Before I share about the creative people and organizations that put these wonderful little bilingual books together I must say that my two-and-a-half bilingual baby girl approves! They are perfect for my vibrant explorer who is busy putting all the words she knows in Spanish (with some English) together because the illustrations are not only unique, but strategically placed to provoke conversation. For instance, in the Colores Everywhere! book the colors white and black are on side-by-side pages. On the left page there is a big white, three tiered cake and on the left there is a black dog. The text next to the cake reads, Te gusta comer pastel?/Do you like to eat cake? and on the right it reads, Claro que si/ Oh, yes, I sure do! My nena looks for those two pages and replies to the dog, “No perro es mi pastel!/No, dog, that is my cake!”
Now, the reasons why I, a bilingual mother raising a bilingual baby, love the books. First and foremost, I love the way the code-switched titles reflect our local central Texas linguistically diverse community. Here, in central Texas, we speak in English and Spanish (sometimes within a single utterance) just like the titles of the books! Secondly, I appreciate the effort the San Antonio Museum of Art and the San Antonio Public Library Foundation have put in creating books that promote art and bilingual literacy through reading! As an avid art lover I also think the illustrator, Madeleine Budnick, did a wonderful job displaying the museums art pieces in three little books designed with children (like toddlers) in mind. As a mommy who is always on the look out for bilingual books for my nena, I like to think I have developed a keen eye in identifying quality bilingual books and I whole-heartedly think these books fall under that category.
These books have inspired me to head on south (an hour from my home) and visit the San Antonio Museum of Art with my little girl with our library tote bag carrying our bilingual books. The plan is to try and locate the artwork in the book while visiting the museum. Though she is only two-and-a-half I think she will enjoy identifying the artifacts at the museum as she already does this with icons she has seen from other books, like with certain animals, colors, and shapes.
I hope you enjoy learning about shapes, numbers, and/or colors in Spanish and English with your sprouting little ones. Suerte!
The Giveaway
One Lucky winner will receive ONE 3-book series (pictured above). Just visit the Arte Kids website and leave us a comment telling us which of the three books you think your child would like best, then enter the Rafflecopter below.
I am due with my little boy in March, and I would love to read him the “Colores Everywhere!” book.
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Colores Everywhere!: Colors in English y Español. All three seem great. I am a subscriber.
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All three of these books look great! Since we have some other bilingual books on colors and numbers, I’d especially like to be able to share Hello, Circulos! with my daughter.
What great books. I have such a hard time finding Spanish language books for my 3 yr old grandchild. Part of the problem is that I don’t have much Spansih so cant really search in Spanish or understand well enough to order.
She knows her Spanish numbers and colors pretty well so she would have fun “helping” me read those two books and the shapes one would be fabulous for her to learn.
My son would like colores everywhere the best I think! He loves colors!
My daughter would love all of them, but the most challenging would be the shapes. We haven’t worked much on the Spanish shapes.
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Colores everywhere! would be a great book for my class to learn their colores en español. We teach them a lot of things and being able to name the colors around us in another language is something they can practice while we’d read the book in class or when they are with their families.
The colores book is the cutest! Munchkins favorite
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Los circulos pq a mi nino le gusta mucho las caras!
My daughter would love the colores book.
Diego, my two-year-old, would LOVE Colores Everywhere! the best. He’s all about listening as I describe each and every picture in great detail, down to the color, when I read to him picture books. When we’re done, he takes the same book and “reads” to me as he points to each picture. He will love all the illustrations and their colors. Looking forward to reading these books with my bodoquito.
My son would love the book colores everywhere. He loves colors and liked the tractor on the front!
My son would love Colores everywhere. He’s just now learning names for colors!
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Me encantan todos! My girl would love them all too. But if I had to choose one for her, it would be Hello Circulos! She is learning to identify shapes in every day things, so this book would be wonderful for her!
Colores Everywhere! is very cute!
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I think my daughter would love Hello Circulos, because she loves making shapes with her hands.
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They all look great…I guess I’d start with- 1, 2, 3, Sí!: A Numbers Book in English and Spanish!
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Me encantaria tener cualquiera de los tres libros! Se ven super lindos!
My daughter would like “Colores Everywhere”
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My kids would love all of them!
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My boy will love” Hello, Circulos” my girl will love Colores everywere… I WILL LOVE ALL OF THEM. Thanks for sharing this books. If I am not winning the giveaway, I will buy those!!!
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We would enjoy all of them because all three are birght and colorful. Colores will probably make a bigger impact since my daughter loves colorful pictures. Thanks!
She would love circulos for the great cover picture
Cant wait to work with my son Roarke on these love the vibrant colors!
I would love Hello, Circulos! It looks amazing! My in-laws are from San Antonio and I’m dying to visit the museum!!!!!!
Colores Everywhere I think would be the favorite but they all look great!
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Hello, Círculos! as we are learning to identify all types of shapes right now. Our favorite is triangulo.
I would donate these to my son’s DL kinder class. I think they would love all of them!
I like 1 2 3
Our favorite is Colores Everywhere!
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Me gustaria leer Colores Everywhere con mi hijo! Gracias.
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My daughter would love 123 Si!
My daughter would love Colores Everywhere!
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My son would like the numbers one most because he loves counting.
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