¿Quién se esconde? (Who’s Hiding?)

By staff -- Críticas, 7/15/2007

PreS-Gr 2–Sharp-eyed youngsters will have fun with this search-and-find picture book. Eighteen simply drawn, brightly colored animals are laid out in the same order on each spread. After all the creatures are introduced, the following spread asks, “¿Quién se esconde?” (Who’s hiding?). The illustration shows all of them except for the yellow reindeer who is almost invisible now that the background color is the same as his. This question alternates with others throughout the book as the background color keeps changing. The next question is “¿Quién llora?” (Who’s crying?) It’s the rabbit, who is frowning and shedding a tear. “¿Quién está enojado?” (Who’s angry?) is not that clear, but is identified in the answer key at the end of the book as the scowling blue bear. This is a clever puzzle book for caregivers and young children to share and to learn animals, colors, concepts. A solid choice for Spanish-language picture-book collections.–Críticas