Join in the lastest fun from a Pura Belpré Honor-winning team. These Fiesta Babies dance, march on parade, and sing along to mariachi songs in their spirited celebration of fiestas. From piñatas to flower coronas, little ones are introduced to the many coloful aspects of an important and lively Latino cultural tradition.
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From School Library Journal
PreS—Short lines of bouncy, rhyming text describe how several adorable, chubby babies and toddlers participate in their local Hispanic celebration. For instance, "Fiesta Babies march on parade/wearing coronas Mamá has made." These lines of text stand alone on a page, embellished with the detail of a gaily decorated lamppost that echoes the street scene opposite. The length and rhythm of the text make this book an excellent choice for toddler and preschool storytimes. Córdova once again demonstrates how her award-winning style brilliantly brings an author's words to life. Her bold acrylic colors and brisk brushstrokes capture the fiesta's energy and good cheer. The images of sombreros, serapes, and papel picado are firmly rooted in Mexican culture, and the artist shows black, brown, and white babies celebrating this fiesta together. A short glossary explains the Spanish words in a child-friendly context. For example, the definition for beso (kiss) adds that babies often are taught to blow little kisses, or besitos. This is a sweet, simple book, and its simplicity contributes to its excellence as well as its charm.—Mary Landrum, Lexington Public Library, KY
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This small, square book contains many mirthful moments as a cast of multicultural fiesta babies enjoy the excitement of a parade as well as more personal experiences, like listening to Grandpa’s favorite mariachi song. Using a simple rhyme scheme, the story gets most of its bang from Córdova’s naive-style artwork. Featuring toddlers with skin tones dark as chocolate or as light as peaches and cream and every shade in between, the pictures are full of joy as the children stumble and tumble through the neighborhood, singing, dancing, playing instruments—and eating salsa. In one particularly appropriate spread, readers learn that fiesta babies love fiestas, but they also don’t mind siestas. The Spanish words sprinkled throughout can be understood in context, but there is also a short glossary at book’s end. Preschool-Kindergarten. --Ilene Cooper
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Format:Hardcover
This book Fiesta Babies is a sweet and fun little book, great for very young children. The book has few words with bright and colorful illustrations that portray little children in a fun atmosphere. The accompanying text is simple and short with a fun rhyming scheme. Carmen Tafolla incorporates words in Spanish into the English stanzas. The children in the book are seen having fun with different aspects specific to the Hispanic culture, such as mariachi songs and chips with salsa. The book ends with a sweet illustration of the babies with their loving family. This would be a wonderful book for children to show culture while emphasizing the similarities with their own culture. Within the book, the babies are seen playing around and having a good time, but still loving a good nap, and sharing kisses and hugs with their family. These are qualities that all young children can relate to, even within a different culture.
By Stephj3
Format:Hardcover
I think this book is rich in the Hispanic/Latino culture showing the many festivities of celebrations and involving the local community and family members. I like the book because I have connections with this book in that here in San Antonio we celebrate Fiesta and my family goes to the parades and attends the festivities that downtown San Antonio has to offer for Fiesta. The pictures of the book are amazing and colorful. The colors bring out the book and bring life to what a Fiesta is. From Pinatas to the food that is rich in the Hispanic tradition, the book sets the theme for the many traditions of the culture. I would read this to my students in class especially around Fiesta time here in San Antonio. This book can help serve as a learning tool for the culture and making a lesson for students in classrooms.
By mescalera21
Format:Hardcover
Fiesta Babies should be a great read for children between the ages of 3-7. It's a very colorful story about babies and toddlers marching through different places celebrating their Latino Culture it reminded me of San Antonio TX. The author uses short rhyming sentences to describe the celebration but the wonderful pictures of the book just bring the story and the words to life. This book would make a great read aloud in a classroom. Definitely recommend.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Fiesta Time is Party Time
The illustrations in this book are very ethnic scenes of what a fiesta looks like and the layout of them make an impact on the story. Read more
Published 6 months ago by ac07
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fiesta Babies Review:
What a great children's book. This was a fun, colorful, and culturally inspiring picture book. Each page had a fun rheumatic tone to it and also incorporated Spanish words to give... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Lauren Singleton
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Fiesta babies
This book does a wonderful job of highlighting a cherished cultural celebration in San Antonio. Great book for emergent literacy readers, and also parents/teachers to model... Read more
Published 12 months ago by jermainea1
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