Customer Reviews

What Color Is It? / Que color es este? (Good Beginnings) (Spanish Edition)

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Great book, my toddler loves it. And there are no mistakes.

For clarification: the color orange is "naranja" in Spanish from Spain. We call the fruit and the color the same in Spain (just as they do in English!). I know in Latin American countries they say "anaranjado". But that does not make "naranja" a mistake in the book. It is correct Spanish, found in the dictionary.It was just probably translated by a Spaniard.

I was shocked by the review by a teacher saying that she tells her students that the word "naranja" is wrong. I would never tell my toddler that "anaranjado" is incorrect, even though we don't say it that way! It's just a proof of the diversity of the Spanish language. Shame on this teacher who says she uses "naranja" as an example of bad translation - and complains of seeing the mistake frequently. No wonder, since it is not a mistake. She should instead explain how different Spanish-speaking countries use different words, and all are correct.

I am Peruvian so I speak Spanish. I will tell you that "naranja" and "anaranjado" are both correct adjectives to describe the color orange. In Peru we use both.

My 16 month old LOVES this book. She has been bringing it to me for months asking me to read it 'with' her. she points at all the different things on each page and I tell her what it is and what colour it is. ex "that's a green grasshopper" or "he's painting the fence purple". It's a very colourful book for us to share together. And as a bonus we get to learn spanish colours too!

I bought this book to give to my niece, her mother was a Spanish teacher. It is a cute book with cute pictures. The only words inside are the color words in Spanish and English. Very basic.

Me encanta este libro. Mi hija de apenas 10 semanas se lo disfruta muchisimo. Las imagenes y las diferentes tonalidades de colores en cada pagina son perfectos para el aprendizaje por asociacion ya que te da la oportunidad de poderles inventar historias. Ademas es buenisimo para los pequeñitos pq pueden ejercitar los musculos de la vista, ademas que es una manera muy bonita de comenzar a introducirle los colores y de una vez ampliar su vocabulario de manera bilingüe.

Please, no flames from my European friends, but if you're parenting a bilingual kid in the U.S., and are looking to support your kid speaking the more common Spanish used in the U.S. (meaning, that language spoken in LatinoAmerica...you know...Mexico, Central and Most of South America and the Caribbean), this isn't the book to get. It's cute, but it uses words for colors that you'll only see in Spain. Nothing wrong with Spain (other than that pesky Conquest that messed up a lot of lives, which many in modern-day nations are still aware of and not that happy about), but I'd skip this book if I had it to do over again. We live in Brooklyn, not Madrid.

I actually re-cycled this book by making my own collages (with Mod Podge and paper) and printing the LatinoAmerican Spanish words on the pages so the book wouldn't be a total waste and irritate me EVERY time I saw it. It was a fun project, but I'm a busy working mom, and I didn't expect what I got. I'd have liked an accurate description of the fact that it uses Castillian, and I think ALL Spanish books sold in the U.S. should clearly state which kind of Spanish it supports.

Great book for my baby trying to teach Spanish And I am not a native Spanish speaker but books like these work wonders.

I'm Mexican, we use the word "naranja" in Mexico to say orange. Anaranjado is also correct, but we never use it.

Each page has the color in English and Spanish, with no other words, so there is no plot, no rhymes. There are better books to teach colors.

Sorry, but I couldn't find anything wrong in the book with the Spanish name for the color orange, which is naranja.
Small book, good size for little hands, pleasant to read, with bright color illustrations.