Julia Aprende Ingles (Language Learner Series)

by Sue Finnie, Daniele Bourdais

Spanish-speaking boys and girls in early grades receive a fun-filled, informal introduction to English in this picture book, supplemented with an interactive CD–ROM. The little girl in this story visits the United States, and vivid full-page illustrations show scenes of her arrival at the airport, being driven to the home where she will stay as a guest, enjoying lunch in the kitchen, then playing at a beach, visiting a farm, exploring a town and its shops, going to a party, and finally returning to the airport for her flight home. All illustrations are filled with objects that kids will immediately recognize, each object labeled to identify it in English. Each two-page spread also features a lift-the-flap phrasebook, in which the words are spelled out phonetically. The accompanying CD–ROM is filled with spoken examples of English to familiarize Spanish-speaking kids with its sound, plus fun-to-play language-learning games. (Ages 7–10)

28 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2003

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

A story runs through this book that uses occasional English phrases. The illustrations show many things (lots of nouns)and have a tiny book to open on each double-spread with tiny script vocabulary lists. I think this book would be better for older than preschool kids, who could also use the CD that comes inside the book. AS a read out loud, it didn’t work well with a four-year-old. (It was more of a point to a picture and say the English name, and there are only so many new words a child can grasp in one sitting.)