Iconic British illustrator, Quentin Blake, just published a new Spanish/English bilingual book that is adorable for its simplicity: Ten Frogs/Diez Ranas.
It is simply a book about counting in English and Spanish with his beautiful illustrations of animals.
The book is completely unpretentious and reads like a piece of art. I recommend it for parents with babies who can sit in front of the book and just be mesmerized by the animal illustrations; for bilingual toddlers who are learning to count; as well as for budding readers who can practice their reading in both languages with short sentences, numbers and good visuals to support them.
It´s also great for those non-native speakers who might want to learn how some of these animals are called in either language:
- Crow/Cuervo
- Goats/Cabras
- Fish/Peces
- Chickens/Gallinas
- Mice/Ratones
- Frogs/Ranas
- Sparrows/Gorriones
- Wasps/Avispas
The Giveaway
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner: Diane!
Here´s your chance to win a copy of Quentin Blake´s Ten Frogs/Diez Ranas: A Book About Couting in English and Spanish. All you have to do is leave a comment telling us why you want this book.
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My daughter is starting DL kinder in the fall, and I need to learn Spanish too!!
I’m introducing my kids to some Spanish and I absolutely LOVE the author-illustrator!
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We just recently adopted our two and a half year old daughter from Colombia, so at the same time that we are trying to help her learn English, we are learning more and more Spanish. I’ve been studying it for a year, but my husband hasn’t been able to. Bilingual books are very helpful and important in our family! This would be a great addition to our small but growing collection!
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I want this book because I am trying to make sure I raise my daughters bilingual, and I see this as a HUGE resource to doing so.
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I work with bilingual students. I can really use this book.
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I want my baby to speak Spanish.
My 3yr old and 20 month old love bilingual books. Ten Frogs/Diez ranas would be a great addition to there library; a book that encompasses there love for animals and learning to count.
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I would like this book because it would be a great resource tool to sit with my children and read together and learn together.
I want this book to add to our home library as we hardly have any Spanish books for the kids. We sign them out of the public library. I don;t think we read to them enough in Spanish (plenty of English reading though) so any book, especially cute ones, would help. It seems harder to entice her to choose a book in French and Spanish.
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My two year old just started counting and would love this book.
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I need this book because until just now I never knew how to say sparrows in spanish!
Gorriones!!!
Now I can tell the kids how!!! ( :
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I would like my son to learn how to speak Spanish. I never liked it in High School, but if he gets a early start, it might be easier
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It looks so cute! I am always looking for books in Spanish for my youngest who just turned 2! Thanks!
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I would love this for my sister’s classroom who has students that are billingual.
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We live in Florida, so I think it’s really important that we know Spanish.
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For my nephew Sebastian!
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My son would love to read this. He’s learning Spanish.
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We’d love this book! My daughter is 3, and was born in Guatemala, so we’re working on Spanish for the whole family.
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Ooh, I would love to win this for my niece! I follow you in Google Reader and I Tweeted here: http://twitter.com/LadyCrow/status/16160966590
i woud like to win .reason i would like my grandaughter to be able to speek both english and spanish
I would like to win this book because I want my son to have some books to teach him to count in Spanish. He’s learning to count in English so it would be great to teach him the Spanish numbers as well.
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I love bilingual books and the illustrations look cute!
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My daughter tries but this would be so helpful.
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Why do I want this book? Well, before my first daughter was born, I decided I’d raise her bilingual. But I chickened out, worrying that I might teach her incorrectly since spanish is a second language for me. I want this book to give me motivation to teach my now 3 1/2 year old spanish.
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This looks way cuter than the books I keep checking out from the library. We need some variation.
But I’d love to see Celeste (above) win it. Celeste– Glad you checked out Spanglishbaby. I love it!
We are a little family of foreigners living in Australia. Our two-year old son (El Rubio) is the only real Aussie amongst us. I’m English and my partner is Argentinian. My partner only speaks to ER in Spanish but I worry it’s not enough. I’m very happy to find this website.
This book looks perfect not least because we are just starting numbers counting the stairs every time we go up and down in our house. Me in English and Alexis in Spanish.
Not to mention the fact that I grew up on Roald Dahl and these are the illustrations of my childhood. I would be so happy to own it for ER.
Oh just noticed this competition is closed! Well I have subscribed anyway!