Montes, Marisa. 2006. LOS GATOS ON HALLOWEEN. Ill. by Yuyi Morales. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9780805074291
In the picture storybook, LOS GATOS ON HALLOWEEN, Montes uses mainly English text, with Spanish words and phrases inter-mixed. Most pages start with a Spanish word that the reader will easily be able to decode using the context clues and illustrations available. As each of the spooky Halloween characters start off, the suspense will rise as the reader anticipates their final destination. The reader will be delightfully surprised to find the story twists so that the monsters are terrified of the children. Montes creates a rhythmic chant that with rhyming line pairs that readers will enjoy performing. “Text meanders across the page, fitting itself around the shenanigans of fat witches, natty vampires and elegant corpses (Ellis).”
Winning the 2008 Pura Belpre award for illustrations, Morales uses dark colors and shadowing techniques to exemplify the eerie feelings of Halloween. Brighter colors come into the scene and lighten the mood for the monster ball. Each scene adds emphasis to the storylines being chanted. Readers will delight in this spooky Halloween tale and demand for it to be retold.
Reference:
Ellis, Sarah. 2006. New York Times Book Review. 43:18-19. Accessed on-line January 2008.
In the picture storybook, LOS GATOS ON HALLOWEEN, Montes uses mainly English text, with Spanish words and phrases inter-mixed. Most pages start with a Spanish word that the reader will easily be able to decode using the context clues and illustrations available. As each of the spooky Halloween characters start off, the suspense will rise as the reader anticipates their final destination. The reader will be delightfully surprised to find the story twists so that the monsters are terrified of the children. Montes creates a rhythmic chant that with rhyming line pairs that readers will enjoy performing. “Text meanders across the page, fitting itself around the shenanigans of fat witches, natty vampires and elegant corpses (Ellis).”
Winning the 2008 Pura Belpre award for illustrations, Morales uses dark colors and shadowing techniques to exemplify the eerie feelings of Halloween. Brighter colors come into the scene and lighten the mood for the monster ball. Each scene adds emphasis to the storylines being chanted. Readers will delight in this spooky Halloween tale and demand for it to be retold.
Reference:
Ellis, Sarah. 2006. New York Times Book Review. 43:18-19. Accessed on-line January 2008.
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