Circulo de Las Calabazas: Historia de un Huerto

by George Levenson, Shmuel Thaler (Photographer), Alberto Jimenez Rioja (Translator)

Overview

Tricycle Press is proud to present a new Spanish edition of the critically acclaimed PUMPKIN CIRCLE. Pumpkin seedlings grow, sprout, bud, and bloom, offering up their golden fruit, then break down into rich soil from which seeds sprout again-a circle without end. The skillfully translated Spanish language edition is sure to create a whole new crop of pumpkin lovers. Pumpkin Circle: The Video, narrated by Danny Glover, is available through www.pumpkincircle.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582460833
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/28/2002
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.19(d)
Language:	Spanish
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Bread lover GEORGE LEVENSON's films, which include the widely praised Sadako and The Thousand Paper Cranes, are available in most schools and libraries in North America. This story was inspired by the wheatgrass growing in his backyard in Santa Cruz, California.

SHMUEL THALER lives in Santa Cruz, California.

From the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

Starred review —Criticas magazine, the equivalent of School Library Journal for the Spanish language market "A first-rate introduction to the growth cycle." —Boston Globe"A visually striking book . . ." —Booklist

From the Publisher

PreS-Gr 2-Levenson, known for his work as a producer of such videos as Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Sadako y las mil grullas de papel, Scott Foresman, 1996), introduces children to the cycles of life in this translation of the 1999 English-language original. In poetic text, he presents facts about pumpkins and incorporates the descriptions into the remarkable illustrations. The words of the poem slide down a huge stack of pumpkins or form a straight column imitating pumpkin seeds in a plant. The photos are not only well integrated with the text but have a beauty of their own, showing the growth of a pumpkin plant from various perspectives, including some close-up views of pumpkin plants and flowers. Basic information on growing pumpkins is also included. The Spanish translation avoids the few awkward rhymes of the original text, making the book more poetic. The faithfully rendered video features Mexican American narrator Luis Valdez and George Winston's sparkling piano music that keeps pace with the text and lifts the spirit. Singly or together, these two paeans to pumpkins work beautifully in a classroom setting or for autumn-themed library story times.-Tim Wadham, Maricopa Cty. Lib. District, Phoenix, AZ Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Criticas