Voces en el Parque - Hardcover

Browne Anthony; Browne, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9681660196 ISBN 13: 9789681660192

Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999

Synopsis

Varias personas se encuentran en el parque. Carlos va con su mamá y con Victoria, su perro labrador. Smudge va con su papá y su perro. Todos son diferentes y ven las cosas de distinta forma. ¿Te imaginas qué pasaría si pudieras saber cómo cada personaje ve el mundo y a los demás?

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Reviews

Grade 2-What makes Voices in the Park (Transworld Publishers, 1998) so very interesting is its use of insightful humor both in the text and in the illustrations. The book is comprised of one story told in four voices from four very different perspectives. A simple walk in the park is skillfully rendered from the point of view of each walker (a mother and her son, a father and his daughter). Each individual brings to the story his or her own worldview and preoccupation. The mother sees the walk through eyes filled with prejudice and fear. The boy is filled with shy timidity. The father is a despondent figure, while his daughter is all eager playfulness. The strangely static quality of the illustrations is offset by slyly inserted comic elements (e.g., a whale's tail in the tree line, a school of clouds shaped like fedoras, a tree in flames, tiny Mary Poppins figures floating in a dark sky). The Spanish translation has one or two rough spots where simpler words could have been chosen, but otherwise it is solidly rendered. Recommended for all collections. M.O.B.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN 10: 9681660196
• ISBN 13: 9789681660192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 28