The Tree is Older Than you are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories From Mexico With Paintings by

Nye, Naomi Shihab

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Annotation: Poems, stories, and ripe images of Mexico, of our neighbors, are a gift to our lives and hearts.

Genre: [Foreign languages] [Literature and language]

Reviews: 6

Catalog Number: #4718247

Format: Paperback

Common Core/STEAM: Common Core

Publisher: Aladdin

Edition Date: 1998 Release Date: 04/01/98

Pages: 111 pages

ISBN: 0-689-82087-9

ISBN 13: 978-0-689-82087-8

Dewey: 860

LCCN: 95001565

Dimensions: 28 cm.

Subject Heading:
Mexican literature.
Mexican literature. Translations into English.
Mexican poetry. 20th century.
Mexican poetry. 20th century. Translations into English.
Mexican literature.
Mexican literature. Translations into English.
Mexican poetry. 20th century.
Mexican poetry. 20th century. Translations into English.
Spanish language materials. Bilingual.
Literatura Mexicana. slem.
Literatura Mexicana. Traducir al ingles. slem.
Poesia Mexicana. 20th century. slem.
Poesia Mexica. 20th century. Traducir al ingles. slem.
Materiales lectura en idioma espanol. Bilingue. slem.

Language: Spanish

Bilingual: Yes

Reviews:

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

English translations appear alongside the Spanish poems and tales that explore everything from a table set for supper to a peach tree to a legend of rabbit's long ears. The selections include writings by Rosario Castellanos, Jose Juan Tablada, Octavio Paz and many others. Ages 8-up. (Apr.)

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Reading Level: 4.0

Interest Level: 7-12

Reading Counts!: reading level:6.1 / points:6.0 / quiz:Q11768

Lexile: NP

A beautiful collection of bilingual poems and stories from Mexico, paired with paintings by Mexican artists.

“Remember, the tree is older than you are and you might find stories in its branches.”

So begins this wondrous collection of poems and stories from Mexico that invites us to imagine a car as sweet as strawberry ice cream, skin that kisses air and breeze-waving hair, a rabbit with little ears, a frog that runs instead of hops, and taxis filled with ghosts. Richly colored paintings interspersed throughout express not just the meaning of the words, but the magic within them.

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