"These poems speak about the nature of the Chilean countryside, of its animals, its aromas, and its stars. These are verses that invite us to direct our gaze from the Earth to the sky, from the smallest things to the most magnificent."--Amazon.
Collects over 160 illustrated poems, riddles, rhymes, tongue twisters, and more from Spain and Latin America, featuring the work of Juan Ramon Jimenez, Jose Marti, Gabriela Mistral, and Federico Garcia Lorca, along with folkloric rhymes and games.
animal poems = Aleteo y zumbido: poemas de animales
Paschkis, Julie
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 words and art sing in both languages, bringing out the beauty and playfulness of the animal world.
Presents Jos? Mart?'s 1889 poem in which a young girl named Pilar, playing on the beach in her finery, comes upon a poor mother and her sickly daughter and gives the child her treasured shoes.