Review of How Many Javelinas? / Cuántos Jabalíes?

Emile and the FieldHow Many Javelinas? / Cuántos Jabalíes?
by April Lesher; illus. by Gabriela Vega
Preschool    Lawley    32 pp.
4/24    9781958302989    $21.99

To keep track of her rollicking brood and eventually scare off a predator in this bilingual counting book, a mamá javelina calls her babies using a Spanish counting song “Dos y dos son cuatro. / Cuatro y dos son seis. / Seis y dos son ocho, / y ocho dieciséis.” Alternating English lines help translate the song contextually (literally translated at the end of the book) and richly colored illustrations bring the javelinas’ desert home to life.

From the ">January 2024 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Monica de los Reyes

Monica de los Reyes is an editorial intern for The Horn Book, Inc., studying toward a  master’s in American studies at University of Massachusetts Boston, where she focuses on literature, Latinx studies, and feminism.

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