Starring Carmen!

Denise, A., & Alvarez, L. (2017). Starring Carmen! New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers. 

32 pages. age range 4-8. ISBN: 978-1419723216

This book is about a young girl named Carmen who loves the spotlight. She puts on a show every night for her family that has extravagant dance and music numbers. In every production, Carmen always has to be the center of attention but when brother joins the show, She later needs to learn how to share the spotlight. 

The colors in this book really drew me to it. I loved the colors they used and their illustrations. This would be a great book for learning life lessons but I would not recommend this book for a social studies unit. I think the only reason this would be considered a social studies book is because they are of an ethnic background. It does not focus on history or anything pertaining to social studies. This version is also supposed to be in English but they write phrases in Spanish that are not common words that English speakers would understand. This is a cute story but because of its lack of social studies topic, I would not recommend this book.

Reviewed by: Elaina Berry