Author:  Liebman, Dan
Title:   Quiero ser doctor
Illustrator:   -
Publisher:    Firefly Books     Publication date:  c2000
Pages:   24 pages.
Paper price:  $5.99     ISBN:  0-55209-473-1
Type:  Non-fiction        Grade level(s):   PreK - 1st
Translation notes:
Original title:  (Published simultaneously in English as "I want to be a doctor")
Translator:    Not accredited

Reviewer:  Mark Hall, San Francisco Public Library
Translation rating:  satisfactory
"Medico" would have been a more standard term than "doctor", but otherwise the translation uses pretty standard Spanish.
Comments:
Full page color photos accompany this collection of quick glimpses into what doctors do.  The quality of the photographs is generally quite good, and a fairly multicultural cross-section of people is portrayed.   I personally was bothered, however, by the lack of any connecting narrative thread... instead this title offers a series of random snapshots.  Just for comparison’s sake, Rebecca Hankin’s currently out of print "Puedo ser medico" (Children’s Press) offers a much better narrative.  Still, a reader who doesn't mind expanding on the narrative or is using the title with other books might find this a useful supplemental title.

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