Customer Reviews

Clothes / La Ropa (Bilingual First Books; Spanish Edition)

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I grew up bilingual in NYC, and with the birth of my child, I wanted a natural way to incorporate Spanish into our lives (I now live in the NW). This book is wonderful, because the bright, contrasting colors make it possible for me to read this book to my newborn, and she is interested in the colorful illustrations, as weel as what I'm saying, in either Spainsh or English,and then my anglo husband can use it as well.

This book is well-illustrated, very colorful and a good way to teach French. Be prepared though, it serves the same purpose as flashcards would with the words in each language - rather than a story.

Perhaps the visual appeal of the pictures could also help the children learn the words, but I find it tedious to "read" so as to familiarize my little one with the words. I'd use this as a supplement to using the words in other ways rather than a teaching device in itself.

I titled this review "just average" because I found this book to be very basic and not too interesting. My boys never got into the book. There is nothing special about it.