The text carefully incorporates Spanish words into the rhyming text: "Bebe in the shopping cart, high in the seat, / looks around for a dulce-a sweet." Almost all the words can be understood from the context or from the pictures-and oh, what pictures! Using gouache, watercolors, colored inks, and pencils, Salerno evokes the hip, retro style of 1950s cartoon-style advertisements to introduce an attractive young mother, hair swinging in a ponytail, and her adorable baby. Every child (and parent) will identify with what comes next, as Mama tries to grab what she needs while bebe follows his own agenda. That slows things down, but heightens the fun. Mama is headed to the grocery store (the supermercado), but bebe has to come along. Introducing a young child to Spanish has never been as attractive as in this shopping romp.
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