Canticos: Ratoncitos / Canticos: Little Mice

by Alan J Cooper, Alan J Cooper (Translator)

Overview

These playful little mice are on a mission to find and eat as much cheese as they possibly can before they get caught by the cat for lunch! Based on the popular nursery rhyme in Spanish, this English adaption truly matches the melody of the original song.

Kids will enjoy this easy-to-read book with colorful characters and fun lift-the-flap surprises that help them learn the names of shapes in English and Spanish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996995924
Publisher:	Encantos Media
Publication date:	04/11/2017
Series:	Canticos Series
Edition description:	Bilingual: Spanish-English
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	1 - 4 Years

About the Author

Susie Jaramillo: Susie Jaramillo is a mom, an artist and a creative director raising two bilingual children. She worked for many years in advertising having co-founded the vox collective, a NY-based boutique multicultural agency where she served as Chief Creative Officer until 2012. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she majored in painting and illustration.

Susie Grew up between Venezuela and the United States, always going back and forth fluently between cultures. As a child, she was exposed to songs and traditions from both the United States and Latin America. To bring to life all the things she loved about her Latino culture she created Canticos — and now kids of all ages can enjoy these nursery rhymes and songs! She lives in Brooklyn.

Editorial Reviews

06/19/2017
Jaramillo plays with the Spanish “cinco ratoncitos” nursery rhyme in this bilingual addition to her Canticos series of accordion-style board books. The story of five mice snacking on cheese and avoiding a cat unfolds in Spanish on one side and English on the other; once again, Jaramillo lets each version stand on its own, opting for clean rhymes over precisely matched translations; the Spanish side features “cinco ratoncitos de colita gris” (colored gray) while the English version stars “five little mice with tails wide awake.” Flaps inset in the pages introduce several shapes (circles, squares, hexagons, etc.), and the antics of Jaramillo’s expressive mice will keep children amused in whichever language they are reading. Up to age 4. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"As with Jaramillo's very successful previous books, the book is constructed concertina fashion, thus giving both languages equal value. Both the Spanish and English versions have identical illustrations; the English text varies slightly from the Spanish to account for rhyme and measure. Here's looking forward to the addition of more books to this delightful series."

From the Publisher

2017-05-10
In this bilingual version of the popular Spanish song "Cinco Ratoncitos," five mice hurry up to eat their cheese."Five little mice with tails wide awake… // Wiggle their noses / and give their ears a shake. // Eyes wide open / they quickly munch… // Before they get caught by the cat for lunch! // They finish their cheese, / and back home they creep…. // They close the door / and go right to sleep. / Shhhhh…." A little distractingly, Jaramillo has incorporated geometry in the form of differently shaped flaps. This device works at times, as with the playful mice that can be found under the square lids of boxes or hiding under a circular flap in the cheese. Little ones will squeal with delight when they lift the cat's face to reveal his dream of mice baked into a cupcake! But the creatures found under an array of flaps—triangle, octagon, square, and hexagon—add nothing to the rhyme. As with Jaramillo's very successful previous books, the book is constructed concertina fashion, thus giving both languages equal value. Both the Spanish and English versions have identical illustrations; the English text varies slightly from the Spanish to account for rhyme and measure. Here's looking forward to the addition of more books to this delightful series. (Board book. 1-5)

Kirkus Reviews