The Bossy Gallito / El gallo de bodas: A Traditional Cuban Folktale

by Lucía M. González, Lulu Delacre (Illustrator)

Overview

Erase una vez un gallito mandon que iba muy limpiecito a la boda de su tio Perico... Hasta que se ensucio y quiso que todos lo ayudaran a volver a estar limpiecito. Un libro muy divertido en ingles y espanol que deleitara tanto a grandes como a chicos.

Érase una vez un gallito mandón que iba muy limpiecito a la boda de su tío Perico... Hasta que se ensució y quiso que todos lo ayudarán a volver a estar limpiecito. Un libro muy divertido en inglés y español que deleitará tanto a grandes como a chicos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780439067577
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Edition description:	English-Spanish Bilingual Edition
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	176,380
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.10(d)
Language:	Spanish
Lexile:	590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Lulu Delacre was born to Argentinian parents and grew up in Puerto Rico. Her award-winning books for children include GOLDEN TALES: MYTHS, LEGENDS AND FOLKTALES FROM LATIN AMERICA; ARROZ CON LECHE: POPULAR SONGS AND RHYMES FROM LATIN AMERICA; and her Scholastic Pura Belpre Award Honor Book, THE BOSSY GALLITO (text by Lucia M. Gonzalez). You can visit her online at www.luludelacre.com!

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 5-This classic, cumulative, bilingual story from Cuba centers around a greedy little rooster (gallito) who gobbles up some corn and gets mud on his beak. He asks the grass to clean it off, but the grass says, "`I will not.'" He then asks a goat to eat the grass, receives the same response, requests a stick to hit the goat, with the same result, and so on. At last he politely asks the sun- who owes him a favor for crowing it up every morning-to solve the problem, and all the other entities involved back down. Beak cleaned, the gallito is sharp-looking for his Uncle Parrot's wedding. The text is in a slightly syncopated verse that reads just as well in English as it does in Spanish. Indeed, the cadence may make the connection between the two languages clearer than it would be otherwise. The mixed-media illustrations are intriguing. Delacre uses birds native to the Caribbean as anthropomorphic characters; they observe traditional wedding customs, all of which are explained in the back of the book in both Spanish and English. Both text and pictures are bordered by ovals, giving the pages a formal, framed look that points up the riotous colors of the artwork and the action of the story. A fine introduction to Cuban folklore that adapts itself well either to ESL classrooms or story times.-Ann Welton, Terminal Park Elementary School, Auburn, WA

School Library Journal

En camino a la boda de su tío Perico, el gallito mandón se ensucia el pico. Ahora necesita limpiarse el pico, pero nadie quiere ayudar a uno tan mandón. Así empieza este cuento tradicional recontado en su versión cubana con gracia por la voz agradable de Lucía González. Esta grabación ofrece a los lectores varias maneras de escuchar el cuento. Se lo puede oír entero con cada página leída en el inglés seguido por el español. O, se puede escuchar solamente en cualquiera de estos dos idiomas. De cualquiera manera, la repetición y la cualidad lírica, o más bien melódica, de la voz de González hacen que esta lectura sea una experiencia en que todos querrán tomar parte. J.A.G.



[ENGLISH TRANSLATION]--On the way to his Uncle Perico's wedding, the bossy little rooster gets his beak dirty. Now he needs to clean it, but nobody wants to help such a bossy individual. So begins this traditional story in its Cuban version, as charmingly told in a pleasant voice by Lucía González. This audiobook offers its listeners several ways to hear the story. They may listen to it as it appears in the actual book, with each page being read first in English and then in Spanish, or they may listen to the entire story in one language or the other. In any event, the repetition and the lyrical qualities of Gonzalez's voice make this reading an experience everyone will want to enjoy. J.A.G., L.R.P., trans. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2010 - AudioFile