Maria Had a Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita
Bilingual
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Everyone knows about Mary and her little lamb. But do you know Maria?
With gorgeous, Peruvian-inspired illustrations and English and Spanish retellings, Angela Dominguez's Maria Had a Little Llama / María Tenía Una Llamita gives a fresh new bilingual twist to the classic rhyme. Maria and her mischievous little llama will steal your heart.
Todos saben acerca de Mary y su corderito, pero, ¿conoce usted a María?
Con hermosas ilustraciones inspiradas en el Perú, Angela Dominguez nos ofrece una versión nueva y original de la rima clásica, en inglés y en español. María y su traviesa llamita le robarán el corazón.
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The familiar nursery rhyme underpins this peek into the landscape and culture of Peru. Dominguez's (Let's Go, Hugo) gouache-and-ink spreads portray a red-cheeked Maria and a llama with a curiously human face in cultivated mountain fields and a tiled-roofed village. Some spreads show novel combinations of traditional and modern life: Maria wears an Andean hat with earflaps, a heavy cape, and sandals, but her knapsack looks like that of any North American schoolchild. Each line of the rhyme appears with Spanish text below it ("Why does the llama love Maria so?"/ Por qu la llama le quiere tanto a Mar a?"), and even readers unfamiliar with Spanish can probably decode a few nouns and verbs. As a bonus, the pages contain lots of visual information about Peruvian village life the local market, the school, a traditional band but Maria's story takes center stage. She's a gentle reminder that you don't have to be an English speaker to be a nursery-rhyme hero. Likely to be of special interest to bilingual families and in elementary school classrooms. Ages 3 7.
