El forastero y el gallo rojo - The Stranger and the Red Rooster, Del Sol Books

Author : Victor Villaseñor, Illustrator : Jose Jara, Translator : Gabriela Baeza Ventura
Preschool - 2nd Grade

El forastero y el gallo rojo - The Stranger and the Red Rooster

El forastero y el gallo rojo - The Stranger and the Red Rooster, Hardcover, Bilingual, Book, Victor Villaseñor, Jose Jara, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 1558854207, # 10207h, $15.95

Acclaimed Chicano author shares another family story in this bilingual picture book

One day in a small California barrio, a scary-looking stranger with an ugly scar on his face arrives. Silence falls on the streets. Normally raucous children stop playing, and their fearful mothers quickly beckon them inside. Everyone peeks out of windows and doors to watch the stranger walk down Main Street. Later in the week, the stranger again appears in town. And a few days later, on a pleasant Sunday morning, the man shows his frightening face yet again. But this time, he’s not alone. Cradled in the stranger’s arms is a big, red rooster with a yellow ribbon tied around its neck. When the rooster sets off after a bug with the stranger hanging on to the ribbon “like a cowboy who had lassoed a wild bull,” the townspeople are finally able to look past the long, ugly scar on the stranger’s face. Echoing the oral tradition common to so many Latinos, acclaimed author Victor Villaseñor shares with young readers one of his father’s favorite stories. With vibrant illustrations by José Jara, this will soon become the favorite of many children aged 3 to 7.

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

Acclaimed Chicano author brings another family story in to the written tradition

Conveys principled message about not judging people by appearance

Text is presented bilingually in English and Spanish

Lively illustrations accompany the text

"Villaseñor’s attention to Mother Fox’s delight in her children and her open awareness that she too is a carnivore make this not only a worthy addition to earlier coyote stories, but also a pointed reminder of the cycle of the wild." -Kirkus Reviews on Mother Fox and Mr. Coyote / Mamá Zorra y Don Coyote

"…with vibrant, stylized illustrations and swirling backgrounds of brilliant colors…The text offer[s] great opportunities for reading alone or dramatizing as a play." -Booklist on The Frog and His Friends Save Humanity / La rana y sus amigos salvan a la humanidad

"…intensely colored, stylized art shows a natural world full of bright sunlight, richly shadowed crow feathers, and backgrounds with subtle layers of color…strength lies in its traditional origins, its striking illustrations, and the overall message that, occasionally, children can teach their parents a thing or two." -Booklist on Little Crow to the Rescue / El Cuervito al rescate

School Library Journal : Grade 2-4 – A stranger dressed in shabby clothes and with a horribly scarred face comes to Carlsbad, CA, causing all the mothers in the barrio to hide their children. For a week, the townspeople sneak peeks at him from behind their closed doors and drawn shades, wondering who he is and why he has come. On Sunday morning, he walks by the church with a fine big rooster in his arms. The glorious bird, sporting a jaunty yellow ribbon around his neck like a leash, drags his owner up and down the street as it races after bugs. The comical sight of the now-familiar man being yanked about by his pet breaks the ice and brings the locals close enough for a chat. Before long, various families have invited him home for supper and accepted him into the community. This well-written story is competently adapted into Spanish (both languages appear on the same page) and illustrated with attractive, brightly colored, naive-style paintings. A quiet, yet tenderhearted story with touches of humor.

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