Isabel and the Hungry Coyote
Isabel y el coyote hambriento
Keith Polette
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2004 Raven Tree Press
ISBN: 0972497307

A little girl on her way to Grandma's house; a basket of goodies & a lurking scoundrel.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? This time, our little girl is in the Chihuahua Desert in the American Southwest & she's carrying tamales & chili sauce, & the hungry villain is the Trickster Coyote.

This time the story is in English with Spanish words dotted about like the flores in Isabel's desert. We learn about her caperuza roja, & how to say such ordinary things as “Hello”. Zesty illustrations by Esther Szegedy -- energetic & colorful, & the story will entrance you. Great fun!

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 with a Vocabulary/Glossary in the back.

More from Raven Tree Press:
On The Banks of The Amazon or En las orillas del Amazonas
Yelly Kelly or Kelly el Griton
Even More or Todavia Mas
Mason Moves Away or Mason Se Muda
(09/26/04)

Rebecca