Me gustaria tener, How Happy I Would Be, Del Sol Books

Author : Alma Flor Ada, Illustrator : Vivi Escriva, Translator : Bernice Randall, Musician : Suni Paz
Preschool - 2nd Grade

Me gustaria tener
How Happy I Would Be

Me gustaria tener, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781581051940, # 4003s, $7.95
Me gustaria tener, Softcover, Spanish, Big Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781581051933, # 4003b, $29.00
Me gustaria tener, Spanish, Cassette, Suni Paz, Preschool - 5th Grade, 1581052553, # 2503, $9.95 Listen
How Happy I Would Be, Softcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781581052282, # 4004s, $7.95
How Happy I Would Be, Softcover, English, Big Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781581052275, # 4004b, $29.00
How Happy I Would Be, English, Cassette, Preschool - 5th Grade, 1581053223, # 2504, Out of Print :(

Me gustaria tener, How Happy I Would Be! Surprise-filled illustrations awaken children’s imaginations and inspire their creativity. Many teachers tell us how much their students love this book, and how motivated the students are to make their own books following this pattern.

Authors Note : To play with rhyme and to imagine unique situations give me joy, a joy I suspect many children share. Teachers have told me many times how much their students enjoy this book and how it motivates them to make their own books following the pattern. And in the bookshelf I have dedicated to collecting the books made by children and given to me as gifts, there are quite a few inspired by this book.

School Library Journal : About Stories for the Telling : A charming series, illustrated with watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings. The stories are told in a humorous style and are enhanced throughout by Ada's gift for language and poetry. El Canto del mosquito / The Song of the Teene Tiny Mosquito is the droll story of a frog who eats a mosquito and whose song then sounds like that of a mosquito. The frog is eaten by a fish, who then sings like a mosquito, etc. Una extraña vista / Strange Visitors is a humorous counting story of the days of the week in rhyme. Me gustaría tener… / How Happy I Would Be… . . . lists the various things ``I would like to have . . .'' Again in a counting - book format, the desired items all turn out to be animals involved in unusual activities (e.g. two giraffes reading with glasses). ¿Quién nacerá aquí? / Who’s hatching Here? ., in contrast to the others, is a science book. Rhyming riddles ask which animal will hatch from different eggs. The eggs are presented in their natural habitats; both illustrations and text hint at the answers.

Listen to Vienna Rose read How Happy I Would Be to you. A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.