Alexis Romay

This is a very nice "Go Diego Go" book. Alexis Roman has done a very good job of squeezing the essence of the television show into 24 pages. I mean by this that there is plot continuity -- no breaks conceptual/ a smooth flow -- and that it's a good read-aloud.

The featured creature in this book is the slow moving sloth. The threat is a wind storm that threatens the branch he is hanging from. The artwork is typical of the series; colorful and attractive.

Though any book that gets children to read is good in my book, I particularly like "Diego Saves the Sloth!" because it's also educational. There are the Spanish words, of course, which are trademarks of his show. But in addition there is information about sloths. In particular, the last page of the book gives quite a few factoids. Did you know sloths were good swimmers?

There are also two places where children are asked to use their analyzing tools. One, when they are asked to find which animal is in trouble, and a second time, for which vehicle Diego should use. In both cases, adults can expand the question to ask what vehicle the child would want to use. Or contrarily, what animal they would want to save.

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Color book that's a good read-aloud. It's education and entertaining.

Pam T~
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