My Food / Mi Comida (English and Spanish Edition) [Board book]

Rebecca Emberley (Author)

Book Description

Grade Level: P and up

The vibrant colors and large text in this enchanting collection of bilingual board books make learning easy and fun. Boldly colored construction paper cutouts on stark white backgrounds introduce the basic concepts of colors, numbers, shapes, and opposites in a way that will engage little ones again and again. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

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.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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; 1st edition (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English, Spanish
• ISBN-10: 0316177180
• ISBN-13: 978-0316177184
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #97 in Books > Children's Books > Sports & Games > Cooking

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some issues with some of the Spanish Words, July 21, 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 Food / Mi Comida (English and Spanish Edition) (Board book)

As a native Spanish speaker, it is very important for me that my son learn Spanish. My son loves all of the books in this series, but this one causes me a few problems. Part of the problem is the Spanish words used (which is an issue for my dialect). For example, "bananas" is translated as "las bananas" instead of "los platanos" and peas are translated as "las guisantes" instead of "los chicharros" and "broccolli" is "el brecol" instead of "el broculi" (sorry my keyboard is not set to do accents). The other issue is some of the foods selected. For example, "soup" is one of the foods, but it is hard to draw in a way that children really understand that is is soup. "Radish" is anothert choice, but since it is such an uncommon vegetable, I am not sure why she didn't use someting like a potato or a bell pepper, which are more common. So, I would recommend this book, but be prepared to change some of the words around using your computer, printer, and some glue.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great as a supplement or review, September 1, 2005

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Senora Gose (Bryan, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Food / Mi Comida (English and Spanish Edition) (Board book)

This brightly colored book is great to use as an addition to a Spanish curriculum like the workbook Flip Flop Spanish. The sturdy pages continue to wow my classes of ages 3 all the way to 12 years old. If you'd like to introduce your child to Spanish, I might choose an animal, colors, or shapes book before this one.

The changes in words based on region, as another reviewer stated, are hard to get around - the problems she had with the words are less common where we live - so I think it's great to know ANY word when you're trying to introduce a second language to your child. It's a big endeavor, and this book helps!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Basic, brief intro to Spanish, July 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: My Food / Mi Comida (English and Spanish Edition) (Board book)

I wanted to introduce Spanish to my infant son so I bought this and "Mi Ropa/My Clothes" by the same author. I like this one the best. Both have very simple pictures labeled with the English and Spanish word. My son is 5 months old and seems to enjoy the pictures.