Fiesta! Board Book: Bilingual Spanish-English (Spanish Edition)

Product Description

Horns, airplanes, and tops. Whistles, gum, and rings.
What should the children choose?
And what will they do with all the things they buy?
Open this book to find out and to count with them — in English and in Spanish. It’s easy!

Trompetas, aviones y trompos. Silbatos, chicles y anillos.
¿Qué deben escoger los niños?
¿Y qué harán con todas las cosas que compran?
Abra este libro para averiguarlo, y para contar con ellos — en inglés y en espanol. Es fácil.

From Booklist

PreS-K. This brightly illustrated board book features the numbers from one to ten in Spanish and English as well as the preparations for a fiesta, in this case a children’s party. In the morning, three children set out with ”
Una canasta / One basket” to visit the local market, where they purchase ”
Dos trompetas / Two horns,” and so on up to
“Nueve dulces / Nine candies” and ”
Diez serpentines / Ten streamers.” They use the colored streamers to decorate a pinata, filled with the other nine items. More children arrive and take turns whacking the pinata until it cracks open, the climax of the party. The warm hues, rounded forms, and naive look of the illustrations give this little book great visual appeal, while the details in the market scenes and the activities centered around the party will particularly appeal to young children. The short, dual-language text makes it easy to pick up a few Spanish (or English) words. Fun as well as useful for dual immersion classrooms, and great to read aloud before breaking out the pinata.
Carolyn Phelan

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About the Author

Ginger Foglesong Guy lives in Seattle, Washington. She grew up in Mexico, Arizona, Switzerland, and Costa Rica. She is also the author of the bilingual books ¡Fiesta! and Siesta.

Ginger Foglesong Guy es la autora de numerosos libros bilingües, entre ellos, los favoritos ¡Fiesta! and ¡Siesta!, así como el compañero de este libro, My School/Mi Escuela, también ilustrado por Viví Escrivá. Ginger creció en México, Arizona, Suiza, y Costa Rica. Ahora vive en el estado de Washington.

René King Moreno grew up in Warsaw, Indiana, and now lives in Chicago with her family. She is the illustrator of Under the Lemon Moon, by Edith Hope Fine, as well as ¡Fiesta! and Siesta.