Vegetable Dreams/Huerto sonado
“Vegetable Dreams/Huerto sonado” is written in both English and Spanish. In “Vegetable Dreams,” Erin wants to raise a garden. Her mother and father tell her that it is too much work. Her neighbor decides, with the parents’ permission, to help her raise a garden. She picks out the seeds, plants them, and harvests the vegetables. Parish kept pointing to the tomato, but she thinks it is an apple. She keeps arguing with me about that. The pictures are light and airy. Parish was drawn to the one with the little girl crying while sitting on a swing. She likes Erin ’s long dress. We read this a week before planting our garden. This really got her excited about helping us plant the seeds. The words are easy-to-read for beginning readers. “Vegetable Dreams/Huerto sonado” is a wonderful book for both English and Spanish-speaking children. I recommend it.
Reviewed by for Reader Views (5/06): The author’s main point of the book is about hard work and determination with an up lifting tale of dreams fulfilled. I think the Dawn Jeffers was very successful with this story. The story is well written and easy to read to children and easy for them to understand. I read the story to my nieces that are 4, 3 and 3 and they really enjoyed it. They have a very close relationship with my father and he has a garden that they help him with so when I read about the tomatoes in the garden they associated very well and understood. My nieces and I enjoyed the story and it was easy to read, not too long and not too short. Great pictures for me, but I think that Sara, the four year old, would have liked for the pictures to be more like photographs. She thought a child had colored the pictures. I think the book would be great for any office where families have to wait or in libraries, because both Hispanics and English speaking family can use it. |
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