The Stranger and the Red Rooster/ El forastero y el gallo rojo (Spanish Edition)
Grade 2-4–A stranger dressed in shabby clothes and with a horribly scarred face comes to Carlsbad, CA, causing all the mothers in the barrio to hide their children. For a week, the townspeople sneak peeks at him from behind their closed doors and drawn shades, wondering who he is and why he has come. On Sunday morning, he walks by the church with a fine big rooster in his arms. The glorious bird, sporting a jaunty yellow ribbon around his neck like a leash, drags his owner up and down the street as it races after bugs. The comical sight of the now-familiar man being yanked about by his pet breaks the ice and brings the locals close enough for a chat. Before long, various families have invited him home for supper and accepted him into the community. This well-written story is competently adapted into Spanish (both languages appear on the same page) and illustrated with attractive, brightly colored, naive-style paintings. A quiet, yet tenderhearted story with touches of humor.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.