CI book reviews LA CIUDAD DE LOS MUERTOS 5 Jan 20205 Jan 2020 A story with an underground plot As only great storytellers can do it, Sonya Chapman-Morley is able to interwave stories while maintaining the reader's interest. In La Ciudad de los…
CI book reviews MECHE 1 Jan 20205 Jan 2020 When home transcends borders Mike Peto's Meche, it's not just another story. Meche is a beautiful metaphor of 31 chapters in which Peto familiarizes us with the life of a…
CI book reviews LA HIJA DEL SASTRE 27 Dec 20191 Jan 2020 A CI classic that carves new words in the students´minds It was almost seven years ago that for the first time I read La Hija del Sastre by Carrie Toth…
CI book reviews RIGO, PEDALING FOR LIFE 22 Dec 20191 Jan 2020 Rigoberto Urán, a famous Colombian cyclist and better known as Rigo, is the protagonist of this new story written by the prolific author Adriana Ramírez. In this novel Ramírez presents…
CI book reviews BRINGING A LITTLE BIT OF ACTION TO CI 15 Dec 2019 The great boom that the Free Voluntary Reading (FVR) is cureently having in world language classes has allowed us to know much better the reading tastes of our students. In…
CI book reviews SOCCER AND CULTURE MERGING THROUGH A BEAUTIFUL STORY 8 Dec 20198 Dec 2019 Second language teachers sometimes complicate themselves with the topic of culture. We subject our students to heavy lessons where they must investigate historical, social and economic aspects of the regions…
CI book reviews ¡PAPACITO! THE BOOK ALL SPANISH 1 AND 2 STUDENTS WANT TO READ. 27 Nov 201927 Nov 2019 Although Craig Klein Dexemple is a super creative author, I had always wondered why his book ¡Papacito!, has been a book with such success and acceptance among students and teachers.…
CI book reviews EL ÚLTIMO VIAJE 13 Nov 201930 Nov 2019 The topic of drug trafficking is complex and difficult, especially when you are like me, from Colombia. I remember getting very upset, offended and defensive when during my first years…
