences will enjoy the predictable, repetitive text, and its bilingual format enhances its appeal in a variety of multicultural settings. School Library Journal. A very simple text, with each line repeated twice in English plus twice in Spanish, becomes a rhythmic, lyrical bilingual chant suggesting the onomatopoeic powers of both tongues. . . . A brightly decorative geometric motif runs

Grade Level: K, 1-3

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Listen to the Desert (Oye al desierto)[ISBN9780618111442]

Listen to the Desert (Oye al desierto)
[ISBN9780618111442]