8.13.2009

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale by Carmen Deedy


It is time for Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha, the beautiful muchacha, to find a husband. Her abuela tells her that she needs to give each suitor the “coffee on the shoes” test in order to find a good husband. Who will Martina choose? Will it be Don Gallo the rooster, Don Cerdo the pig, Don Lagarto the lizard or Perez the mouse? How does coffee help Martina? All these are questions answered in this delightfully illustrated Cuban folktale.

41 comments:

  1. I liked the book because it had some puns that had to do with the animals / insects in this book. I didn't like this book because the cacaroach was green and I usualy see only brown.

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  2. This book was funny. It had some good pictures. At first I thought it was going to be a baby book but it turned out to be ok.I would give it a 5 out of 5

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  3. I liked this book because I loved the play on words. I liked that that the cockroaches were green and I'm used to brown cockroaches.

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  4. Martina the Beautiful Cockroach is a funny and crazy book about finding a husban .This is a good book for spanish readers

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  5. I loved it because it was funny with the play on words.I also like the coffe teast.And the to cuben grandmothers.

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  6. i liked how martina used the coffee trick that her great cuben grandmother told her to do. and i also liked all the charictors in the story!

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  7. I think Martina the beatiful cockroach is a funny book, and I would like to read it again. I didn't like how it spoke spanish because I do not understand spanish.

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  8. This is an interesting book is about a cockroach looking for marriage. The way she finds one is crazy. And the idioms are unnoticable until stated out loud. This is a book for all ages. I reccomend it for young readers who have a large imagination.

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  9. Mrs.King read us this book and I thought that it was funny because when she was about to pour the coffee on Perez then he poured the coffee on her beacause he had a Cuban grandma that told him to do that too.

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  10. I love it because it is funny when the lizzerd said ," to beleive I was going to eat/ I mean marry you."

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  11. i liked the book because it was funny and i did not like that some of the words were in spanish but the rest of the book was good.

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  12. I liked how long Martinas name was and how all the animals called her a muchacha and their reactions to coffee in their shoes.

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  13. This book was intresting becaue it has a cokroach marrying a mouse which is weird . This was good because it tells a grandma incouraging a grandchild.

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  14. This book was good and I would like to read it again.It wascute because martina found love.

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  15. I think this is a good book if you are looking for a picture book. Also, I think this is good for young readers because it doesn't have alot of words.

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  16. Martina The Beautiful Cockorach was very unique cause the writter put funny, jokes in the book
    and Martina found who or what she was looking for.

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  17. Martina the beautiful cockroach is a funny book I liked it because the coffe test

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  18. I like how the author used a cockroch in sted of a prson.This book was OK.

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  19. I thought it was sweet and funny to. Because she was going to mary someone and they were not perfect until she met the mouse.

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  20. Martina rimns me of a cockroach in my bed wine I felt somthing wirde it feited wigley sqegley slimey.

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  21. This is an ok book to me. The book is about a cockroach trying to find a husband.

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  22. this book was so funny. it was so funny when the mouse and martina both poured coffe on each other shoes

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  23. I liked and it was funny and would she marry a mouse and spill coffe on the anmlaes and how the alther did it and the allstasn did it and it made me lafead out laund.

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  24. this book was funny because they rat and martina both poured coffe on their feet becaue they both had cuban grandmothers

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  25. I like this book because it is funny and weird.

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  26. I liked this book because it was about a green cockroachand this book was well illsurated.

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  27. i liked this book expechily when isaw the fat rat and when he said i to have a cuban grandmother.

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  28. I liked this book because it was about a green coach roach and very good pictures.

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  29. i loved how the rat and martina poured the coffe on theere foot and i read this in spanish and in english i didnt understand it in spanish that mush thogh

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  30. I LIKED THIS BOOK CAUSE THE COCROACH WAS GREEN AND IM USED TO ORANGE AND BLACK COCROACHES.

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  31. I read alot of things I did not know of frogs before I read this book. I did not know frogs were that smart till I read about them. I think that this is a good book to read if you did not know about frogs.

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  32. I liked this book baecaues it is very differt from all other books. My favorit part is wene she met the mouse.

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  33. I adore this book! I love how the author took expressions and changed them around. I think this was a great book. I like how the cockroach spilt coffee to see how they reacted.

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  34. I liked this book I could read it over and over
    I loved the green cocroaches.

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  35. I thought it was an ok book. I didn't like how it started in the begining but as I read on it was really good. I like how she ended up with the mouse. I saw him in the flower pot but i thought it was just a plain picture.I feel sorry for the mouse because he was blind.

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  36. This was a good book. My favorite part of the book is when Martina tried to pour the coffee on the mouse's shoes, but when Martina poured it, the mouse pushed the cup back to Martina, and the coffee got on her shoes.

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  37. this one of the best books you can never find a good book like this dont judge a book by its cover

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  38. Funny and the coffee test was super helpful and funny.

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  39. I liked this book because it was funny and very helpful! So now I know before I get married to a guy I should spill coffe on his shoe!

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  40. I love Frogs because it has a lot of interesting facts about frogs

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  41. Martina was going to get married but her suitors failed to please her. The one she did marry knew her trick.

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