Arrorro mi nino Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games, Del Sol Books

$333.83 for the Story Collection Pura Belpre Spanish Set, Including 20%-Off, Free Shipping, and No Sales Tax : 2 Hardcover Spanish Book, 8 Hardcover Bilingual Book, 19 Softcover Spanish Books, and 12 Softcover Bilingual Books

$121.80 for Story Collection Orange Books Spanish Set, Including 20%-Off, Free Shipping, and No Sales Tax : 2 Hardcover Bilingual Books, 12 Softcover Spanish Books, and 1 Softcover Bilingual Book

Arrorro mi nino Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games, Del Sol Books

Pura Belpre Award Honor Book in 2006 for Illustration
Best Children's Books of the Year for 2005, Bank Street College of Education

A bilingual collection of traditional Latino baby games and lullabies from fourteen Spanish-speaking countries, complete with melodies for chanting and singing. It’s time to go to bed, and what better way to lull your child to sleep than with a tender song or gentle game? In this beautiful collection of classic Latino lullabies and games, mothers and children happily embrace and treasure their traditions while sharing the universal joy of the special bond between parent and child. Arrorró, mi niño, Lulu Delacre’s loving tribute to Latinos from all walks of American life, is sure to become a favorite with everyone who has a precious little child to love, cuddle, and sing to. Both the Spanish and English versions can easily be sung with the melodies at the back of the book.

Listen to Vienna Rose read Arrorro Mi Nino to you. A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.

"Warm illustrations with earth-toned backgrounds and more brightly dressed characters provide settings for this collection of 15 Spanish-language nursery rhymes. Delacre offers an English version of each rhyme—.most in free rather than rhyming verse; some more literal than others—and, at the back, musical settings for 11 of them. Several are pat-a-cake-style rhymes, involving harnd movements and basic rhythms. Others end with a child-pleasing tickle under the arm, and others are for soothing hurts or preparing a child for bed. Given the mostly free-verse settings of the English versions, these will be more useful as guides for non- or limited Spanish speakers who want to use the Spanish, rather than as free-standing poems for chanting together. A tender collection, most welcome for the home and perhaps also appropriate for some daycare or lapsit settings." –KIRKUS REVIEWS

"The short rhythmic compositions are accompanied by large watercolor illustrations showing Hispanic mothers and children. Warm colors and nuturing situations work well with the rhythms of the lullabies to produce a reassuring whole." –SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Lulu Delacre collects and illustrates comforting lullabies, in Spanish and English. . . . The rhythmic poems– presented side by side in both languages – also offer a line of simple instructions for how to play games with each. The end of the book provides sheet music (with arrangements by Cecilia Esquival and Diana Sáez) so youngsters can sing along with the rhymes. Full-bleed spreads and panel illustrations convey many tender moments, such as the toddlers sleeping on luminous clouds set against a rich blue sky in "Lindo Angelitos" ("Lovely Little Angels")." –PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"In a gift to mothers everywhere, Delacre includes all of the best known lullabies from the Latino culture– a veritable Latina Mother Goose. . . .The literal translations will make this book useful for bilingual literacy and for young English speakers trying to learn Spanish. Delacre’s oil wash illustrations capture many lovely scenes of mothers and grandmothers with young children. The pictures also offer glimpses of Latino life, from markets to playgrounds to fields to a librarian sharing a rhyme at a storytime. Instructions for the fingerplays are printed below the rhymes; for those rhymes that have known melodies, the music is included at the end of the book." –THE HORN BOOK

"The bright, beautiful oil-wash illustrations for these 15 lullabies, nursery rhymes, and finger-play games reflect the diversity of the Latino experience. The settings vary–– from city streets to picking fields; from cozy bedroom to library, school, art gallery, and grocery store––and the caregivers who soothe the children in the pictures include mother, father, sibling, and grandparent. . . . A native of Puerto Rico, editor Delacre lives in Maryland, and she draws the songs from 14 different countries to show and tell about children who grow up "learning and loving two cultures and two languages.". . .[I]n the best of them, the rhythm and poetry travel with music and fun. " –BOOKLIST