Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Los Gatos Black on Halloween by Marisa Montes





Although the illustrations in this book were fabulously dark and spooky, I appreciated the story as well. The story begins be describing all the scary ghosts and ghouls that lurk around Halloween. In the description of these monsters, Spanish and English words are intermingled. When Spanish words are used, meanings are easily identified by the English words that follow. However, there is also a glossary in the back of the book. At the end of the story, we learn the only thing that scares all of these creepy ghouls are....little trick or treaters!


I think this is a really cool book and an easy way to introduce or reinforce a second language to a young child.

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