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The Picture Book Dictionary/English-Spanish Edition

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As a linguistic professor I go over numerous publications all the time. This dictionary is just GREAT for children (5 to 9, even 3 to 9 years old) and I would consider it as a #1 pick for young language learners. It really makes language studies effective and fun at the same time. My 2 grandchildren find this book very helpful in their Spanish studies and they adore the illustrations. It also helped tremendously to improve their English spelling skills. This Picture Book Dictionary by Valerie Laud features simple key phrases for children's basic conversations in English and Spanish languages; marvelous illustrations help to learn and remember the phrases. Children have incredible visual memory.
I have also introduced this edition to the ESL adult students and they were extremely pleased with it. This Dictionary by Valerie Laud I find to be a great source for studies of both English and Spanish languages.
For adult's (English-Spanish) language studies my best pick will be The New Oxford Picture Book Dictionary (English/Spanish) by E.C. Parnwell.

An English/Spanish bilingual reference deftly organized by Valerie Laud and brightly illustrated Valentine Latushkin , The Picture Book Dictionary presents 3,000 words commonly found in children's picturebook stories. Each word is used in a sentence (in both English and Spanish) and demonstrated with a simple, friendly color illustration. For example, the entry for hot/caliente reads "The pie is still very hot"/"El pastel todavia esta muy caliente" and has a picture of a hot pie held in a woman's oven mitts. Especially recommended for bilingual families, The Picture Book Dictionary offers an easy-to-use introduction and beginning self-start education for bright youngsters.

Two of my children who recently started studying Spanish, fell in love with this Picture Book Dictionary. Unlike some of the other rather dull children dictionaries, this book retains my kid's attention for long periods of time! They like its clear, concise phrases, supported by interesting and engaging illustrations. Examples, given in this book, are very user-friendly, so learning Spanish becomes interesting and fun. I am sure that parents who want their children to make rapid progress in studying Spanish, would be as happy with Valerie Laud's Picture Book Dictionary, as we are. Thank you, Valerie!

As I Spanish native speaker, I must say that it is hard to find good bilingual books for my child. This book has a lot of vocabulary and the Spanish translation was well done. My child loves the pictures (although, many of them are very similar) and it is an easy read. I highly recommend it.