Tell me a cuento, cuéntame un story [Paperback]

Joe Hayes (Author), Geronimo Garcia (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

The perfect resource for parents who despair of getting their children to sit still and listen. The stories, colorfully illustrated in a sharp, bright style reminiscent of cut-paper art, bring with them an interactive approach to storytelling, a clever use of word patterns and rhythms and a boisterous wealth of songs, chants and repeated refrains.—Books for Children, Clemson University

"Tell Me a Cuento is just plain charming. Billed as a bilingual early reader, it also makes a great read-aloud-and-look-at-the pictures book for parents and children."—New Mexico Magazine

Contains four of Joe's most popular stories:

Do you know what a Terrible Tragadabas is? Or why the bossy rooster José can’t go to the wedding of his Uncle Perico? Or who gets to marry the butterfly, La Mariposa—the pig, the dog, the cat or the mouse? Or how come the elves gave the poor woman a pot of gold? Well, good news! Nationally known storyteller Joe Hayes teams up with illustrator Geronimo Garcia to answer all these questions with four of his most popular tales told in English and Spanish. Also available in single-book form while supplies last, these four stories have now been anthologized for the first time.

The Terrible Tragadabas
El Terrible Tragadabas (Spanish)

No Way, José!
¡De Ninguna Manera, José! (Spanish)

Mariposa, Mariposa
Mariposa, Mariposa (Spanish)

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Oh!
¡Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, O! (Spanish)

Teacher's Guide available!
Using a Bilingual Storybook in the Classroom
A Teacher’s Guide to Tell Me a Cuento / Cuéntame un story
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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 3-Both the English and the Spanish versions of these often-told stories are written in the spare language of storytelling, a style poorly suited to the picture-book format. All four have been previously published as individual books (Trails West) and higher-quality versions of two of them, "Mariposa, Mariposa" and "No Way, Jose!," appear in Judy Sierra's The Flannel Board Storytelling Book (Wilson, 1987) and in Lucia Gonzalez and Lulu Delacre's picture book, The Bossy Gallito/El gallo de bodas (Scholastic, 1994). Superior variations of "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Oh!" and "The Terrible Tragadabas" include Robert D. San Souci's retelling of the African-American tale The Talking Eggs (Dial, 1989) and Sierra's "The Goat in the Turnip Field." Some of the more masterful presentations are also bilingual, such as Judy Sierra's Multicultural Folktales (Oryx, 1991). With no source notes and with unremarkable cartoon art, these retellings will be of little interest to librarians, storytellers, or children. -Denise E. Agosto, formerly at Midland County Public Library, TX
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Review

Let's hear it for the storyteller, the person who passes on to the next generation tales of a family, a culture, a region...That's what Joe Hayes does. He listens, he reads and he retells them. The proof is being there, as I was for several of his animated readings...El Paso's Geronimo Garcia did the fanciful, eye-catching, soft-toned illustrations for the book. From the front cover all the way to the final page of the final story, Garcia's art is a delight -- Albuquerque Journal, September 6, 1998

Thanks for the new version of Cuéntame un Story...My five-year-old son has a stack of Spanish kids' story books taller than Pancho Villa's statue in Tucson Park. I have spoken only Spanish to him since his birth...However, the single most useful "aid" to his learning to speak Spanish is and was Tell Me a Cuento. He listened to the tapes, both sides alternately, over and over, and I have read El Terrible Tragadabas so many times it is as imprinted in my brain as the stewardesses instructions on Aero Mosca. I think you could replace the entire U.S. bilingual education program, including the State Department crash course and Univision, with an annual new release of Tell Me A Cuento and we'd be world leaders again. It is so good, I'm not sure y'all really understand what you've got. -- National Public Radio commentator Baxter Black, letter July 7, 1998

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press (October 1, 1998)
• Language: English, Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0938317431
• ISBN-13: 978-0938317432
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,358,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)