Author:    Bishop, Gavin
Title:   Conejito y el mar
Illustrator:   Bishop, Gavin
Publisher:    Ediciones Norte-Sur     Publication date:  c1997;  Translation c2000
Pages:   47 pages.
Paper price:  $6.95     ISBN:  0-7358-1314-0
Type:  Picture story        Grade level(s):   PreK - 1st
Translation notes:
Original title:  Little rabbit and the sea
Translator:    Acevedo, Pilar

Reviewer:  Mark Hall, San Francisco Public Library
Translation rating:  satisfactory
The Spanish is fine  -- standard Latin American Spanish without regionalisms.
Comments:
A sweet story about the sea, imagination, and the different ways we see things.  Little Rabbit dreams of being a sailor, though he lives far from the ocean.  To help him try to imagine, he asks several adults what the sea is like... but everyone gives a different answer:  the sea is calm, blue, wide, salty, and so on.  When a friendly seagull gives him a seashell to hear "the sea" for himself, Little Rabbit imagines himself into vivid scenes of the sea in its different moods, based on the ways he has heard it described.  The text is set into beautiful  full page illustrations in pen and ink and watercolor.

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