Customer Reviews

El Sombrero del Tio Nacho / Uncle Nacho's Hat (Reading Rainbow Book) (English and Spanish Edition)

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I am grateful that bilingual children's books are being written. Uncle Nacho's Hat introduces children to beautiful magical folklore and exposes them to talented artist, Simon Silva. I have started a small collection of books published by Children's Book Press for my nephew and son. These books are a tool for me to preserve our language and culture.

Delightful parable about change. When given a gift of a new hat, Uncle Nacho discards his old one. Everyone seeing the old onw recognizes it as Uncle Nacho's and returns it to him. The story appears in both English and delightful Spanish.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in quality latino literature. The other two books I read and highly recommend are DRUM, CHAVI, DRUM! (by Cuban author Mayra L. Dole) and TRINOS CHOICE (by chicana author Diane Bertrand).

The book I am doing is called Uncle Nacho's Hat by Harriet Rohmer. It is really funny. Hear is how it goes.

The book is about this man named Uncle Nacho. That has a cat, dog, parrot and a monkey. But he has a hat that is very old and full of holes. And one day his niece Ambrosia stopped by for a visit before she went to school. She got Uncle Nacho a new hat. But uncle nacho did not know what to do with his old one. He tried to put it in the street. He put it by the super market. But people kept on returning the old hat. So he threw it in the trash can and he went outside to show the people and everyone said he look very handsome in his new hat.

The message of this book is to buy a new hat when your old one is full of holes.
My opinion is that uncle Nacho can talk Spanish and English. So can his niece Ambrosia.

I like this book. At the end all kinds of people like uncle Nacho's new hat. I would like to recommend this book because it was funny and cool.

Of all the bi-lingual children's books I read with my son when he was small, this was our favorite, rivaled only by "El Sancocho de Sabado". We acted out the story of Uncle Nacho and his Hat in our back yard in California and on our patio in Salamanca, Spain, where my son went to public school. Reading together bi-lingually was a big part of my efforts to teach him Spanish in preparation for life in Salamanca, and it worked! He speaks Spanish now, at age 18, more gracefully than I do, and his first solo trip to Europe last summer was to Salamanca, to visit his elementary school buddies there. Thanks, Harriet Rohmer!

I am a certified Motheread Consultant and this is one of the books we use with families to increase adult literacy and reading on a regular basis. This book was dirty and falling apart.

I love this story, but this book was a hot mess! I will be returning this book and looking for another bookseller who can send me a "good" or "excellent" copy.

The delivery time was as represented. Won't be getting any other books from this bookseller.

I would give this item 1/2 star!

I have read this story numerous times to my three kids and they still love it. It's a good book.

Funny little story about an uncle trying to get rid of his old hat, easy right? Not so! Neat illustrations.

Uncle Nacho's old hat is no longer serving him very well. His neice, Ambrosia, presents him with a new hat, but ridding himself of his old hat is not so easy. The story is simple and profound at the same time. Written in both English and Spanish (the story is adapted from a Nicaraguan folktale), the book is not only very enjoyable in its own right, but contributes to the learning of a second language if you speak either Spanish or English.