Author :
Alma Flor Ada,
F.
Isabel Campoy,
Illustrator : Claudia Legnazzi
Preschool - 2nd Grade
Todo es cancion
Todo es cancion,
Softcover, Spanish, Book,
Alma Flor Ada,
Preschool - 2nd Grade, 9781616051730, $12.95
$277.52 for the Story Collection Green Books and CDs Spanish Set, Including 20%-Off, Free Shipping, and No Sales Tax : 1 Hardcover Spanish Book, 15 Softcover Spanish Books, 2 Softcover Spanish Oversized Books, 1 Spanish Big Book, 2 Spanish Storytelling CDs, 1 Bilingual Storytelling CD, and 1 Spanish Music CD
This
delightful book gathers a selection of the most notable poems written by Alma
Flor Ada Latina writer, teacher, and passionate advocate for bilingual and
bicultural education in the US. Organized by curriculum themes, this anthology
is a fundamental tool for teachers who rely on imagination, play, and creativity
to expand concepts and to enrich students vocabulary. Some of the themes
included in the anthology are the parts of the body, numbers, vowels, family,
animals, the city and the countryside, food, nature, bilingualism, and much more.
K-Gr 4–Ada has edited a number of lovely books of traditional rhymes, but Todo es canción (Everything Is Song) gives her a chance to showcase her own poetry. The selections are organized by theme. “For Laughing and Playing” includes traditional rhymes, with tales of cats and mice and hens. “In School” includes counting rhymes, and “My Books” is a gift for librarians everywhere to share with children. There are selections that will encourage movement, and those that can be adapted as fingerplays. “Sun and Foam,” “Dreams and Fantasies,” and “The Power of Words” all contain thoughtful and powerful pieces. The whole is summed up in the final poem, in which Ada celebrates the song in everything around us, and ends by saying, essentially, “Because you have been born, life wants to sing.” This book is to Latino children what Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses is to English-speaking youngsters. It is not just a poetry anthology, but truly a lasting contribution to Latino literature that belongs in every library that serves young Spanish-speakers and their parents.
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