Customer Reviews

The Moon is La Luna: Silly Rhymes in English and Spanish

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Cute, goofy, bilingual rhymes that introduce Spanish vocabulary through kooky jokes... I like that each poem is in both Spanish and English, and that the definitions are reinforced through humor -- one of the stronger ways to learn -- and that each language is used to explore the other, back and forth, back and forth... The rhymes can be a little hard to wrap your tongue around, but there's wit and whimsy and it doesn't talk down to the readers... A nice addition to any bilingual library! (ReadThatAgain!)

This a geat book to start the wee ones on a road to a second language --- the text is simple and interesting

and the illustrations are outstanding---a must for preschoolers and up----- sam

This book was a really good way to start teaching my daughter (age 2) a second language. She likes the rhymes and enjoys the pictures.

Silly rhymes (Jay Harris) and silly pictures (Matt Cordell) make up this adorable book. Harris introduces or reinforces Spanish vocabulary with poems that are "Shel Silverstein" fun. For example,

Un arbol is a tree.

Una roca is a rock.

I'd rather have una roca

Than un arbol in my sock.

Lots of giggles are sure to follow!

I really wanted to like this book. A classroom magazine had suggested it and I bought it online. A lot of the rhymes do not make sense and do not rhyme if you have an authentic accent. Flor does NOT sound like floor, etc. My students really did not like the book and I don't plan on using it anytime again.