Cerca Close

Juan Felipe Herrera

Book - 2019

"Mi cuarto es̀t cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen. Mi cuarto es̀t cerca de la cocina. My bedroom is close to the kitchen."--Provided by publisher.

Saved in:

Children's Room Show me where

jBOARD BOOK/Herrera
3 / 3 copies available
Location Call Number   Status
Children's Room jBOARD BOOK/Herrera Checked In
Children's Room jBOARD BOOK/Herrera Checked In
Children's Room jBOARD BOOK/Herrera Checked In
Subjects
Genres
Board books
Published
Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press [2019]
Language
Spanish
English
Main Author
Juan Felipe Herrera (author)
Other Authors
Blanca Gómez (illustrator)
Item Description
Cover title.
On board pages.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
ISBN
9780763690625
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A bilingual Spanish/English spatial-awareness concept book.HerreraU.S. poet laureate from 2015 to 2017introduces the concept of proximity in a series of simple statements that start with a child getting ready to go out and end with the child approaching a friend's house. The statements are presented first in Spanish followed by italicized English, effectively normalizing the Spanish. "Mi cuarto est cerca de la cocina. / My bedroom is close to the kitchen." Gmez's color-saturated illustrations portray a child in a jaunty striped T-shirt and two cute pigtails proceeding from bedroom to kitchen to door, daisies, apple tree, horses, and, finally, the friend's house. By breaking up the journey into incremental "cerca / close" steps the author brings the close friendship into focus. Companion volume Lejos / Far starts with the same two characters under a lemon tree, with the friendnow the main characterlooking back to the house in the distance. This time the emphasis is on places that are far: from lemon tree to house, city, ocean, and mountains. As the child walks in the mountains holding a caregiver's hand, clouds can be seen far above, and further than that is the sun: "El sol brilla sobre m. / The sun shines over me." Both the children and the adult have brown skin and black hair.Quiet, simple, and sweet. (Board book. 2-4) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.