Author:  Fine, Edith Hope
Title: Bajo la luna de limón
Illustrator:  René King Moreno
Publisher:  Lee & Low     Publication Date:1999
Pages:  29 pages, not numbered
Paper price:  $6.95     ISBN:  1-880000-91-1
Type:  Picture story     Grade level(s): 1 - 3^rd
Translation notes:
Original title:  Under the lemon moon
Translator:  Eida de la Vega

Reviewer:  Diana Borrego, San José Public Library
Translation rating:  satisfactory
The translation of this title is adequate throughout the book. I do have a problem with the translation of limonero for lemon tree and encorvado for "hunched shoulders."
Comments:
The story is simple and appropriately accompanied by illustrations in earth-tone colors depicting a small village in Latin America. Rosalinda and her pet hen, Blanca are worried because the family’s lemon tree begins to look sick after someone hurriedly and carelessly made away with all of the fruit from the tree. Rosalinda seeks the help of "La Anciana" (the Old One) to help her cure the ailing tree. During her search for the Anciana she sees the man who stole her tree’s lemons selling them at the market place. The man, his wife, and their two children appear to be poor and without an alternative way of earning money to feed the family. This story teaches forgiveness and generosity.