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Nov 16, 2017
Anamaria
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Taka taka is exactly how a Cuban would describe the sounds a car makes. It's the little things.
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Great endpapers of old cars.
Great title page: double-page spread looking out an old dash.
Apt poetic comparison of a happy old engine clucking like a hen.
Monumental-type illustrations of strong, happy looking people of many colors against the warmly glowing backdrop of Cuba's back roads and Havana's streets of lively urban decay.
The story itself, a poem paean to old cars and the ingenuity that keeps them running, clunked along a bit for me - seemed like it was trying both to be a sensory hymn t ...more
Great title page: double-page spread looking out an old dash.
Apt poetic comparison of a happy old engine clucking like a hen.
Monumental-type illustrations of strong, happy looking people of many colors against the warmly glowing backdrop of Cuba's back roads and Havana's streets of lively urban decay.
The story itself, a poem paean to old cars and the ingenuity that keeps them running, clunked along a bit for me - seemed like it was trying both to be a sensory hymn t ...more
I love how Margarita Engle so completely capture's a young child's point of view, especially all of the different car sounds: “Some of this island’s old cars purr like kittens, but ours is so tired that she just chatters like a busy chicken-cara cara, cara cara, cluck, cluck, cluck. Today Cara Cara sounds like a tiny baby chick, pio pio, pio pio, pfffft." But most of all, I love how father and son work together to fix the car: "No luck, but we keep trying and trying, even though all the silly no
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Just read this to a PreK 4 class, that had requested a family story time. Some of the children were talking about cousins, so I chose this story of a boy who helps his father with fixing their old car so they can travel to a cousin's zero year birthday party. Having a zero year birthday raised some questions, but having the car sounds seemed to keep their attention.
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The rhythmic text makes the sounds of Cuba and old cars come alive, this is a book that is meant to be read out loud and would even be a great way to introduce the history of Cuba to older elementary school students.
Nov 09, 2017
Barbara
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Shelves:
community,
read-aloud,
travel,
families,
cultural-identity,
elderly-characters,
emotions,
friendship,
vehicles,
humor
Wonderfully detailed illustrations, created with pencil acrylic, paper, photo overlay, and digital color in Adobe Photoshop complement text that takes readers into the city streets of Havana and the rural heartland of Cuba. A young boy and his family set off for the city to celebrate the birthday of a young relative, but the vintage car in which they will be traveling needs some tender loving care before they set out. Relying onrich description and onomatopoeia, the text will make readers feel t
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Loved, loved, loved the illustrations - 5 stars for Mike Curato.
The story, not so much -2 stars.
The story, not so much -2 stars.
A book that celebrates family, community, and the inventiveness of the Cuban people.
After the Cuban revolution in 1959 no more American products could be shipped to Cuba. The cars that families owned in 1959 are the same cars that they drive today. Cubans keep the cars going even if they have to invent a part or have a different I cannot get enough of the illustrations in this book!! Fantastic!!
I learned about the history of cars on Cuba from the story and the author/illustrator notes. Both a car and a family story. The illustrations, although not done by a Cuban artist feel right to me but I'm not express.
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So we purr, cara cara, and we glide, taka taka, and we zoom, zoom, ZOOM! A family drives into the city of Havana to celebrate a cousin's first birthday. Before their journey, the boy helps his papa tune up their old car, Cara Cara, which has been in their family for many years. They drive along the sea wall, along the coast, past other colorful old cars. The sounds of the city are rich--the putt putts and honks and bumpety bumps of other cars chorus through the streets. A rich celebration of the
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Oct 27, 2017
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Dec 21, 2017
Dan
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