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Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico

Verna Aardema,

Petra Mathers (Illustrator)

Start date: February 1, 2012

Finish date: February 29, 2012

Discussion leader: Ronyell

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Aug 06, 2010 Ronyell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: goodreads-group-reads, summer-100-book-challenge-2010, reading-rainbow-book, fairy-tales-folktales, animal-books, read-in-2010, mexican-books

When I first heard this story on an episode of “Reading Rainbow,” I was immediately impressed with this story! “Borreguita and the Coyote” is a Mexican folktale retold by master storyteller Verna Aardema along with illustrations by Petra Mathers and it is about how a young lamb named Borreguita manages to outwit a hungry coyote in many attempts. “Borreguita and the Coyote” is a brilliant folktale about cunning that children will enjoy for many years!

Verna Aardema has done an excellent job at ret When I first heard this story on an episode of “Reading Rainbow,” I was immediately impressed with this story! “Borreguita and the Coyote” is a Mexican folktale retold by master storyteller Verna Aardema along with illustrations by Petra Mathers and it is about how a young lamb named Borreguita manages to outwit a hungry coyote in many attempts. “Borreguita and the Coyote” is a brilliant folktale about cunning that children will enjoy for many years!

Verna Aardema has done an excellent job at retelling this folktale as the story is both hilarious and clever at the same time. Verna Aardema does a great job at making Borreguita a truly clever and cute little lamb as Borreguita shows children that even the smallest person can prove to be extremely resourceful and clever towards bullies and also, the coyote is shown to be slightly menacing as he repeatedly threatens to eat Borreguita, but is always foiled by Borreguita’s quick thinking, which helps develop so much humor for this story. Verna Aardema has also done a great job at providing helpful definitions at the beginning of the book which will greatly help many small children understand the Spanish language being used in this book and also help many children understand the culture of Mexico. Petra Mathers’ illustrations are both beautiful and hilarious at the same time as the background are colorful, especially of the images of Borreguita out on a clover field as there are red dots that indicate flowers drawn all over the green and grassy meadow. Petra Mathers also makes the coyote look both menacing and goofy at the same time as the coyote has yellow and slanted eyes and is colored in a dark grey color which makes him look a little intimidating, however whenever the coyote is tricked by Borreguita, he shows a shocked expression on his face which will make children laugh so hard.

“Borreguita and the Coyote” is a truly hilarious story for children who love books about animals and Mexican folktales and will be an instant hit for children everywhere! I would recommend this book to children ages five and up since smaller children might not understand the Spanish language in this book.
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Feb 13, 2012 Eden Silverfox rated it liked it

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Borreguita is a little lamb and a coyote one day sees her in the field. He goes to her and tells her that he is going to eat her. But Borreguita outwits the coyote many times before he learns his lesson.

I really enjoy folktales and this was a nice one. I like tales of Coyote, or coyotes thinking they are smart and then being tricked. This was an enjoyable book.

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