Waiting for the Biblioburro

Great story and gorgeous, engaging illustrations. My students were delighted to find out that it’s based on fact! This story was part of an Expeditionary Learning unit that I’m using with my class.

This is a realistic fiction story about a girl who loves to read, but lives in a remote village where her teacher moved away and books are few. Then, one day, the biblioburro arrives. I love reading this book to my class of 1st graders. It's a good read aloud book for inferring, including trying to figure out what a biblioburro is and why Luis' burros are named Alpha and Beto. I also liked that the author included information about the real Luis and the different types of traveling libraries that bring books to readers around the world.

Adorable book with terrific illustrations. However, it’s VERY short! My 8 yr old read it from start to finish in about 5-10 min.

It’s a great story about the love of reading and writing stories! Parents could read to a child or an independent reader at a 2nd grade level could read it. This book helps encourage children to generate their own stories. As an elementary school reading instructor this is a great book to inspire story-telling and learn about how other cultures find ways to share books!

This is based on a true story from Columbia. But when you read the story, it fells very cross-national. I could easily believe the story was from Mexico or Honduras etc. A girl's teacher moves away and she has only one book. She longs to read more books, but there are no options in her remote area. One day a man brings books on burros and the traveling library enables her to read new stories. In the end, the child is spurred to write her own stories to share with others. This would be a great introductory book into visiting a library, understanding other cultures, learning basic Spanish, and writing a story. Intermixed throughout the story are some Spanish words (which are not translated to English). So the book would be highly appropriate for bilingual classes... but translation is needed for non-Spanish speakers. There is no pronunciation explained either from how to say the alphabet or the Spanish words - so its up to the reader to make sure they are doing it right. A quick search on the internet brought up the pronunciation refreshers I needed. Overall its a good book with images that are sure to engage students.

Excelente!

This is a great addition to my family library - perfect for my 6 and 8 year olds. It's a great, true story with a great moral about the power of an individual to make a difference. Plus it has some great Colombian flare.

I love this book because it’s a true story and it has a lot of stuff like true stories and we’ll nice things I chose this rating because it’s a super good book and I’m pretty sure you’d love it I like amended 5 up to 12