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Monday, January 30, 2012

The Three Little Javelinas

Book Title: The Three Little Javelinas
Author(s): Susan Lowell
Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Jim Harris
Publisher: Northland Publishing Co.
Copyright Date: 1992
Genre: Folklore
Brief Annotation: This is a southwestern story of The Three Little Pigs. Instead of the wolf there is a coyote. The javelina’s make their houses out of materials familiar to the desert. The last pig makes his house an adobe and the wolf can’t blow it down.
Your Rating (1-5) and Why: I rate this a four. There is some great vocabulary in here and it opens the door to study houses of the southwest.
Readers who will like this book: Kids who have visited the southwest or Mexico. Kids who like folktales and those who have heard Spanish, or know Spanish.

Question to ask about this book before you read aloud: What things are very different when you compare the southwest to Minnesota?
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