Dragonario: Un catálogo de dragonas y dragones

Gr 1–4—Lime-green dragon scales fill the endpapers and provide a nice transition from its whimsical cover images into a set of colorfully illustrated story poems about the mythical beasts. Each singular, lighthearted poem in this oversize text focuses on a different dragon, including a bicycle-riding dragon and a fire-breathing, food-grilling dragon, among others. The book's cartoonlike images are reminiscent of the illustration style in the classic early reader title Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff, but with a greater variety of boldly colored monsters in various shapes and sizes and featuring several dragonesses. Originally written and published in Spanish, this text is perfect for shared read-alouds in bilingual or foreign language classes and library settings, given its playful rhyming poems that beg to be memorized. However, the spread with the dragon from China, whose stories drone on and on (evidenced in the text and by "Blah, blah, blah" in the illustration's background), includes stereotypical imagery of the Chinese oft promoted in media and books over the years, namely slanted eyes pushed closed by a huge smiling mouth of sizable buck teeth.