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Agua Agua Agua
Retells Aesop's fable of the thirsty crow who is able to get a drink by dropping pebbles into the water until the level is high enough for him to reach it with his beak
16 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1994
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Pat Mora
87 books99 followersPat Mora (born 1942) is a female Mexican-American author and poet. Pat Mora was born in El Paso, Texas. She is married and has 3 grown children.
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April 11, 2021
Book Title: Agua, Agua, Agua
Author/Illustrator: Retold by Pat Mora, Illustrated by Jose Ortega
Reading Level: 3.0
Book Level: grades 1-3
Book Summary: A retelling of an Aesop's fable of the story about a crow that can’t reach the water that he wants from the dry desert land. He adds three pebbles to the water, to make the water level rise so he can get a drink.
Bookshelf Genre: Traditional Literature
Bookshelf Mentor Writing Traits:
Word Choice: I loved the colors used throughout this book. This adaptation blends two languages: English and Spanish. This book works well to use with bilingual students. When practicing writing sentences, students could practice blending English and Spanish words.
Ideas: Students could practice writing their own fable. They could brainstorm different animals and situations that they could use in their own fable writing.
Author/Illustrator: Retold by Pat Mora, Illustrated by Jose Ortega
Reading Level: 3.0
Book Level: grades 1-3
Book Summary: A retelling of an Aesop's fable of the story about a crow that can’t reach the water that he wants from the dry desert land. He adds three pebbles to the water, to make the water level rise so he can get a drink.
Bookshelf Genre: Traditional Literature
Bookshelf Mentor Writing Traits:
Word Choice: I loved the colors used throughout this book. This adaptation blends two languages: English and Spanish. This book works well to use with bilingual students. When practicing writing sentences, students could practice blending English and Spanish words.
Ideas: Students could practice writing their own fable. They could brainstorm different animals and situations that they could use in their own fable writing.
April 19, 2019
I love the crossover with Spanish and English learning.
September 5, 2023
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This is a very simplistic story of Crow’s search for water on a hot, hot day. When Crow finds water caught in a narrow crevice between two rocks, it is too far down for Crow to reach. But clever Crow retrieves three pebbles and one by one drops them into the crevice, pushing the water upwards until, with the third pebble, Crow can reach the water. Originally from an Aesop’s fable translated into English as “The Crow & the Pitcher” (the moral attached to the Aesop’s fable is “In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out”), in this retelling Pat Mora creates a bilingual story with English and some simple Spanish vocabulary (uno, dos, tres, si, no, and agua.) With its repetitive text, I think this would be a good text for a beginning reader, particularly for bilingual students. I also think it could be a fun story time read, although I think it could use some embellishment to make it a longer story for that audience, perhaps some audience participation. José Ortega’s block prints are simple and bright and go well with the text.
This is a very simplistic story of Crow’s search for water on a hot, hot day. When Crow finds water caught in a narrow crevice between two rocks, it is too far down for Crow to reach. But clever Crow retrieves three pebbles and one by one drops them into the crevice, pushing the water upwards until, with the third pebble, Crow can reach the water. Originally from an Aesop’s fable translated into English as “The Crow & the Pitcher” (the moral attached to the Aesop’s fable is “In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out”), in this retelling Pat Mora creates a bilingual story with English and some simple Spanish vocabulary (uno, dos, tres, si, no, and agua.) With its repetitive text, I think this would be a good text for a beginning reader, particularly for bilingual students. I also think it could be a fun story time read, although I think it could use some embellishment to make it a longer story for that audience, perhaps some audience participation. José Ortega’s block prints are simple and bright and go well with the text.
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April 25, 2011I didnt like this book at all. I thought it was weird, and awkward. not something i'd want tin my own library.
October 27, 2012
appropriate for reading to little little ones. The story is very short. I don't necessarily like the way the Spanish words are added in such an uneven fashion.
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