My Shapes/ Mis Formas [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 School Library Journal

PreSchool-This attractive set of Spanish-English books will help to fill a gap in board-book collections. The books feature one or two words per language per page along with a cut-paper collage in bright colors. The simplified pictures with sharply contrasting colors are ideal for infant and toddler audiences. The quality of the reproductions is excellent, making the layers of different color paper visible and adding to the collages' texture and depth. Fine choices for the youngest patrons.
Denise E. Agosto, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Board book: 10 pages
• Publisher: LB Kids (September 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316233552
• ISBN-13: 978-0316233552
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Learning > Spanish

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

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Error-filled again, September 11, 2005

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Robert Harding (Mobile, Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Shapes/ Mis Formas (Board book)

Yet again Ms. Emberley has created a book out of a dictionary, and again, it has errors. For example, she calls a square a "cuadro," which is plain wrong. A "cuadro" is a painting whereas a "cuadrado" is a square.

These books are certainly pretty to look at and are geared to entertain children, but their poor, error-filled content make them a poor choice to actually teach Spanish.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but confusing pictures, November 27, 2007

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M. Castillo (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Shapes/ Mis Formas (Board book)

My 16-month old daughter loves this book, and it has been her favorite for some time. My husband and I both speak Spanish, so we are always looking for good bilingual books for her. I like this one, but the pictures can be confusing. Each page has a shape by itself and then a picture of something using that shape. For example, circle and balloon. My main problem is with the triangle. The picture is supposed to be a butterfly and the word on that page is "wing" and "ala." You really can't tell that it's a butterfly. My daughter is confused, so now she says "ala" everytime she sees a triangle, not realizing that she's saying "wing." Also, the crescent shape and the moon picture look exactly the same, so it's hard to explain to her why one is called a crescent and the other is called a moon. The author could have made the moon yellow instead of blue, especially since the moon really isn't blue. Otherwise, I like the simplicity of this book. It really holds the attention of younger children who don't want a lot of words on each page.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great find, December 6, 2002

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swm (Alpharetta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Shapes/ Mis Formas (Board book)

My son loves this book series.. He wants us to read it to him over and over. It has been a great tool to introduce him to Spanish from his 1st birthday while also exposing him to shapes, colors and numbers...