The first day of school can be scary, especially when no one else speaks your language. Carmen, who speaks only Spanish, knows she must be brave. Her teacher's Spanish is muy terrible; but with a little encouragement from la Senora, Carmen teaches the class Spanish words and numbers, and she in turn learns English from her new friends.
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Judy Cox is an elementary school teacher who has written many picture books and chapter books for children. Publishers Weekly praised “Cox’s rhythmic story” and the narrative’s “cheerful, buoyant tempo” for "My Family Plays Music", winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award. She lives in Ontario, Oregon.
K-Gr 2–Older sister Carmen tells Lupita, who is about to enter kindergarten, about her first day of school, when she could speak only Spanish. She recalls other children teasing her about saying the wrong words or mocking her accent. Yet with a kind teacher's help, Carmen mastered English well enough to teach her new language to Lupita and then to begin to use it at school, where classmates learn Spanish from her. Dominguez's average-quality paintings convey a childlike energy and effectively express Carmen's moods. This charming celebration of bilingualism captures both the fears and delights of learning a new tongue.Mary Landrum, Lexington Public Library, KY
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