Comments on: ReadMe: Cuando los grandes eran pequeños

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:46:43 +0000

As I read the article, my excitement grew as I recalled how I had read these authors’ works in college. I would love revisiting these authors through the perspective of their childhood and through the eyes of my children. How inspiring to dream and hope with my children about their futures, especially the adventures and opportunities afforded to them by becoming bilingual! As others have mentioned, any Spanish literature is a treasure to get our hands on as reading is a favorite way to spend time and develop language with my kids. It is encouraging to read the responses. It made me think that I would enjoy it if you posted the winners for 2 reasons. 1.) Because you are so generous with your giveaways I wait to purchase the items and a post would serve as a good reminder to go back to favorite items; and 2.) There is a sense of community building in reading the stories, questions and struggles of your other readers. I’d love to know who gets the books and cheer on their endeavors. ¡Muchisimas gracias para todo!

By: LaToya Greenwood

LaToya Greenwood — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:37:55 +0000

Children love to hear about other children! Being bilingual is very beneficial in so many ways. My children are able to read in both English and Spanish and I feel that these books would be very interesting for my children AND my students! I have bilingual students whose parents speak very limited English. I am so excited to receive an impressive set of books to enhance my knowledge and that of my children!

By: Olimpia

Olimpia — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:06:36 +0000

What a genius concept! Raising my children (5 and 3) I discovered that they always pay more attention when I tell them our own life and situations from stories of when I was a kid myself. They find amazing that mami was a little girl and actually the yongest sister of an inmigrant family in Venezuela.. My parents left Italy and arrived to Venezuela after the WWII. We were born there as bilingual kids. Many years later I decided to be an inmigrant too and had my kids in the US. With my husband, a journalist like me, we do our own little battles every day to raise our children bilingual and multicultural. Congratulation for this great collection!

By: Dariela

Dariela — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:10:24 +0000

Oh this looks like something I’ll enjoy sooo much reading to the kids cause I’ll be interested more myself meanwhile they wont realize that they’ll be learning very important information!!

By: rosa

rosa — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:01:57 +0000

I think that this books will help me understand how to raise a child to be bilingual. My son will turn 3 in October and its hard when most of the my husband speaks to him in English and i try to speak to him in Spanish. ..My son loves to read books n i would love to read this books with him.. thank you!!

By: Carla

Carla — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:17:45 +0000

Why are you so good to your readers? These are so wonderful. Not a day goes by that I don’t wonder if this bilingual thing is going to stick for life. I worry a lot about it but the thing that encourages me most is reading to my daughter. She has a real love for reading, books and a good story (seemingly the same thing but very different and so important for little ones). These books would be a wonderful start our homeschooling journey.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:28:55 +0000

I would love to have these books as I am passionate about my children being bilingual and yet I have a hard time finding good reading material. This would be perfect!!

By: kalen

kalen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:47:53 +0000

I would love to have these books! I fell in love with the Hispanic Culture mostly during High School when reading these very authors. I would love to start sharing them with my daughters from a young age and hope for them to fall in love with them as well.

By: Susana

Susana — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:33:31 +0000

I have 132 bilingual children! My children attend a small dual immersion charter school with limited funding and these books would absolutely fulfill our mission of biliteracy and multilcultural proficiency both for students maintaining their home language and for those students learning Spanish as a second language. I am so excited about this collection of books!!
I love all the resources and personal stories on this website and will be sharing it with our parents…keep up the great work!
Susana
Principal

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:28:34 +0000

What a great post and an awesome giveaway!

Bravo!

I woul love to win this giveaway for my daughter (6 yo). There is nothing like reading a book to your child and seeing them engaged in the story and anxious to find out whats going to happen next!

Muchas gracias por esta oportunidad.

-Rachel