Hairs/Pelitos (English and Spanish Edition)

(easy, picture, multicultural). This book has dual language text, english and spanish. It follows a little girl's observation of all the differences in her family member's hair. She is especially attached to her mother's that is soft, pretty and like little rosettes. It reminds her of many

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comfortable childhood smells, like fresh bread or being invited into her side of the bed at night scented with her warm skin. This is a sweet little story that would be good for talking about multicultural (physical) differences, and provide a source of familiar comfort to little ones. We all know how they love to snuggle with their mamas! A good conversation to spark with this book is to have students look at their classmates and talk about their different kinds of hair and/or facial features.

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I liked this book because it is written in english and spanish. This way you can incorporate your spanish speaking students with helping you pronounce words. It also goes through and discusses how everyone in this family is different but they are all still part of the same family. I thought that

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was inteesting too because everyone is different. Great read aloud, I would use for first or second graders.

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This book is a great tool for the classroom. It is especially helpful for native spanish speaking students. When I read this with my class, the students were very excited to speak spanish or learn a new language. It also introduced the idea of diversity and started a very in-depth discussion within

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my group. I did not like the story line very much. It is more poetic than a story. I would, however, use this again as an interactive read aloud in a classroom.

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"Hairs/Pelitos" is a vignette taken from Sandra Cisneros' novel "The House on Mango Street," and it tells a wonderful story about a girl's family and the different types of hair they all have. Told with brilliant colors and pictures, the story details each member of a little girl's family as she

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speaks of the type of hair that they have - long, short, textured, soft, and spiky. It engages young students by talking using the five senses to create an experience, and teaches diversity. Written in both Spanish and English, the undertones of this book are ones of acceptance, love, and tolerance for all different types of people with varied personalities and outward appearances.

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Hairs/Pelitos is a story that is told in both Spanish and English. A little girl talks about the different types of hair that everyone in her family has. Then when she gets to describing her mothers hair she goes into more detail. The way that she starts describing her mother's hair she goes into

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much more detail, and you can feel all the affection and the comfort that is provided to the little girl by her mother. When she is describing everyone else's hair, she only talks about the type.

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I did not really like this book. I thought it was boring and too simple of a topic with not enough detail. The book was about the different types of hair in one Hispanic family. The illustrations are very abstract. "Everyone in our family has different hair. My Papa's hair is slippery--sides out of

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your head." In the book the dad has a purple face and the brother has a green face. "Nenny's hair is slippery--slides out of your hand." The language in this book was descriptive but I think could have been more. The writing was not very engaging. The characters were believable but not well developed. The point of view was told from the little girl in the family. The big idea of the book is differences within one family.

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This is a short story taken from "The House on Mango Street", written in both Spanish and English. It talks from the point of view of the daughter, who tells about her family's hair.

This is a picture book that utilizes both Spanish and English. The story is told from a girl’s perspective where each member of her family has a different type of hair and she uses literary devices like simile and metaphors to describe each type of hair to the reader. The illustrations are simple

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and use solid blocks of color and the colors range from bright reds to deep dark purples. This story can be used to discuss the literal subject of hair or it can go beyond that and speak to the differences between races and ethnicities or just people in general and how everyone is unique in their own way. It can also be utilized to teach about metaphors and similes and use the book for examples. Students could then write a story about their own hair and use a simile or metaphor to describe it. It also is beneficial if there are other language learners in a classroom because there is both Spanish and English. It can also introduce English speakers to a new language in an easy way.

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