Los Pollitos/ Little Chickies

With Los Pollitos/ Little Chickies, author-illustrator Susie Jaramillo took a well-loved Spanish-language nursery rhyme and turned it into an endearing, reversible, lift-the-flap, accordion-style board book--one side all in Spanish and one side translated into English, except for the "pío" (cheep) sounds, which are too cute (and onomatopoeic) not to be in both versions.

"Los pollitos dicen/ ¡pío! ¡pío! ¡pío!" ("Little chickies squeal ¡pío! ¡pío! ¡pío!") Lift up the cracked egg to reveal a hatched chick peeping away. The story is simple: chicks cheep until their mother fetches them some corn from the field, feeds them, then snuggles up with her babies under her wing "where they'll stay,/ until another day."

This interactive, intuitively designed, cheerfully illustrated book (with slipcase) is charming on its own, but becomes even more memorable when readers hear it sung: the small print in the back reveals how to download the app for "Canticos: Los Pollitos." ¡Pío! ¡Pío! --Karin Snelson, children's & YA editor, Shelf Awareness