My Clothes/ Mi Ropa [Board book]

Rebecca Emberley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2002 | Grade Level: P and up

Socks, shoes, pants, shirts--all types of clothes appear in bright, bold pictures in this Spanish/English board book that helps the youngest of readers learn simple words in another language. Full-color illustrations. 10 spreads.

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.
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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: 0316174548
• ISBN-13: 978-0316174541
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #47 in Books > Children's Books > Arts, Crafts & Music > Art > Fashion

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

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great series for early language acquisition, March 11, 2003

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Gilda Sebenick "gildase" (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Clothes/ Mi Ropa (Board book)

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.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fewer mistakes, but several corrections needed, February 10, 2006

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W. Savarese (Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Clothes/ Mi Ropa (Board book)

Another reviewer had commented on a myriad of errors in this series of board books. He did not comment on this one specifically, so I purchased it. There are several errors, which can be considered minor compared to all the errors in the "My toys, Mis jugetes" board book. Again, there seems to be a lack of quality control in checking the correctness of the Spanish words before going to print, hence my rating.

For those people who would like to teach their children correct Spanish, here are the corrections.

Front Cover & Spine: In Spanish only the first word is capitalized in a title. Therefore, the correct title for the Spanish portion is "Mi ropa". It is possible this is changing in practice because of the influence of English, but the Spanish Royal Academy guide on grammar and spelling still lists this as the rule.

Inside: Pants is "los pantalones", not "los pantal?nes". Socks is "los calcetines", not "los calcet?nes". There is no accent on either word. At least these are two corrections that only need white-out. *See the end for explanation on accentuation rules.*

Back Cover: "Colectar" in Spanish is used for the collection of money or debts. To collect, as in amass in a collection, is "coleccionar". The phrase, correcting the verb and the preposition, should be "?Coleccione todos los libros de la serie!"

Not a correction per se:

Las pyjamas: When I saw this spelling I scratched my head since I was only familiar with "las pijamas". After searching, I discovered that this is a tough word because the word in Spanish derives from the word in English. Thus, it can take various forms, either faithful to the English pronunciation with changed spelling, or faithful to the English spelling with Spanish pronunciation. If you don't want to use the Spanish phrase "la ropa de dormir" and want to use the word that comes from the English, all of the following are OK:

"las pyjamas" (derived from the British English spelling)

"las pijamas"

"las piyamas"

"las payamas" (derived from the American English spelling)

If you are a Spanish speaker, use the version you are familiar with. Or else using the spelling in this book is OK.

* Note 1: The word "pantal?n" takes an accent because it follows the rule for a word that is "aguda", having the stress on the last syllable. The "aguda" rule is that the word is accentuated on the last syllable, which is stressed, if it ends in a vowel, an s, or an n. But when an "es" is added to make the word plural ("los pantalones"), a syllable is added and the word becomes "llana" or "grave". The "llana" rule for words that have the stress on the next to last syllable is that the stressed syllable is accentuated if the word ends in a consonant other than n or s. The word "pantalones" has the stress on the next to last syllable and it ends in s. Therefore, it doesn't get an accent. The same explanation is the reason why "los calcetines" also doesn't have an accent either.

* Note 2: The Spanish Royal Academy lists "el pijama" in the singular as the proper form, though probably no one outside of Spain uses it that way.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great teaching resource!, August 29, 2005

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Senora Gose (Bryan, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Clothes/ Mi Ropa (Board book)

This is a nice sturdy book that my boys go back to right after we get dressed in the morning and repeat the words in Spanish and English (They are 2 and 3 1/2 years.)

It also is a great review and supplement to the Lessons on clothing in their Flip Flop Spanish Workbooks - they look at the pictures in this sweet little book when we listen to the Spanish CD that comes with the workbook.