Customer Reviews

My Colors/ Mis Colores (English and Spanish Edition)

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As other reviewers have noted, there are problems with this book, despite its laudable intent. In short, it is doubtful that the author speaks fluent Spanish herself, and it seems as if she simply opened a Spanish-English dictionary to create the book.

For example, for 'azul/blue' she displays a fish, which she calls a "pescado." As any second-year Spanish student can tell you, the animal is a 'pez' whereas prepared food is called 'pescado' (literally, "that which has been fished"). Also, on the back cover she writes "¡Recolecte todos los libres en la serie!" (Collect all the books in the series). The verb "recolectar" means "to gather", not "to collect" as in a collection (she needed to use "coleccionar")

As a Spanish professor, I commend her good intentions with this book, but I cannot recommend this book until the errors are corrected.

I have been using this entire series with my son since he was born, and he is now 14 months. He loves the pictures and turning the pages. The books use the format of one word per page and it gives both the English and Spanish form of the word. This is a great series for early language acquisition.

I am a bilingual Spanish/English speaker. My ethnic background is Cuban and Mexican. It is quite correct to use the article in front of the Spanish version of the word and not the English for one simple reason. English words are all gender neutral, while Spanish words all have gender, which the article helps you identify. The color spelling also changes based on gender, so you must know the gender in order to know how to say the color. For example, la manzana es roja, even though the color is rojo.

Also, cafe and marron are both correct for brown.

It is common knowledge that an article needs to be placed in front of nouns in Spanish and that this is not necessary for English nouns. It is absolutely correct that this was done in this book.

"Color café" is a term used quite often throughout Latin America, but especially in Mexico and Central America, to mean brown.

I LOVE this book. So does my 1-year old. He has self full of books and always wants this one. I think it's the colors, pictures and overall size of the book. It is important to me for him to learn some key Spanish words--that is why I got this book. Not to TEACH him the entire language.

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I've always heard of brown being called "cafe" in Spanish...

The bright simple pictures are what drew me to use this book for my toddler Spanish classes.

Yes, the "grammar" of this book is a little off (see other reviewers' comments), but the colors are all correct, and children LOVE it. This book is a great way to review Spanish colors after learning them from a workbook like Flip Flop Spanish. You could also use it to introduce the colors, and then follow up with the Lesson in the workbook, or even use the CD, and have the child turn to the correct page while listening - since the CD has both English and Spanish, this would be a great confidence builder before doing the "written" work.

All in all, definitely worth the money. All three of my children have enjoyed it, as well as the many students through my classes.

This series of books is lovely, colorful and easy to read to our baby. He loves the books -- the illustrations hold his attention. We live in a bilingual area and these will help teach him Spanish when he's older. This is the only English/Spanish board book series that I found targeting young children -- I'm so happy to have found them.

This book will help my baby learn colors and other words in both languages. I have seen a 2 year old who can already recognize the colors and objects on all the pages!

Roberta we are reviewing a children's book here, not a grammatical piece of art. By the way, I speak Spanish (native) and I don't see anything tremendously wrong with this book.

We ordered this for our church preschool library and the kids love the simple colors and pictures. The teachers love the simple translations

Cute, bought for my 18month old, my girls haven't read it all that much, they seem to prefer Boynton and Leslie Patrelli but its a good edition to the book shelf.