Pepita Packs Up / Pepita Empaca

By Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas & Delange, Alex Pardo & Ventura, Gabriela Baeza

Publishers Summary:
The fifth installment in a popular series of bilingual picture books This is the next installment of the spunky heroine Pepita, but she’s not staying for long. No, there is a big yellow moving truck parked in front of Pepita’s house. The family’s furniture is piled in the back, but Pepita is not ready to say goodbye. She likes her little street and the grocer who works at one end, the ladies work at the tortilla shop at the other end, and her Tía Rosa who lives right in the middle. When Mamá sends Pepita to run errands, Mr. Hobbs, the grocer, asks, "Are you here to say goodbye?" Then the ladies in the tortilla shop ask. Then Tía Rosa. But Pepita insists that she’s not saying goodbye because "goodbye is an ugly word." But she’ll miss her neighbor and best friend Sonya the most. Papá says that she’ll have to tell Sonya goodbye. This bilingual picture book focuses on the tough transition that many kids make: leaving a beloved place for a new one. Readers ages 3 to 7 will follow plucky Pepita as she learns to move on.

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ISBN
978-1-55885-431-4
Publisher
Arte Publico Press


REVIEWS

School Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 2006

PreS-Gr 2 The prospect of moving away from the only home they have ever known is difficult for all children. Here, Pepita drags herself through moving day, not wanting to say goodbye to her friends and neighbors. She avoids those words as studiously as she avoids packing up her last box of toys. Ins...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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