The New Engine: LA Maquina Nueva (English and Spanish Edition)

By Carlos Encinas

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885772246
• ISBN13: 9781885772244
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Kiva Pub Inc
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Don't let a youngster miss a good read.

In this story, a boy named Mijo tells about a problem his family faces: his father might lose his job at the railroad because of the change from steam locomotives to diesel locomotives. What will his family do? What can Mijo do to stop what he calls the "Beast?" In the end, does new technology hurt Mijo and his family?The book is wonderfully illustrated and written in both English and Spanish. Don't let a youngster miss a good read they can learn from. Changes will sometimes disrupt our lives and we have to adapt to new situations.As a children's book author, I highly recommend, "The New Engine/La Maquina Nueva" to young readers.

An excellent book for multicultural children

This bilingual children's picturebook, with its full text in both English and Spanish, teaches young children the importance of adapting to new things in a changing, sometimes frightening world. Carlos Encinas' full color, computer-based illustrations add an extra-dimensional quality to the great and powerful engine that comes to the peaceful world of the young narrator. An excellent book for multicultural children who are learning two languages.