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Jorge Amado Book Review:. Historical Dictionary of South American Cinema. Author : Peter H. Directory of World Cinema Brazil. Pura Belpr Awards. Pat sitting on her daughter Libby's lap. While at first kids teased the young and large Flor, she quickly became an asset to them, whisking them off to school when they were running late or making tortillas big enough to be used as rafts on the river. The animals know where the gato is so she follows their advice and the situation is delightfully resolved.
There is great texture and movement on each page in the sun-baked tones of the landscape. With Spanish words peppered throughout, this is a welcome entry to the canon that includes other heroines like Sally Ann Thunder and Thunder Rose. She can reach up and touch the estrellas, stars.
At one point, she jumps up and bruises the sun in the eye. She reads to the children in her village every day. She makes huge tortillas that can be used as roofs for homes and rafts for children.
When Flor sings, birds come and build their nests in her hair. Flor loves animals and can speak every language. They believe it is a mountain lion, el puma!! As I read this wonderfully written and illustrated tall tale, I felt as if Flor symbolized all the strong Latino women.
I am not sure if that was the intention, but that was my perception. She cooks, reads, makes the home welcome to all and has a beautiful, big heart. Dona Flor is an excellent picture book to include in a classroom library. It positively portrays the Latino culture. Beautiful cultural images and messages are found throughout the story. In addition, I appreciate the fact that the heroic protagonist is female.
Flor is not a tiny, dainty woman who needs protection from the world. He uses a combination of watercolor washes, etching and colored pencils. Readers are immersed in the Latino culture as they read this creative, light-hearted and entertaining tall tale. Oct 23, Raisa Marrow rated it it was amazing Shelves: wow-books. Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart is a heartwarming story about a woman who grows so big because of her mother who loves her so much that she sings to her everyday which causes her to continue growing.
This book exemplifies what true kindness is as it describes Dona Flor's love for her friends through all of the special things she does for them like letting them use her giant leftover tortillas as rafts or going to find the puma who is making frightening noises. Do Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart is a heartwarming story about a woman who grows so big because of her mother who loves her so much that she sings to her everyday which causes her to continue growing.
I would recommend it for grades K This book could be used to teach students about the different elements of folklore. This book would also make a great read aloud because it takes place in Mexico and incorporates Spanish words that are easy to figure out based on the context in the story. This would be great to read during Hispanic Heritage month or at any time of the year to promote culturally responsive texts.
It also has many good lessons to teach young children such as kindness and friendship. The heartwarming nature of the story combined with the vivid images and intertwined cultures gives me so many possibilities of how I can use this text to teach young readers. Apr 22, Brooke Nelson rated it it was amazing Shelves: elmbooks. Dona Flor is an excellent book to read, I really loved reading this book! The title is exactly what the book is about, a giant woman with a big heart!
Dona Flor is about a girl who grew to be a giant because her mother would sing to her as a baby, and the more she sang to her the more she grew. Some of the kids would bully her because of how big she was and because the could talk every language even to bugs and even rattlers. However, the children ended up growing very fond of Dona Flor. When sh Dona Flor is an excellent book to read, I really loved reading this book! When she finally stopped growing she built her own house and made everyone including the plants and animals feel welcome in her home, "mi casa es su casa", she said.
Dona Flor cooked corn tortillas for the whole town so everyone could have something to eat. In the summer children would use her tortillas as rafts. However, one day she could not find her people and she went to ask what was wrong. Her friends told her they were scared because they heard a mountain lion around the village. So of course, Dona Flor went searching for el gato, the cat, who made the wind angry from all the noise he was making. She tried to cheer her scared friends up but she couldn't, so she went on another search to find the puma.
When she finally found the roaring animal, to her surprise it was a small cat, who thought it was funny to make the big roaring noises and scare the people. She became friends with the puma and brought him back to the village where everyone also became friends with him too! Dona Flora saved the day and put her town back together again. I would read this folklore to primary age children in K-2 in a read aloud setting.
I would also use this book to teach students about tall tales and have the students come up with their own tale. I would also use this book to teach the importance of friendship and how it is okay to be friends with people who are not like us. I think this book could explore a lot of different lessons to teach children and I really enjoyed reading it.
Apr 04, Meg Stolte rated it really liked it Shelves: traditional-literature. Flor grows big and tall and quickly becomes respected in the community, as she takes care of them in various ways. She makes giant, delicious tortillas for the entire pueblo, and when the strong wind blows hard in the morning, she hugs the wind to make it calm down.
She comforts the people of the pueblo and leads them back home. This could be used in 2nd-4th grade to teach about how a community can take care of each other and watch out for each other — for example, at the beginning of the school year, when discussing the qualities we want to see in our classroom community.
The most obvious use of this book would be in a folktales unit in 2nd grade to compare various genres of folktales, as an example of a tall tale. It could also be used in 4th grade in a storytelling unit, where the students could use storyboards to recreate the story, and then practice retelling the story orally to small groups.
Oct 12, Joshua Arvey rated it really liked it Shelves: picture-books , pura-belpre , tall-tales , traditional-literature. If they are running late to school she picks them up and only takes one step to get them there. Then one day she notices that her tiny friends are not out playing. She goes to one house and asks why no one is out? They reply there is a puma roaring around and they are scared.
Dona struggles trying to find this puma. When she does find the puma she notices that it is a tiny puma that is roaring into a hollow branch to make that sound much larger.
All of her friends were worried about where she had gone and they went to go find her. When they found her they noticed the tiny puma as well.
After they noticed the puma became very friendly. The character is not to convincing since giants are not real and hard to connect with. Overall I do not believe that Dona showed any growth since she already had such a strong personality of wanting to help out that it continued throughout the story. The author promotes diverse groups by mainly focusing on the Latina culture.
Oct 12, Kayla Rhome rated it it was amazing Shelves: traditional-literature , multicultural , pura-belpre-award , tall-tale. Dona Flor is a giant woman that lives in a town where she lives with lots of different families.
Dona Flor loves her neighbors. She allows the children to use her flowers as trumpets and her leftover tortillas as rafts. Day after day Dona stomps around and cannot find out where this rawr is coming from. Then one day Dona Flor tracks the rawr down, and it ends up just being a tiny small puma rawring into a small wooden log. The village trusted Dona Flor to investigate and protect them and that she did.
Adding Spanish into this tall tale is what makes this story a flexible text to use in all different kinds of areas in your classroom. Pat Mora does a great job at telling a Spanish cultural story in English and intertwining both cultures is a great element for the story. Jun 22, Cammym rated it liked it Shelves: wou-children-s-ya-lit. It's great to find a tall tale with Latino characters. Dona Flor is a giant woman who lives in a pueblo and makes giant tortillas to share with everyone.
She has a big heart and tries to help the people of the pueblo any way she can, by taming the wind, re-routing a river, and getting to the bottom of the mysterious giant puma that is scaring everyone so much they don't even want to leave their houses. Available in Spanish. Picture book, tall tale, multicultural. Pura Belpre medal for illustrator, It's great to find a tall tale with Latino characters.
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