Author: Diana Appelbaum
Illustrated by: Holly Meade
Publisher: Orchard Books 1997
Genre: Multicultural Realistic Fiction, picture book
Age Range: 3-5
Summary: This book compares the weather, culture, and scenary of Santo Domingo and Maine. Santo Domingo is where this girl works hard to pick fruit off of trees, gathers vegetables out of their garden, raises cocoa beans, and conches for meat. As they roast, dry, and turn the beans everyday, it forms chocolate. The family trades their vegetables and goods with Americans. Maine is presented as a cold wintery place where they book in the kitchen, use horses to clean off the snowy roads, and break up the ice on the river to sale to other men and women. The ice is made of big blcoks. Once the icehouse is full they wait again for another big snow to be bale to trade and sell their ice.
Response: Even though this book is a picture book, I feel that the cultural comparisons and some of the words fit along with the level of 3rd through 5th grade. I enjoyed reading this book, but it wasn't one of my favorites. I wouldn't suggest this to anyone unless they were doing a project of one of these countries or some other form of school-related activity.
Publisher: Orchard Books 1997
Genre: Multicultural Realistic Fiction, picture book
Age Range: 3-5
Summary: This book compares the weather, culture, and scenary of Santo Domingo and Maine. Santo Domingo is where this girl works hard to pick fruit off of trees, gathers vegetables out of their garden, raises cocoa beans, and conches for meat. As they roast, dry, and turn the beans everyday, it forms chocolate. The family trades their vegetables and goods with Americans. Maine is presented as a cold wintery place where they book in the kitchen, use horses to clean off the snowy roads, and break up the ice on the river to sale to other men and women. The ice is made of big blcoks. Once the icehouse is full they wait again for another big snow to be bale to trade and sell their ice.
Response: Even though this book is a picture book, I feel that the cultural comparisons and some of the words fit along with the level of 3rd through 5th grade. I enjoyed reading this book, but it wasn't one of my favorites. I wouldn't suggest this to anyone unless they were doing a project of one of these countries or some other form of school-related activity.
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