Flutter & Hum / Aleteo y Zumbido
Animal Poems / Poemas de Animales (Bilingual)
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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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In 12 tantalizing poems, written in English and Spanish, Paschkis shows herself to be a sensitive observer of the animal kingdom, as well as of language itself, finding humor, eccentricities, and unexpected connections in both. The two versions of each poem aren't exact mirrors (in English, a grazing cow enjoys a "Slow munch./ All day lunch," while in Spanish it's "Una comida/ sin fin"), and finding the intersections and divergences in the verse is a thrill. A sense of linguistic interconnectivity is also evident in Paschkis's warm gouache paintings, which (like her work in Pablo Neruda) features words painted on leaves, grasses, and swirling waters, reading like exercises in rhyme, alliteration, and word association (in a rainy scene, crows are painted with word pairs like crass/brash and brujo/brusco). Paschkis's imagery can be haunting, contemplative, or playful (a "dancing whale" becomes a "ballena bailarina"), and the results are uniformly excellent. Ages 4 8.