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- Martina The Cockroach Kama Einhorn
- Martina The Cockroach Kama Einhorn
Martina The Beautiful Cockroach Book
Product Description: Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a deliciously inventive Cuban version of the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of cafe cubano. Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage. That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking advice. You want me to do what? Martina gasps.
Martina The Cockroach Kama Einhorn
At first, Martina is skeptical of her Abuela's unorthodox suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails The Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love. Soon, only the gardener Perez, a tiny brown mouse, is left. But what will happen when Martina offers him cafe cubano? After reading this sweet and witty retelling of the Cuban folktale, you'll never look at a cockroach the same way again. Read more.Rating:based on 1 rating(s)Subjects.More like this. Product Description: Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a deliciously inventive Cuban version of the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of cafe cubano. Martina the beautiful cockroach doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage.
That's where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her something really useful: un consejo increible, some shocking advice. You want me to do what? Martina gasps. At first, Martina is skeptical of her Abuela's unorthodox suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails The Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love. Soon, only the gardener Perez, a tiny brown mouse, is left. But what will happen when Martina offers him cafe cubano?
Martina The Cockroach Kama Einhorn
- Martina The Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale (Turtleback Binding Edition) Carmen Agra Deedy, Michael Austin on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. In this humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale, a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.
- Poetry Assignment Make your own poem based on the Martina the Beautiful Cockroach book. It needs to be an acrostic poem using any word that relates to the story. Write the word horizontally down the page. Write a line of the poem for each letter of the word you choose.
After reading this sweet and witty retelling of the Cuban folktale, you'll never look at a cockroach the same way again.
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