Martina the Beautiful Cockroach has been nominated for the Irma Black Award and the Pura Belpré Award for Narrative. We really enjoyed this book and purchased it at the school book fair for our oldest daughter's Second grade teacher for her class.This is a wonderful folktale for young children and it is filled with touches of Hispanic culture, sage wisdom, respect for elders, and the sweet kind of ending you'd expect in a children's story. I read it with my Kindergarteners, but it could most definitely be used as a read aloud or independently read book through fifth grade. She tells her granddaughter, Martina of a coffee spill test that will helpIn this hilarious picture book, Carmen Agra Deedy tells a cuban folktale about a cockroach. So she must use the Coffee Test...spill a little coffee on each potential suitor's shoes and see how they react.What a delightful story! I love the characters. This Cuban folklore tells the story of how Martina identified a Cucaracha suitable to marry by following her grandmother’s unorthodox advice (i.e., The Coffee Test). Teachers could use this text to introduce their students to various cultures.

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While exposing students to the cuban culture you can also have the students share about their own cultures and customs. It added to the beauty of the folktale. This book outlines and follows Martina's "difficult" journey to find a husband suitable for her and her family.

I feel like I might have read something similar to this before. The blog supports K-12 teaching about Latin America by providing resources to educators, including lesson plans, author + book suggestions, and related materials.Help us get our resources out to more educators and community members! According to the introduction of the book, this folktale is one of the best known in Latin …

According to Scholastic, the text complexity ranges from slightly difficult text organization; to moderately difficult meaning, visual features, conventionality, sentence structure, and life experiences; to very difficult vocabulary and cultural knowledge. Additionally, I might use this book as a way for my Hispanic students to feel more at home in my classroom- either having their family members come in and read this story, or having them help with pronouncing words, or even just to have diverse literature in our classroom.

Her Cuban grandmother warns her that it will be easy to find suitors but challenging to make a good choice. It is a very sweet story.Martina the Beautiful Cockroach is definitely an interesting story!



We really enjoyed this book and purchased it at the school book fair for our oldest daughter's Second grade teacher for her class.A clever and fun folk tale where beautiful Martina is trying to choose a husband. (The only thing I found weird was that the suitors for Martina the Beautiful Cockroach were NOT other cochroaches but lizards and pigs and such... but, hey, it is a fable!

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