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Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy, acclaimed authors and scholars of Latino literature, have spent years culling popular and beloved lullabies, jump-rope songs, riddles, proverbs, and more from all over the Spanish-speaking world. The result is the most comprehensive bilingual folklore collection available in this country. Full of charm and humor, rich with the diversity of Latino cultures, this one-of-a-kind treasury is the perfect introduction to Latino folklore for English speakers, and a trove of familiar favorites for Spanish speakers.

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Gathering fresh material, Ada and colleagues expand the scope of Pio Peep! Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes (2003) to include not only baby songs, but riddles, proverbs, play rhymes, jump-rope rhymes, a circular tale and even a funny ballad about a dead cat brought back to life by the smell of sardines. Except for English-only section introductions, the contents-index included-are bilingual, Spanish first, with the English translations editorially tweaked into rhyme: Una, dos, y tres / pluma, tintero y papel / para escribir una carta / a mi querido Miguel, becomes One, two three / paper, ink and pen / all to write a letter / to my sweetheart Ben. Suarez decorates the pages with smiling, round-faced, sweet-looking children and animals bouncing about exuberantly. As there are no source notes and the compilers even tuck in a few insufficiently identified poems of their own, this wins no high marks for scholarship-but young listeners singing or clapping along won't mind. (Bilingual poetry. 3-8) (Kirkus Reviews)

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