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Reviewed By:
Kathy Peppin, Early On Service Coordinator, Ottawa Area
Intermediate School District
Review Date: May 27, 2005
 Authors:
Pam Schiller, Rafael Lara-Alecio, and Beverly J. Irby
ISBN: 0-87659-284-1
Price: $29.95
Description: With Spanish and English on each page, this collection
of over 450 rhymes, songs, stories, and fingerplays provides the
opportunity for building vocabulary and exploring the sounds of
language-important skills for beginning readers! Organized by theme for
easy use, these selections provide a springboard for teaching a second
language and for working in a bilingual classroom. (384
pages; 2004)
Kathy's
Review: This book has already been put into action by our bilingual
crew. My bilingual co worker summed this book up by saying "an ambitious
endeavor, indeed!" This book has been a wonderful resource to our program,
which recently began offering bilingual story times/playgroups. It is
stuffed with over 450 Spanish and English selections. They are broken down
by very familiar preschool themes and then further by type---rhymes,
songs, stories and finger plays. Although some of the rhythm and rhyme is
lost in translation from English to Spanish (as the phonological rules of
English do not carry over into Spanish language), it is wonderful for our
ESL learners to see the comparisons between the two languages side by
side----and be able to share that with their children! I especially like
the selections that begin in Spanish and are reversely translated to
English. So often you do not see this in books---only English to Spanish.
Thank you for such an assortment of bilingual fun!
For More Information: You can find out more about this book and
other Gryphon House publications at
http://www.ghbooks.com or call 1-800-638-0928.
Order this book at
http://www.ghbooks.com/showbook.cfm?code=12874.
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