If Your Babysitter Is a Bruja
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
This bouncy, bilingual picture book is an enchanting, rollicking read-aloud for small ones with big imaginations.
On the night before Halloween, a new babysitter might be more than she appears. If she wears a black sombrero and cackles like a crow, she might just be a bruja! One little girl is determined not to fall victim to an evil witch or her cats. She knows bath time is really the bruja’s way of putting her in a boiling cauldron, and the only way to keep her at bay is with a magic potion—or is it?
With a boundless imagination and plenty of tricks up her sleeve, the young protagonist may just have the best night ever!
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As Halloween approaches, an evening with a new babysitter becomes a high-energy adventure in Siqueria's seasonal story, which incorporates Spanish phrases. Though the sitter rolls up on a bicycle, the book's second-person narrator sees things with holiday-colored glasses: "If she zooms in on a broom, black sombrero on her head, cackling like a crow... ¡¡CORRE! RUN!" Vibrant vignettes center the child and possibly-bruja babysitter, both portrayed with tan skin, Freitas depicts the action: the backyard jungle gym becomes a castle under an inky black sky dotted with ghost decorations, while bath time is described as involving "a bubbling cauldron with starving COCODRILOS!!!" As the child comes around on the sitter, final scenes sustain the upbeat tone. Ages 4–8.
