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Witte, Anna: El loro Tico Tango (Parrot Tico Tango).(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)

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| March 22, 2006 | Schon, Isabel | COPYRIGHT 2006 Association for Childhood Education International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Witte, Anna El loro Tico Tango (Parrot Tico Tango). Il. by the author. ISBN 1-84148-971-9. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot, 2004. 24 pp. pap. $6.99. This vividly illustrated cumulative rhyme is a pleasure to listen to and to behold. It is set in a lush rain forest, reminiscent of Costa Rica, where the author states she first saw Tico Tango. In a lively, repetitive, rhyming Spanish narrative, the story describes a greedy loro (parrot) who insists on taking fruit from the other animals of the rainforest until his beak can hold no more. Thus, the hungry, repentant loro is forced to dance un tango to get algo del mango (a piece of the ...

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