La carrera del sapo y el venado Book

This is a book that is about a frog and a deer. It is a wonderful spin off of the tortois and the hare but with a different twist to it. The vibrant colors in this book are a water color wonderworld.

If you can read Spanish, then this is a fun book to read. The trickery of the frog (sapo Much) was genius. After seeing the kind of animal the deer (Keej)was you would have a sense of, "That's what you get." There is a good moral in the story. It's good for starting a discussion of how we talk to one another and how when friends work together, they can accomplish the almost impossible. Read it or have it read to you and translated. I gave this book 4 starts because even though the illustrations were wonderful I found it difficult to find sapo Much throughout the story. He didn't look exactly how a child would picture a frog.

The fable "The Tortois and the Hare" is a wonderful story to share in your classroom, but this story has that nice little spin to it. This would be a good book to have the children write about how they may have had to over come some kind of obsticle with the help of a friend or another person. Implementing team work for a class project would be good if you were able to read this book to your class before hand. Granted the story is in Spanish so I mainly would use it in a ELL class or a class whose population is more than 85% Hispanic.

I do not have a Grade,Lexile,or Guided Reading level as this book is in Spanish.