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My First Spanish ABC Picture Coloring Book (Dover Children's Bilingual Coloring Book)

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My First Spanish ABC Picture Coloring Book was somewhat disappointing. The book fits 12 pictures (including a picture of each letter of the alphabet) on each of the 21 coloring pages. Each picture has a Spanish word below. There could be some confusion as to what the Spanish word pertains to unless you look at the word list at the end of the book.

For example on page 18, there is a picture of a smiling girl with glasses and the word "sonriendo". It's not apparent right away that the word means smiling. I believe that it would have been easier to understand if there was a small arrow pointing to her smile. There are several examples like this, but other pictures such as window and trumpet are easily understood.

For those parents sensitive to showing pictures of mythical or pagan creatures to their children, you might not want to buy this book. It shows pictures of a witch, a ghost, and a unicorn. Otherwise, this book teaches the Spanish words for animals, objects in the house, clothing, occupations, and other things.

On a scale of 1 to ten, I give this book a 6.5 for hard to color, small pictures with small details, and including some hard to follow illustrations that leave you searching the word list to find out what the Spanish word means.