Alma Flor Ada

Stories for the Telling CD
Libros para contar CD

CDS AND CASSETTES DESCRIPTION

There is a spe­cial value to lis­ten­ing to a books read by the author. Such record­ings show just where the author wishes to con­vey feel­ings and emo­tions, empha­sis and sus­pense. When the text is put to music it acquires addi­tional inter­est for children.

The spe­cial nature of each of these books led to very dif­fer­ent and excit­ing record­ings of each one. Friends or Ami­gos — This pow­er­ful tale of cel­e­bra­tion of diver­sity has been read both in Eng­lish and in Span­ish by Alma Flor Ada. The lis­ten­ers of the record­ing in Span­ish will have a com­ple­men­tary expe­ri­ence. Alma Flor has rewrit­ten the story in verse and Suni Paz has cre­ated music for the ver­sion in verse. Her beau­ti­ful per­for­mance gives addi­tional charm to this poignant story of mul­ti­cul­tural understanding.

How Happy I Would Be or Me gus­taría tener — Suni Paz has cre­ated orig­i­nal music for this cumu­la­tive book of rhyming words. Her whim­si­cal ren­di­tion will charm all listeners.

The Song of the Teeny Tiny Mos­quito or El canto del mos­quito -– The orig­i­nal music cre­ated by Suni Paz com­pli­ments this whim­si­cal cumu­la­tive tale. Her vivid per­for­mance cap­tures the listener’s imag­i­na­tion until it seems that the mos­quito is buzzing right in our ears.

Strange Vis­i­tors -– In this cumu­la­tive tale dif­fer­ent ani­mals appear each day of the week, each play­ing a dif­fer­ent instru­ment until they all join in a won­der­ful Sun­day jarana. The record­ing, done by a tal­ented duo of a mother and her young daugh­ter, presents the instru­ments in a joy­ful way that will facil­i­tate that chil­dren learn to rec­og­nize their sound. The young lis­ten­ers can join the daugh­ter in her responses mak­ing the lis­ten­ing an inter­ac­tive experience.

Who’s Hatch­ing Here or ¿Quién nac­erá aquí? – This pre­dictable book invites chil­dren to guess, through the clues in the rhyming text, who will be the next ani­mal hatch­ing from a cer­tain group of eggs. On her per­for­mance of the music Suni cre­ated for this book she incor­po­rates spe­cial sound effects to con­tribute to the pre­dictable clues.

These extra­or­di­nary record­ings have been pro­duced in indi­vid­ual cas­settes in Eng­lish and Span­ish, one for each book of the series, and in Hait­ian Cre­ole for Zanmi. There is also a CD in Eng­lish and one in Span­ish. Each of the CDs con­tains the five books of the series.