Theresa HowellA is for Airplane/A es para avion (Alphabet Books) (Multilingual Edition)

I was raised bilingual and am trying to do the same with my kids, but they predominantly speak English. I also volunteer teaching Spanish at my son's preschool. This book is an EXCELLENT introduction to the alphabet and simple words. My younger child is not yet 2 and he is just learning his letters. He LOVES this book. He's learning his alphabet in both languages at the same time, and "getting" it. My older child, who is 4, loves this book for the vocabulary. He knows his letters in both languages, but his Spanish vocab is not robust. This book helps him feel successful when he remembers a word and he's old enough now to understand the sounds letters make (in both languages) and then use that as a hint when looking at the picture under the letter and trying to remember the word in Spanish. It's a simple and fun book. We read it so much, I have it memorized. We were on a road trip a few weeks ago and I was able to keep the kids entertained, reciting the book from memory. This will be the book I use at the school to "kick off" the Spanish curriculum.

This book is exactly what I wanted. I was about to write my own because it was hard to find a book like it.The special thing about this books is that the English and Spanish word start with the same letter. Other bilingual books we have don’t do that.It was important to me because we’re learning the alphabet and I think it’s confusing to think B is for butterfly when it is also M for mariposa. I like that this book makes it easy to focus on the letter instead of building vocabulary.

Beautiful presentation, but not for kid less that 4 years, my son is almost 3, we speak Spanish and English at home, so he does, but reviewing the book with him, I noticed that t ideas to introduce the letters to the child are too advanced for his age and skills, example, It shows a page with a Palm tree as main visual image, where will your eyes will go (picture main principles for non professionals), to the tree, the you have to explain to the child that tree or arbol doesn't spell with "I", because happened that the tree is on an island (isla), so the main idea is lost, the attention of the kid at the beginning was trapped for the main picture...this happens in several pages....a cactus tree is the main figure in the letter D page...so you have to explain to the kid that the letter D is for desert, not for tree or cactus, because the cactus in on the desert, the letter N, where the main colors and picture are the eggs and the nest is the same color of the tree, "ñ" for ñame? and I'm almost sure that more than the half of the public here never have seen or eat one of those...Q for Quintuplet? and more difficult "quintillizos" in spanish, W for Washington? sorry, this is ok for kid under 4 or 3, but the book is advertised for ages 1 to 5, the book supposedly is for to practice the alphabet, it should be well made for that and it is not. Disappointed

We love reading this with our son so I can read it to him in English and my husband can then provide the Spanish translation. I think it is an awesome concept and many of the words were chosen well. I think some could be improved upon (Washington DC for "w" in both), but candidly I only know a few words in Spanish and thus don't have the vocabulary to actually come up with better alternatives. Regardless, we do like it a lot!

Great bilingual alphabet book. I particularly appreciate how every letter is the same in English and Spanish. A es para Avion. A is for airplane.

I got this book for my son who is almost 2 years old. The pictures are cute and it's a very simple book, but some of the words seem odd for a cardboard book meant for such young children. The 'Q' page features the word quintuplets. That just seems like a pointless word for my son to learn in english or spanish right now. There are a few other words that I just skip, but all-in-all the book is cute.

Great for small hands and mouths and growing brains. Loved it for my bilingual children

So they choose words that begin with the same letter in both English and Spanish. But it doesn’t work all the time like W- Washington D.C. or X- xylophone. Good book still

Nice little book. Cute pictures. Double letters that exist in the Spanish alphabet are left out, possible because words don't begin with any double letter. But the author could have shown the letter in a word. I suppose this would make it rather tricky to understand for a little child??? W = Washington DC so it has an American tilt. Some words could have been more 'toddler' level of understanding eg D = Desert/ Desierto. Maybe D is for diamante/ diamond would have been better but perhaps an American toddler is familiar with deserts??? Anyway my little 2 year old likes it so I would recommend it!

Good product

This is a very poorly written Spanish abc book, since it does not make sense and the images are complex and irrelevant to the understanding of abc concept for children/beginner learners

Afortunadamente, este libro ofrece una lista de objetos cuyo nombre (en ambos idiomas) inicia con la misma letra, lo cual permite que los niños comprendan más fácilmente las traducciones

Erstmal, fantastisch, daß es überhaupt solche zweisprachige Bücher gibt. Daß tolle an dieses Buch ist, daß die Authoren Wörter gefunden haben, die auch wircklich für beide Sprachen passen. So ist das Bild auch für beide Wörter gleich, die brauchen keine zweiten Bilder.Das Buch ist schön stabil und wird uns glaub ich einiges aushalten.