My Animals/ Mis Animales [Board book]

Rebecca Emberley (Author)

Book Description

Grade Level: P and up

Younger readers can begin to learn a new language with these brightly colored Spanish/English board books that show pictures of familiar animals. Full color. Baby/Preschool.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

English and Spanish translations of familiar words appear side-by-side in four bilingual board books by Rebecca Emberley-My Animals/Mis Animales; My Clothes/Mi Ropa; My Food/Mi Comida; and My Toys/Mis Juguetes-all illustrated with colorful fabric collage against a stark white background. Each object or concept gets its own page, but clever pairings (e.g., "car/el auto" featuring a red car and "truck/el camion" depicting a blue and yellow truck) make the most of each spread.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Rebecca Emberley is also the creator of the bilingual children's books My Day/Mi Dia, Let's Go/Vamos, My House/Mi Casa, and Taking a Walk/Caminando.

Product Details

• Board book: 10 pages
• Publisher: LB Kids (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316173436
• ISBN-13: 978-0316173438
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #270,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rebecca Emberley is the author and illustrator of numerous books for children, including a bestselling bi-lingual series. She comes from a family of artists, including her father Ed Emberley, her brother Michael Emberley, and sister in law Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick, all children's book illustrators and her daughter Adrian Emberley and husband Peter Black, both singer-songwriters. Sometimes they work on projects together. With all this creative energy surrounding her, Rebecca is kept very busy. When not creating more books for children she also does some graphic design, dabbles in everything from silk screening to music production, travels, and looks for opportunities to work with her family. She currently lives in Maine with her husband, but will soon be traveling for a while, observing, writing and looking for new and exciting ideas.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT series of books to learn words not just espanol!!, June 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: My Animals/ Mis Animales (Board book)

These are a great series of well & simply illustrated books that my son absolutely loves. He knows the spanish words before english (we are primarily english speakers) for so many things, and he learns them here first! My husband has also learned quite a few words from the series as well....

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Spanish/English Series, December 16, 2003

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"sebastes" (Vallejo, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Animals/ Mis Animales (Board book)

Raising a multilingual child is difficult particularly in our mono-lingual culture. It is all too easy to resort to the English default. As a parent I have to make an extra conscious effort to speak Spanish to my daughter and familiarize her ear with the sounds she will hopefully use one day. In this regard bi-lingual books have been essential in helping me to set aside Spanish-time. I have read this series of board books by Rebecca Emberley to my daughter since she was 3-months old and they are still among her favorites at 15 months. These books are ideal for interacting with your baby and toddler in a multilingual fashion. The illustrations are bright and colorful and the pages withstand repeated vigorous turning by little hands. Each page presents a single word in English and Spanish for added comprehension, yet ideal for short attention spans. Thank you for a wonderful series.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great review or word introduction, August 16, 2005

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Senora Gose (Bryan, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Animals/ Mis Animales (Board book)

If you know how to pronounce the Spanish words correctly, this is a great book for toddlers. I've used it with my Toddler Spanish classes, and even my 4-7 year olds as they are learning to form their own opinions and original sentences in Spanish. I love the simplistic, yet BRIGHT pictures and how wonderfully sturdy the slick pages are.

Use this along with Flip Flop Spanish workbook, and you've got a great combo!