What Can You Do With a Paleta? / ¿Qué puedes hacer con una paleta? (English and Spanish Edition)
PreSchool-Grade 2–Apaletais a traditional Mexican frozen treat on a stick sold by busy, wagon-pushing vendors. Children can paint their tongues purple and green with one, give themselves big, blue mustaches, cool off on a hot day, and more. The story takes readers on a tour of a vibrant Latino neighborhood where sweet accordion music plays, velvet roses bloom, delicious smells of buttery tortillas and juicy fruit float from windows, and children gather to buypaletason a hot day. The lyrical prose is equally beautiful in both languages. Morales uses broad, curvy brushstrokes of contrasting bright and fruity colors to capture the look of Mexican folk art. The characters' faces are round with slightly slanted eyes and rendered in golden shades of burnt sienna. Along with the author'sWhat Can You Do with a Rebozo?(Tricycle, 2007), this joyful celebration of barrio life is a must-have for children's collections.–Rebecca Hickman, Sherman Library at NSU, Fort Lauderdale, FLCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.