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So cute!
)“Martina the Beautiful Cockroach” is a Pura Belpre Honor Book by Carmen Agra Deedy along with gorgeous illustrations by Michael Austin and it is about how a young and beautiful cockroach named Martina tries to find a good husband by following her Cuban grandmother’s advice in spilling coffee on her suitor’s shoes. A wonderful collection of activities that correlate with the book, "Martina the Beautiful Cockroach." Martina listens carefully.
It is a very sweet story.Martina the Beautiful Cockroach is a Cuban Folklore. Carmen Agra Deedy's (author) and Michael Austin's (illustrator) Wow!! Born in Havana, Cuba, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1963 after the Cuban Revolution.
While exposing students to the cuban culture you can also have the students share about their own cultures and customs.
I must say, I really enjoyed it!
Martina is trying to find a life partner and she looks to her Grandmother for wisdom in to choose one of her many suitors.
This book had me laughing from the beginning sentence to the end punctuation. Martina Josephina Catalina Cucaracha, the main characters is looking for a husband and she has many to choose from due to her beauty! This book about a Cockroach who is ready to choose a husband, and goes searching for potential suitors while using some advice given to her by her grandmother, would be good for a 3rd grader to read. Students can read aloud their letters. Narrator 1: Beneath a street lamp in Havana, Cuba, lives Martina.
Her family gives her many things, but her grandmother gives her the most important thing, advice. If you are tired of reading the same old clichés in children’s stories, Reading folktales is a great way to introduce other cultures to young people.
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach written by Carmen Agra Deedy (and illustrated by Michael Austin) provides a complex, multicultural, quality picture book ideal for reading aloud.
I must say, I really enjoyed it!
She tells her granddaughter, Martina of a coffee spill test that will helpIn this hilarious picture book, Carmen Agra Deedy tells a cuban folktale about a cockroach.
I was wowed by this book at how well the author was able to personify a cockroach and the other animals. Great idea! I love Michael Austin's illustrations, especially the picture when she's meeting Perez the mouse and her antennae are curled in the shape of a heart.
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