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La arana muy ocupada (Spanish Edition)

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This is a beautiful book but the translated version has been published with mistakes in almost every single page.

My son loves this book and we've being reading it every night for several weeks now. I really like the fact he can touch the spider's web(telaraña)as it grows, and of course the beautiful colors and illustrations.
I didn't give it five stars because of the translation. Being such a well known name in children's literature (and the text is really NOT complicated at all!!!) I would've expected more care. There aren't mistakes in every page. The two mistakes are in the last pages: Gallina(Hen) instead of Gallo (Rooster) and When the Owl asks: Quien -Lo- ha hecho esta telaraña tan bonita..."Lo" does not mean anything in that context. It might be a localism for some, but it's not correct spanish...

During our unit on animals I read this Spanish translation of Eric Carle's "The Very Busy Spider" to my students who range from 3 to 6 years old. The Spanish version does have grammatical and spelling errors, but I correct the inaccuracies while I am reading to my students. They enjoy looking at the pictures, making the sounds of the animals, watching the web get bigger and bigger, and feeling the web on each page. I was surprised that the translation had quite a few errors (gallina instead of gallo, for example), but it's still easy to enjoy this wonderful book.