Nonfiction blog

 

Title: Tito Puente Mambo King/ Rey Del Mambo

Author: Monica Brown
Illustrator: Rafael Lopez
Age group: 4-8 y/o
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Genre: Nonfiction

Summary

This book is about Tito Puente a famous musician/music writer who is known as the Mambo King. In the story we learn about how growing up he loved to play anything to make music. His mother get him music lessons, and soon enough he is participating in events and performing in restaurants and such. His dream though, is to be the leader of a band, and his dream finally comes true when he became the leader of his group called Tito Puente and his Orchestra. Throughout the book we learn that Tito Puente liked to play baseball when he was young, and that he was in the Navy for a while. 

Evaluation

The book is a really good book and something that I really liked was that it was a bilingual book. The drawings are amazing and it can be seen that a lot of thought was put into them. I would use the book in class, because it is a book that can be useful for second language learners and native English speakers. The book can be used for a read aloud. It can also be used to teach the students about someone who was contributed to music. The book can be used to show students that dreams can come true as well if we work hard and strive to make our dreams come true. I really liked that the book gave good information on Tito Puente and at the end it gives some more biographical information about Tito Puente in both English and Spanish.