(4) K-3 Illustrated by Viví­ Escrivá. When Lucy visits America for the first time, she feels awkward because she doesn't know English. She can't even communicate with her cousin's dog: "'Por favor, Sparky,' I say politely. But he jumps higher..." The story, told in both English and Spanish, is wordy and the illustrations look wooden, but the sprinkling of Spanish phrases throughout the English text is smoothly done.

Reviewer: Tim Wadham

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Martha Aviles. Recent immigrant Amelia decides to wear her fiesta dress from Cuba for show-and-tell. At school she discovers that all the other show-and-tell items are in a basket, but all ends well when she demonstrates how her dress "talks" when she dances. The bilingual text and colorful illustrations nicely incorporate images from Amelia's island life.

Reviewer: Tim Wadham