Flutter & Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido: Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales (Bilingual) - Hardcover

Paschkis, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1627791035 ISBN 13: 9781627791038

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2015

Synopsis

Beautiful poems in English and Spanish celebrate a wide variety of animals in this bilingual kids book Flutter & Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido

All sorts of animals flutter and hum, dance and stretch, and slither and leap their way through this joyful collection of poems in English and Spanish. Julie Paschkis's poems and art sing in both languages, bringing out the beauty and playfulness of the animal world.

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About the Author

Julie Paschkis is a painter and award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi, and Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella. A love of pattern and of folk art shows in all her work. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

K-Gr 4—An excellent Spanish-English collection of poetry on animals. In an author's note, Paschkis explains that although she is neither a poet nor a native Spanish speaker, she was inspired by the work of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and that she began writing these poems in Spanish and then translated them into English. The Spanish and English poems are on opposite facing pages, with the artwork seamlessly sewing both versions together. Rendered in gouache, the folk-art inspired illustrations are at times dazzling with their use of color and subdued at others, as in the light, sage greens and grays of "Heron." Though Paschkis employs beautiful use of language in the English versions, such as her poem about a turtle who keeps jewels in her box ("When she walks/she listens to the rattle of the gemstones") and another about a dog whose wagging tail "fans wild happiness" into the world, the Spanish translations are marred by some awkward phrasing. VERDICT A book that takes wing and flies, flutters, and sometimes falters.—Teresa Pfeifer, The Springfield Renaissance School, Springfield, MA

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627791035
• ISBN 13: 9781627791038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Paschkis Julie
• Number of pages: 32