{"id":41738,"date":"2024-08-10T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41738"},"modified":"2024-08-10T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:05:24","slug":"review-of-the-coquies-still-sing-by-karina-nicole-gonzalez-illustrations-by-krystal-quiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41738","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Coqu\u00edes Still Sing, by Karina Nicole Gonz\u00e1lez, illustrations by Krystal Quiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Coqu\u00edes Still Sing<\/p>\n

A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding<\/em><\/p>\n

story by Karina Nicole Gonz\u00e1lez
\nillustrations by Krystal Quiles<\/p>\n

Roaring Brook Press, 2022. 40 pages.
\nReview written August 30, 2022, from a library book
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

This bright and beautiful picture book tells the story of a girl named Elena and her family who live in Puerto Rico. As the book opens, the girl is enjoying the mango tree outside their house, heavy with sweet fruit.<\/p>\n

At night the coqu\u00ed frogs in the tree and in the garden sing, “Co-qu\u00ed, co-qu\u00ed,” and Elena and her Papi sing back, “Co-qu\u00ed, co-qu\u00ed. Oh, how I love thee.”<\/p>\n

But that night, the radio talks about a storm. Hurricane Maria is coming. The family shelters safe together in a closet, but the roof gets blown off their house. When they come out again, the mango tree has no fruit or leaves, and the coqu\u00ed frogs are silent.<\/p>\n

But this is a book about resilience and recovery. The community works hard and comes together, plants a garden, and makes repairs.<\/p>\n

And to finish the story, some months later, the mango tree sprouts new leaves, and the coqu\u00ed frogs sing again.<\/p>\n

Six pages of back matter give details about Puerto Rico and the impact of Hurricane Mar\u00eda, as well as work that still needs to be done.<\/p>\n

Overall, this is a book of hope, created with a deep love for Puerto Rico that shines through.<\/p>\n

karinanikole.com<\/a>
\nkrystalquiles.com<\/a>
\nmackids.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coqu\u00edes Still Sing A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding story by Karina Nicole Gonz\u00e1lez illustrations by Krystal Quiles Roaring Brook Press, 2022. 40 pages. Review written August 30, 2022, from a library book Starred Review This bright and beautiful picture book tells the story of a girl named Elena and her family who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-picture-book-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44155,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41738\/revisions\/44155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}