Author : Pat Mora, Illustrator : Francisco Mora, Translator : Alba Martinez
Preschool - 2nd Grade

Pachanga deliciosa - Delicious Hullabaloo

Pachanga deliciosa - Delicious Hullabaloo, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Pat Mora, Francisco, Alba Martinez, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781558852464, $16.95

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In this poem in English and Spanish, lizards, armadillos, and other creatures of the night make merry beneath the desert moon, enjoying the strains of a mariachi band and gobbling lots of delicious food.

School Library Journal : PreSchool-Grade 2-Told in both English and Spanish verse, this is the sometimes-nonsensical story of a group of armadillos and lizards that host a party for their animal friends. Many of the half-rhymed and rhymed couplets sound forced in English. The narrative reads slightly more smoothly in Spanish, but the poetry and story are unremarkable. The accompanying cartoon drawings are equally unimpressive, with purple-and-orange triangle patterns drawn on flattened, green lizards and purple armadillos. Much hullabaloo about nothing.

Booklist : Tonight, young and old / dance to moon and starlight too, / join in the fiesta, / the delicious hullabaloo." Lime lizards and purple armadillos sashay to the music of the rhyming text in this simple story of a desert dinner party. Presented bilingually with a Spanish translation by Alba Nora Martinez, this western frolic is winsomely illustrated in soft and soothing Southwestern shades. Slight but sassy, serve this one up with salsa and mariachi music.

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