Even More/Todavia Más
Liz McGrath
(Reviewer - Karrie G.)
2004 Raven Tree Press
ISBN: 0972019286

Of the love between a mother & her child.

Once there was a mother who looked down at her baby and said: “I love you more than all my dreams of who you'd be.”
Habla una vez una mamá que miró a su bebé y le dijo: -- “Te quiero más que a todo lo que imaginé que serías.”

& so each page shows & tells of the ages of childhood & a mother's love until that wonderful day when the child is a woman looking down at her baby.

Great illustrations by Barbara Quick -- they are montages & refrigerator door art as well as endearing portraits of Madonna & Child.

My Spanish cannot hold up to writing a review of a bilingual book in that language, suffice to say that the moment I began reading the second paragraph, the part of the story in Spanish, I could easily pick out the meaning of the words. Now I'm an old senora in her dotage, however, I shared this book with a couple of young ones when they visited, & they were thrilled! Suddenly they saw a way to speak with some of their classmates whose mothers' tongue is Spanish.

Spanish is probably America's second most spoken language, & if you want to give your young readers (& yourself!) an introduction to this lovely language then Raven Tree Press books are a great boon for you. Of course, it works in reverse too -- if you want your children to make the connections between Spanish & English!

A word about Raven Tree Press out of Green Bay, Wisconsin -- it is an independent publisher dedicated to offering amusing, informative & interestingly written stories for the Accelerated Reader in a Bilingual Context. Each of their titles is magically illustrated to accompany the English & Spanish texts with a Glossary in the back. Raven Tree Press also has fine Translators who capture modern idioms.
(01/18/04)

Rebecca