Una extrana visita, Strange Visitors, Del Sol Books

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

Una extrana visita
Strange Visitors

Una extrana visita, Softcover, Spanish, Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781581051926, $7.95
Strange Visitors, Softcover, English, Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781581051926, $7.95
Strange Visitors, Softcover, English, Big Book, Alma Flor Ada, Vivi Escriva, Bernice Randall, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9780882728032, $29.00
Libros para contar CD, Spanish, CD, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781603963466, $16.95 Listen
Stories for the Telling CD, English, CD, Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781603963473, $16.95 Listen

Una extrana visita, Strange Visitors Each day of the week a new set of visitors appears, bringing with them rhythm and joy. A wonderful book for choral reading and play acting. Children learn the days of the week as a game and become acquainted with different animals and musical instruments.

Authors Note : Writing this book was a pleasurable exercise. I wrote it specifically before a visit to a first grade class in Santa Barbara, California. I wanted to bring the children a model that they could use to create their own books. It’s been a true satisfaction to see through the years how many other classes have used the book for the same purpose. And a joy to witness how many children know the text by heart and delight repeating it.

In this cumulative tale different animals appear each day of the week, each playing a different instrument until they all join in a wonderful Sunday jarana. The recording, done by a talented duo of a mother and her young daughter, presents the instruments in a joyful way that will facilitate that children learn to recognize their sound. The young listeners can join the daughter in her responses making the listening an interactive experience.

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 Strange Visitors to you. A marvelous example of the magical encounter between a child and books that we wish for all children.