Customer Reviews

Fruits and Vegetables / Frutas y vegetales (English and Spanish Foundations Series) (Book #10) (Bilingual) (Board Book) (English and Spanish Edition)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The thing that I really like about this book was that all the sentences weren't the same. It did not just say "these are bananas, these are tomatoes" all the time, but integrated questions, and even characteristics of the fruits and vegetables. The pictures are bright and colorful, and made me want to go buy a piece of fruit right then. I would highly recommend this book as a useful and practical tool for learning the names of basic fruits and vegetables in both English and Spanish. It is very likely that you will find yourself practicing these words at home when you are eating a piece of watermelon, or chopping a pepper for dinner.

Niece was 3 when I gave this to her. She was in a spanish immersion program. This book was perfect for her.
She is now 4 years old, and can read it on her own.

This book has beautiful, realistic illustrations. The little children I showed it to wanted to match them to real fruits and vegetables and/or pretended to take a bite right off the page! I thought the bilingual text would be more helpful; the English (which is my native language) was pretty unimaginative; the Spanish did not use the common words for the foods in a few instances (e.g. maize was used for corn in Spanish, but the picture showed corn on the cob, which is called elota (sp?) by the Mexican families I know).

This is much smaller than I expected and basically looks like a baby's board book. The drawings are good and I like the phrases they used (rather than just giving vocabulary with no clue how to use it in various sentences). This is a fine book, but for the price I thought I was getting something bigger. The book measures 4 inches by 6 inches. Quite small. I'm not sure why they used board book pages when this is obviously not for a baby. The content is for a pre-schooler.

This book series is great for all new beginners. I appreciate the Spanish and English. Cute graphic design.