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I highly recommend "My First Spanish Word Book". This book has GREAT pictures of everyday items each one labeled in English and Spanish. A MUST HAVE for any children (or adult) learning Spanish, or learning Spanish to English.

My nephew just loves this book! I find myself learning so much with her and it supplies plenty of laughter. This book instills plenty of confidence as the words are learned and new words are tried out. Plenty of fun.

Ann Clarke, author of People Are So Different! based on tolerance and understanding.

my son liked the book. i wish it told you how to enunciate the words.

This is just the basics. Our son loves learning Spanish. He's 3 and I want to encourage it. My old tapes are coming back to me from Jr. High and High School Spanish. I'm able to help him with simple sentences using the words from this book. He really likes the pictures. Some of the words are different than in other versions. This can be a bit confusing. Not sure which is correct all of the time, but it serves our purposes. We have two other versions of this dictionary and cross reference. My son likes it because he knows it guarantees more reading time with mom.

My native language is English, and I speak Spanish fairly well at a conversational level. I am speaking Spanish to my young son so that he will be bilingual. Much of my Spanish vocabulary is business- or government- related, so I got this book to learn words for everyday things. When chosen for that purpose, this book is wonderful. To give one example: beginning Spanish students usually learn "camisa" for shirt and "pantalones" for pants. This book has two large pages of words for specific articles of clothing (pajamas. shorts. raincoat, sweatpants, etc.) As other reviewers have mentioned, the pictures are outstanding and I'm sure my son will like looking at the pages when he's a little order.

You do need a basic grasp of Spanish, and a good Spanish-English dictionary, to use this book most effectively. It does not have a pronunciation guide, so you need to be able to pronounce the words (which isn't hard, since Spanish reads phonetically). Also, most of the words are nouns or verbs, so to really be able to practice using them you need to know how to construct a simple sentence in Spanish.

Be careful and check with a native Spanish speaker or with a dictionary if something doesn't seem right. As another reviewer has mentioned, the usage in this book seems to be South American (I would guess Mexican, but I'm not an expert.) I've found a couple typos ("el peinilla", for example, which should have been "la peinilla"). Also, it pays to check translations of unknown words in a dictionary. For example, there is a picture of a beaded bracelet with the English word "beads" and the Spanish word "pulsera". "pulsera" doesn't mean beads, it means bracelet.

This is a wonderful novel for Spanish I students in High School. I could even use it with 7th and 8th graders, I believe. We sue it during the summer to keep their Spanish abilities active, and also to build confidence and comprehension. This book does many things for a student: 1) builds vocabulary 2) improves comprehension level 3) motivates students to find out "what happens" 4) provides a new way to increase Spanish knowledge.

As a teacher of ages 3 to 18 year olds, I use excerpts from these books here and there, and use them for a Summer Spanish reading program each summer. Great idea and execution!

Sra. Gose
Author of Flip Flop Spanish: Ages 3-5: Level 1

I teach first-year high school Spanish and I use Pobre Ana near the end of the course. I could use it earlier as well.

The chapters are short. The story contrasts life in California with life in Tepic, Mexico, all through the eyes of Ana.

Ana is from California and doesn't think her quality of life is adequate since she doesn't have a new Mustang, et.al. However, once in Mexico she sees that relationships and the things she can control (like knowing Spanish well) are more important.

The story is a good language learning tool, especially the obviously necessary use of the indirect object pronouns throughout with all the "she said to them", "he said to her" tags.

I would have given 5 stars, but my early edition had a couple of character's names mixed up. I assume that this has been corrected by now.

This is an excellent 'beginning' book for anyone who wants to increase their Spanish learning.

It consists of 300 of the most frequently used words in a first year Spanish class that make up a wonderful story.

It is suitable, I feel, for anyone from Middle School to adult.

I am a teacher of foreign languages and a firm believer in migrating students to mono-lingual dictionaries in the target language as early as possible. This dictionary does a remarkable job of covering a vast array of Spanish in an attractive format.

It is blessed by the Real Academia Espanol, and my experience with it confirms that it meets the high expectations of its pedigree. In addition to providing a respectable variety and depth of definitions, including regional words like "checar", it provides numerous pages of Spanish grammar and fully conjugated Spanish verbs. I am currently using it to decipher some of the less common words in the Spanish version of Harry Potter, and have yet to stump it.

The book is of a manageable (though not pocket) size to fit in a duffel bag or backpack and yet the fonts are large enough to be easily readable. The use of blue keywords in contrast with the black definitions adds to both the ease of using this book and its general aesthetic appeal.

