Books

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS CAN BE FOUND IN THE CMMC.

**Rookie Read-About Holidays: Cinco de Mayo** Written By: Mary Dodson Wade Photo Researcher: Caroline Anderson ISBN:0-516-22664-9 Summary: This book gives you everything you need to know as a student reading the book. It tells when Cinco de Mayo is, what traditional things are done (parades, music, food) and also why Cinco de Mayo is a holiday. This is a very good book for K-2 readers to get an idea of what the holiday is about. It does not go too in depth to the point they would not understand the book, but still gives them the basic knowledge we would want them to understand as teachers. It also has a lot of pictures from actual celebration that happen for Cinco de Mayo, which is very helpful for students to understand what actually happens on this day.

**Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, With Fiestas, Music, and Dance** Written By: Carolyn Otto ISBN: 978-1-4263-0215-2 Summary: Focusing more on the History in the beginning of the book gives a background knowledge for the readers to understand why Cinco de Mayo is celebrated. This book also then talks about the War and how they were very proud of their victory, so they began to celebrate. Fiestas, Music, and Dancing then come into the book and show us how they celebrate. One aspect of this book I really enjoyed was it talked to the readers about what the people dressed like going to the fiesta, this helped give a visual idea of what they looked like while at the fiesta, mainly red, white and green according to this text. I would say this would be a book you would want to read to K-2 if you were talking about Holidays, simply because it is a little more in depth and may have some vocabulary you would want to review with the students. THE FOLLOWING ARE OTHER BOOKS IN GENERAL THAT CAN BE ASSOCIATED WITH CINCO DE MAYO **Cinco De Mouse-O** Written By: Judy Cox Illustrated by: Jeffrey Ebbeler ISBN: 978-0-8234-2328-6 Online Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv9HCXqKZYQ Purchased at: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cinco-de-mouse-o-judy-cox/1113967645 Summary: On the morning of May 5, the mouse wakes up and smells a wonderful sweet smell that he must find out where it is coming from. He looked all around the house but could not find the smell, so went out on the streets and began to search for the sweet smell when he saw a cat began to chase him. He found himself in the middle of a parade trying to get away from the cat, people were dancing as he was trying to run away from the cat. Candy was everywhere, all over the streets, as people were trying to pick up candy somebody stepped on the cats tail, so the cat ran home and the mouse made it out safe. Throughout this story, it gives hints of what Cinco de Mayo was like, but also keeping readers interested of what was happening to the mouse and the cat inside the celebrations. media type="youtube" key="hv9HCXqKZYQ" width="560" height="315" **Max Celebrates Cinco de Mayo** Written by: Adria Worsham ISBN: 9781404847590 Online Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXShXVgBlR0 Purchased at: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/max-celebrates-cinco-de-mayo-mernie-gallagher-cole/1123873277/2674631560288?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Catch-All,+Low_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP79700 Summary: Max and Jose are really good friends, and Max goes to hang out with Jose and his family. It is Cindo de Mayo, and they are having a fiesta. Throughout the story, Jose explains to Max what Cinco de Mayo is and what they are doing to celebrate the day. Max then goes with Jose to the parade and he is having so much fun. They both get to play with piñata and get lots of candy, which they are both excited about. Max ends up wanting to come with Jose to all of Cinco de Mayo celebrations every year. This book is a very easy read for K-2 readers, it has many pictures with not a lot of words on the page so the reader gets the important information as well as pictures to explain what is going on. media type="youtube" key="fXShXVgBlR0" width="560" height="315" HOME