![]() ![]() She and her mother buy a parrot they name Mango. A red feather Abuela has brought with her to remind her of a wild parrot that roosted in her mango trees back home gives Mia an idea. Mia sets out to teach her Abuela English. And Abuela’s English is too poquito to tell Mia all the stories a granddaughter wants to hear. The measured, evocative text describes how Mia’s español is not good enough to tell Abuela the things a grandmother should know. ![]() But how will they communicate if Mia speaks little Spanish and Abuela, little English? Could it be that a parrot named Mango is the solution? While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of Kindergarten (2003), it basically gets the job done.Ībuela is coming to stay with Mia and her parents. The children in the ink, paint, and collage digital spreads show a variety of emotions, but most are happy to be at school, and the surroundings will be familiar to those who have made an orientation visit to their own schools. While the days are given ordinal numbers, the song skips the cardinal numbers in the verses, and the rhythm is sometimes off: “On the second day of kindergarten / I thought it was so cool / making lots of friends / and riding the bus to my school!” The narrator is a white brunette who wears either a tunic or a dress each day, making her pretty easy to differentiate from her classmates, a nice mix in terms of race two students even sport glasses. The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, and going on a field trip. Rabe follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol. Neither the picture-book medium nor the Numberlys app is as well-served as each deserves. Much of the book requires turning pages vertically as if opening a calendar, matching the tall cityscape but making shared reading awkward. But the visual richness isn’t matched by the insubstantial plot, and suggesting that numbers aren’t beautiful or that the sole source of color and fun is our alphabet seems trite and misguided. The opportunity to look more closely at the Numberlys’ world is definitely an attraction. Young readers-and significant adults-frequently look for books to extend screen-based story experiences. Numbers disappear altogether the world transforms to full color. Upon completion of the Z, the letters, bright with color, form the words of new, appealing ideas (“jellybeans,” “yellow,” “pizza”), even names. A vast, somber art deco metropolis rendered in straight lines and monochromatic grays and browns houses a world of numbers and gears: “verything added up.” Five little beings, sporting round eyes and round heads (some with antennae), want “MORE.” They design and manufacture a familiar, Western alphabet from the forms of numbers. Joyce and Ellis’ Moonbot Studios fable about an evolution in thinking loses something in the translation from tablet to print, despite its 50-plus–page length. It’s a deep year in collegiate softball, but the Sooners look unstoppable heading into postseason play, starting with the Big 12 championships, which begin on Thursday.A successful app makes a transition to print. The presumed favorite to win the national title won’t have their challengers. The Sooners are on a mission to keep it going into the postseason. This has already been a historic year for Oklahoma. 12 after being swept by Oklahoma.īaylor, who needed a big weekend to prevent them from falling back in the Big 12 standings, came up huge to maintain their spot as the four-seed heading into the Big 12 championships. ![]() 11 and Oklahoma State fell five spots to No. After being swept by the Baylor Bears, the Texas Longhorns dropped six spots to No. 2, followed by Florida State, Tennessee, and Washington in the top 5. 1 in the nation in the latest D1Softabll top 25. The Sooners closed the season on an incredible 41-game winning streak. 1 pitching staff in terms of ERA, and the No. The weekend was a testament to the Sooners’ ability to win in a variety of ways with the No. On Sunday, they got a couple of timely two-run hits and road Alex Storako to victory. The first game of the series was an 8-3 win where the offense was just too much for the Cowgirls. The Sooners were really only in trouble in one of the games, but with a little seventh-inning magic, came back to stun the Cowgirls. Not that they needed to sweep Oklahoma State in their Big 12 series finale to say so, but the Oklahoma Sooners reaffirmed their status as the top team in the country. ![]()
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