Customer Reviews

Los contrarios / Opposites

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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.

Bought this book for my daughter, age 2, but I used it for my own beginning French class. The professor said that she wished these books had been around when her children were little.

Being an English family living in Venezuela and having a child in pre-school this book and the rest of the series really helped him with the language barriers. Easy to read for me and him!

This is a straight-forward vocabulary book of opposite words (big/little, noisy/quiet) in English and Spanish. The Spanish words are accompanied by phonetic pronunciations in English. Male and female conjugations are provided for the Spanish adjectives. The whimsical bear drawings on each page do a good job of illustrating the concepts being taught.

As a fourth-year Spanish student, I couldn't resist taking a look at this book. I opened it up and immediately wished I had books like these when I was younger. On opposing pages are opposites or "los contrarios". The illustrations show colorful and cute bears that represent a word. At the top of the page is the word in english, and at the bottom the word in Spanish. Also at the bottom is a pronunciation of the word, in easy and understandable terms that a child can comprehend. In the back of the book is a list of the all the words with their pronunciation. This is definetly an effective and cute bilingual book I sure wish I had as a kid.