I enthusiastically recommend this book as a first dictionary in Spanish. I suspect it will serve even most college students of Spanish well. I plan on buying a class set for my room.

For those that outgrow this book, I can heartily recommend its larger cousin:
Diccionario Esencial De La Lengua Espanola

"Zafon Characterizes this book, along with El Palacio de la Noche, Las Luces de Septiembre, and Marina--as children books.

They should be read in that context. El Principe de la Niebla is his first book and definitively it shows.

Set in The Spanish Civil War, The Carver family moves to a coastal town to escape the ravages of the war. But as soon as they enter their new house that belonged to Dr. Fleischmann and his family; strange things begin to occur. the house still holds the spirit of young Jacob, the Doctor's son, who drowned under strange circumstances as a child.

Max and Alicia Carver, after befriending a native boy their age, Roland--are faced with the task to discover the mysterious death and the existence of "El Principe de la Niebla"--a diabolical character that has returned from hell to collect on a debt from twenty-five years ago.

the three young children will get involved in an adventure of sunken ships, enchanted statues, and Roland's true identity.

Not as good as La sombra del viento or el Juego del Angel, but still makes for a great read. "

La mayoría de los libros de Carlos Zafón me gusta y este no es una excepción. Es un libro que puedo leer más de una vez. Soy contento de mi compra.

Definitivamente Carlos Ruiz es un gran escritor. El libro es un cuento que te atrapa rapidamente.

Like a number of other reviewers I read El Principe de la Niebla after La Sombra del Viento, but I for one wasn't disappointed. Yes it is a book for teenagers, but don't let that put you off as it is in fact beautifully written and in no way patronises its readers. I especially admire Zafón's linguistic craftmanship and in particular the humorous exchanges between the characters, which provide light relief from a story that is pretty scary and not to be read alone after dark.

Este es un libro maravilloso, soy una avida lectora y esta historia me capturo enseguida. Mi unico afan por terminar de leerlo fue para darselo enseguida a mi hija adolescente para que lo leyera ya que sabia que le iba a encantar. Recomiendo ampliamente esta novela y a este escritor.

Had to read this book for class. It was not as bad as some other old Spanish texts from this period. An interesting and often funny look at the simple life of a picaro and the tricks of the trade. The reader follows Lazarillo from his childhood as the son of a thief and his simple struggle to survive and make his life moderately bearable. The author is very critical of his contemporary Spanish society, and especially the church (this book was banned by the Inquisition). Fear not students, this book is worth the read.

When i first started reading Lazarillo de Tormes on my own, i immediately was amazed with how quick the language and style of the novel caught onto me. I am in a Spanish 3 class, and while reading this, it made me wonder why we NEVER read spanish literature like this! We always read very pointless short stories that are poorly written, and just have a poor cheap plot in general. So it was very refreshing to read a real piece of Spanish literature for the first time in my life. I believe Lazarillo will have a special place in my bookshelf just like that of Don Quixote and other famous works of world literature. If you like Huckleberry Finn, and a story that is full of brutality yet wit and satire, this novel will give u that and more! I didn't realize until now that this is one of the first picturesque novels of Spain, and the story itself became a canvas for other contemporary characters and novels that somewhat has similar characeristics to Lazarillo. Any determined intermediate level Spanish student could read this novel just fine, you may have to have your Spanish dictionary beside you, but all in all it's not an extremely difficult or tedious novel to read in its native language. I highly recommend this book! I believe that Lazarillo de Tormes is highly underrated, and should get just as much hype, respect, and attention as Don Quixote.

Nobody knows for sure who wrote this early novel. But we should be glad he did. This book takes the form of an autobiographical tale, where Lazaro de Tormes tells his misadventures. He is a street-boy, an orphan in constant risk of starvation in a poor Spain, where the richess of the New World never trickled down to the poor inhabitants not connected to the Conquest.

Lazarillo, then, makes a living -if you can call that to make a living- as servant to different miserable characters who exploit and abuse him. But he is anything but a fool. Lazaro is always on the move to cheat and deceive his masters, if only to be able to put something into his stomach and avoid starvation. His adventures are not nice, but brutal. Be it with a blind master, or an avaricious and poor priest, Lazaro is always having funny and hysterical adventures. The best thing about the book is Lazaro's attitude: deep inside, the guy is a winner, not a loser, and he is willing to do anything to go up in life, as far as he can, which is not much: he ends up marrying a priest's mistress (check the mock at the Church) and landing a job which required him to accompany prisoners to their execution (not the nicest of jobs, but at least he got a salary). The adventures are hilarious, the character unforgettable by any means. Besides, you can get a good glimpse at the state of Spanish society at the time, but never forget that, even in rich societies, miserable people abound, and the Lazarillos are still out there, in the streets, living day by day, having adventures not funny at all. Good literature with a great social landscape.

