Reviews for Pepita Finds Out/lo que Pepita Descubre

The average rating for Pepita Finds Out/lo que Pepita Descubre based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-19 00:00:00 Marte Eyre The overall theme for this book is learning to slowly start and embrace your culture. You need to accept what type of family you have and what type of culture you live, but for some students it may be difficult. This book would be great to read to an ELL, or any student, who feels that they are different. Pepita goes on a search to discover her family and finds out that they are more interesting and more important than she thought. She realizes that everyone needs to be proud of where they come from because ultimately, the love of a family is what is crucial. I wanted to use this book because it relates to my topic of Hispanic culture. I wanted to get two perspectives on family and the way that family is so important to Hispanic culture. Many of the students that I work with that are Hispanic talk about their family more than anything else. It is engraved into these kids of Hispanic descent that family is all you will ever have that will stay in your life permanently. This book is not to difficult for my students, but it will also keep them engaged and also keep them questioning about their own family and how they feel they are when they see their family. While the story keeps rolling, so do the illustrations keeping us updated with a new picture to follow along in case we are not understanding.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-10-17 00:00:00 Denver Nestor In this book, Pepita is assigned to interview people for a school project. She begins to ask many different animals pretending she can talk to them, and making stories up that she thinks would be very interesting. Then she starts to interview her family members, but thinks that their responses are boring and her class won't enjoy her presentation. Towards the end she realizes that even if their stories aren't the most interesting, its who they are and what they do, and that's why she loves them. As a teacher I can use this book to show students to appreciate what their parents do as their jobs, and how hard they work to take care of them. The author, Ofelia Dumas Lachtman, who was born to Mexican immigrant parents, and the illustrator, Alex Pardo Delange, is a Venezuelan artist, and can relate to Pepita's culture. This book relates to my topic in that, I believe, the majority of Latinos are extremely hard workers, and it shows children to appreciate their parents more.