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I can’t believe I had never seen El Perro y El Gato, the original animated specials shown on HBO Family and HBO Latino, before now (I somehow missed this Video of the Week right here!). Ever since these DVDs arrived in the mail, my son has been watching them on repeat. The catchy music, cute animation, and hilarious scenes make these appealing to bilingual and monolingual kids alike. What the little ones don’t know is that they are improving their languageRead More ...

  We are happy to share with you Scholastic’s Storybook Treasures new “Language Learning Collection” which features Curious George, or Jorge el Curioso. This three DVD read-along set contains 18 illustrated, award-winning stories which are narrated in Spanish and English. The collection features the story “Jorge, el monito ciclista,” and includes other stories such as “Harry el Perrito Sucio,” “Chato y Su Cena,” and many more. The collection also features celebrity narrations by Cheech Marin, Luis Guzman, and others. We’reRead More ...

  Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: time to send your kids back to school – or to school for the first time. To prepare them for those early mornings and long days, I’ve come up with a list of titles about the classroom that young children will love. I’ve also included a Spanish thesaurus and preschool math book so that you can keep up with Spanish skills at home, whether or not your kids are gettingRead More ...

Get ready to dance along to Mr. G’s new album: Bugs. Mr. G is Ben Gundersheimer, an acclaimed singer, songwriter, and producer who spent 20 years as a rock frontman and solo artist, and also has a masters degree in elementary education. Now he has transitioned into family music, and his new album is really just that, music that the whole family will surely enjoy. With musical styles that range from bluegrass, bossa nova, and  folk to ska and rock, thereRead More ...

Last weekend I had the pleasure to watch Disney’s Mars Needs Moms with my children and their cousins. In the movie, nine-year-old Milo discovers just how important his mom is to him when she is kidnapped by Martians who plan to rob her of her maternal attributes in order to nurture their own young. In his quest to save his mom, Milo realizes just how much he loves and needs his mom. This movie uses motion-capture animation which added visualRead More ...

As many of you know, my 5-year-old daughter, Vanessa, started Kindergarten last Monday. This was a momentous milestone for everyone in our family and so my husband and I walked our firstborn the two blocks from our home to the school armed with cameras, videocameras and iPhones to capture it all. Growing up, I went mostly to private schools which meant that my back to school photos were of me in my school uniform. In other words, pretty boring. ItRead More ...

Birthdays are special occasions for people around the world, but for Latinos, each birthday is a passage into a new life stage. Whether you celebrate with a piñata, unique recordatorios, or a huge quinceañera bash, sharing your birthday with loved ones is a cultural necessity. Introduce your little lectores to the excitement of a cumpleaños by sharing some of these fun and informative books with them, or reminisce about your own lifetime of birthdays with the title I recommend forRead More ...

To continue our Bicultural Birthdays Celebration week we have more awesome prizes to give away.  (More huge giveaways happening here and here.) Our friends at Fisher Price are really in the mood to celebrate by the looks of this huge prize pack they´ve put together for ONE of you to take. The Fisher Price Bicultural Birthdays Celebration prize includes four different toys with a total retail value of $235. These toys would make great presents for your little ones onRead More ...