Customer Reviews

My First French Word Book (My First series)

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My 18 month old son loves paging through this book and pointing to the eye-catching photos as we pronounce the words in French and English. My husband is advancing his study of French and has found this to be a wonderful book to share his love of the language with our son.

The photos are crisp and engaging, and span a wide variety of topics. I have also given the Spanish version of this book to a friend's two year old, who loves to read it with his babysitter daily. I find that it not only allows my child to hear another language, it simply provides for object identification that I might not have been as clear about without the visual aids. It's just a joy to read this with my child.

This is a terrific toddler French word book. We have the "My First Word Book" which is a nice compliment to the French version. My daughter (2 1/2) really enjoys the colorful pictures and likes to practice in both French and English. It's also a great learning tool for us! My only wish.. that the book was more portable for carrying in a purse or daybag for travel like many of the other "First" books. We all love the "My First..." series by DK Publishing.

The reviewer with the Spanish model has a binding mistake, and should have taken it up with the editor, not on the Amazon review board.

The entirely French version is awesome. The word-to-picture association is clear, the pictures are highly representational and their choice of words is fun and engaging. My only gripe is that the book gives no pronounciational aid.

I recommend this book to any parent with a decent command of French phonetics.

My daughter and I loved sharing this book together. She already knows most of her animals in French, and now we are working on the parts of the body. Fun time for both of us.

Sitting down with a child to go through this book is a good supplement to learn French words, but it lacks a story and it is hard to keep their attention.

My children love reading this book -- I have 4 children ages 6 and under. I would recommend it -- it's a good starter of basic words for children, with colorful pictures that my children seem to love.

The layout of this book is great-the pictures come from the English language "My First ____ Board" Book series.
However, pages 36-37, 40-41, 44-45, and 48 of my book are completely in Spanish. Had I not taken both French and Spanish the difference might have escaped me. I assume that people buying this book for their children are going to notice the problem--just thought it was worth a mention. ...