Dia de mercado, Market Day, Del Sol Books

Author : Lois Ehlert, Illustrator : Lois Ehlert, Translators : Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy
Preschool - 2nd Grade

Dia de mercado
Market Day

Dia de mercado, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Lois Ehlert, Lois Ehlert, Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 0152168141, # 6041s, $7.00
Market Day, Softcover, English, Book, Lois Ehlert, Lois Ehlert, Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 0152168206, # 6042s, $7.00
Market Day, Hardcover, English, Book, Lois Ehlert, Lois Ehlert, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 0152021582, # 6042h, $17.00

Best Illustrated Children's Book, The New York Times Book Review. ABA's Pick of the Lists. This story of a day's journey to the market is created entirely from folk-art objects and textiles, stunning in color and form.

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

Amazon : It's market day! Wake up and feed the red rooster and chickens. Get the vegetables ready, and let's go! This market is no run-of-the-mill everyday market. This is a farmer's market created entirely from folk-art objects and textiles. Collected and photographed by Lois Ehlert, these beautiful "primitive" pieces of art are stunning in color and form. A two-page reference guide at the end of the book describes where each object came from, and what it is made of. From Mexico to Africa to the United States to Indonesia, this stunning collection is worth many hours of perusal. The accompanying text, describing the day's journey to the market, and the activities to partake in once there, takes a distant second to the star of the show--the artwork. Cotton-and-yarn mice dolls from Indonesia ride an African motorcycle made from discarded metal containers, wire, bike chain, rubber, and plastic. A painted wood rooster from Guatemala watches over papier-mâché vegetables from the U.S. and Mexico. Market Day is a truly stunning picture book, sure to impress and enchant readers of all ages.

Caldecott winner Lois Ehlert is no stranger to arts-and-crafts-inspired picture books, as evidenced by her Hands and Snowballs, among many other unique and wonderful titles. (Ages 4 to 8)

Publishers Weekly : Ehlert parades her personal collection of folk art, hailing from countries as diverse as Guatemala, Indonesia and Africa, across crisply designed pages in this exuberant picture book. Ages 3-7.

School Library Journal : Kindergarten-Grade 4-Ever-innovative Ehlert enlists brief, rhyming text and photographed folk art to illustrate the preparation for and journey to market to sell vegetables. Jewel-toned dolls, baskets, flowers, and toys from the Americas, Africa, China, and Indonesia tempt readers to touch the items to try to experience the mix of textures. Young children will be captivated by the rhythm and colors, while older students will be inspired by the glorious array of handmade objects. A concluding picture dictionary of the exhibited folk art identifies each piece by materials and country of origin. A festive outing, with a gorgeous assortment of objects in vivid, eye-catching colors.

Booklist : The rhymes are simple and easy: "Pull up some carrots. / Shake off the dirt. / Pack the tomatoes. / Tuck in your shirt." It's time for the farmers' market; the truck is loaded with produce. We drive past birds and fishes, sheep and snakes, and see an oxcart ferrying a very large watermelon and a corn-bearing basket on an origami-inspired motorbike. At the market, people buy and sell, work and play, until they return home, newly laden with good things to eat. All of the brilliantly colored and arranged images are created from pieces of folk art from Africa, China, and South America, which are identified in a pictorial key at the back. Ehlert has put her many talents to use here, creating coherent and eye-filling tableaux from a wide variety of articles and materials. Don't miss the Mexican tin sun shining on the top-heavy produce truck near gamboling Colombian textile sheep, or the fabulous African blue-beaded ox with a mouth full of Mexican papier-machecarrots.

Kirkus Reviews : Once again Ehlert (Top Cat, 1998, etc.) has created a vibrant and fascinating picture book by arranging and photographing pieces of folk art from her collection, this time against backdrops of Guatemalan and Colombian textiles. Carved and painted wooden chickens perch in front of a backdrop of appliquéd chickens, as the family feeds them corn before packing up the produce to take to market. In a whimsically painted clay truck, they go past the fish and frogs that swim near the bridge / and past the sheep that graze on the ridge. Among others going to market are mice dolls from Indonesia on an African cycle made of discarded metal containers, wire, bike chain, rubber, and plastic. A wooden jaguar passes by with a tomato and later a carrot in its mouth, and a clay possum pulls a cart holding a single papier-mâché turnip. Part of the pleasure of the book is in scrutinizing the ingenious details of the folk art, and the way they've been combined to tell the story. There's an element of childlike play in this, reminiscent of the way children create and act out stories by combining toys of various origins and disparate sizes, and through the power of imagination create a world that is entirely their own. Ehlert has created a similarly captivating world within these pages. A two-paged catalogue of artifacts, their composition, and their origins completes the picture. (Picture book. 3-7)

Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, School Library Journal, July 2000
"A festive outing, with a gorgeous assortment of objects in vivid, eye-catching colors."

Spanish Translations by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy :