Los Gatos Black on Halloween

Montes, M.  (2006).  Los gatos black on halloween.  New York:  Henry Holt and Company.
This book received the Pura Belpre Award. (2008)

October is my favorite month, so I became very excited when I came across this book.  This picture book is also a wonderful rhyming book. When I began reading this book, I was thinking how this book would be wonderful to use when discussing context clues.  Marisa Montes has incorporated Spanish words into this Halloween book.  The illustrations give a lot of support to students who do not know what the words mean.  Students should also be able to figure out what the words mean by using their context clues.  Marisa Montes has included a Spanish glossary at the end of the book.  

I teach at an extremely diverse school.  My classroom has a high percentage of Hispanic students.  I could already hear them getting excited about them already knowing what many of the words already mean.

I loved this book and I have already added it to the list of books I need to buy before the beginning of the school year.