Esta novela es un ejemplo perfecto de la tradicion de la novela picaresca. Lazarillo es un huerfano que trata de servir diferentes amos, pero todos son coruptos y no le tratan bien. Muestra una critica fuerte de la sociedad espanola durante el siglo 16. Toma lugar en Espana por supuesto, y en la ciudad de Toledo tambien. Es cerca de Madrid y es una ciudad hermosa pero aqui muestra la corrupcion de la sociedad. Esta novela es muy importante en la historia de literatura de Espana y si quieres entender la historia de Espana, esta novela es necesario. This novel is a perfect example of the picaresque tradition in literature. Lazarillo is an orphan who tries to serves his masters, but they are corrupt and don't treat him very well. It shows a strong criticism of spanish society in the 16th century. It takes place in Spain of course, and also more specifically, in the city of Toledo. It is close to Madrid and is a beautiful city but here it shows the corruption of society. This novel is very important in the history of literature in Spain, and if you want to understand the history of Spain, this novel is neccesary.

As a Spanish student, I used to get scared off ot the "old stuff." You know, the stuff you may not be interested in but are forced to read in college, anyways. This book changed it all for me ,though. You don't often think of Neo-classic literature as "laugh-out-loud-funny," but that's what I found myself doing while reading Lazarillo. If you're one of the rare people who really got the physical comedy of Don Quixote while still appreciating the pathos, please please read try this book, too!

Es uno de los libros favoritos de mi hija. Lo recomiendo 100%

I agree with the previous reviews that the age range on this is a misleading. This book can be enjoyed as early as you would like to introduce it to your baby or child. It is never to early to start reading to your child! The board book format makes it safe for all ages and both babies and children can appreciate the very high quality photos (with a few illustrations thrown in). For such a small book it contains an amazing amount of information!

My son - 15 months old - can already name some of the animals in English. I think that this book is appropriate for ages one and up. It's a good tool to get your child to use the words he has learned.

I love this bilingual series of books and I hope that DK publishing keeps bringing out more titles. I think, however, that the age range is a bit wrong. I think that this book can be enjoyed as early as 2 years of age, when a child is learning the objects around them. Be sure and check out "My First Spanish Word Board Book" and "My First Spanish Farm Board Book."

This book definitely has a surprise ending. It follows a lonely chicken named Lola who is waiting for her true love to come along so she will not be alone any more. The story has an uplifting and somewhat funny ending that I really enjoyed and children certainly will as well. Another great thing about this book is the Spanish translation right along-side the English. When reading "Lola" I was able to look at the Spanish at the same time as I read the story in English and recognize Spanish words faster. The same would be true for anyone wanting to use this book to learn English. I enjoyed the large pictures that helped move the story along and I know that children especially would enjoy this book as much for the story as for the illustrations while at the same time, learning the basics of another language.

Uno de los aciertos de este texto de Loufane es su final sorpresivo el cual da al traste con los esteriotipos en los cuales se fundamenta el texto. Entre las multiples lecturas que el texto soporta estan aquellas que cuestionan cualquier tipo de prejuicio, sea este racial, de clase o corporal. El texto puede promover la discusion critica entre los lectores.

pictures captivated my 16 month daughter. Good range of words and pictures. Very happy.

I love how this book allows a parent to teach their child both the Spanish and English vocabulary words. I think it is a great introductory tool, and the pictures are brilliant and interesting. We also have "My First Spanish Truck Board Book" and "My First Spanish Animal Board Book." we plan to purchase "My First Spanish Farm Board Book" next. Hopefully, DK will continue this great series.

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Once again I'm really very happy with the delivery
great condition, super fast, Thank you :)
will recomend you any time!

Este es uno de esos libros que deben acompañarnos en la vida, para releerlos y recordarnos que siempre podemos crecer más, no sólo como profesionales, sino como criaturas de este Universo. Para mí es parte de una trilogía especial que comprende a "Juan Salvador Gaviota," de Richard Bach; y "El Profeta," de Gibrán Jalil Gibrán. Una vez lo presté y no creo que lo recupere, así que vine aquí para comprarlo de nuevo.

Al contrario de lo que yo pensaba. No es un manual de ventas, yo me goze y ,termine en lagrimas...Me senti Hafidal comienzo de mi carrera, el estomago vacio, el caminar,el azote de puertas en la nariz,y el lenguje espiritual-romantico.Siempre han puesto de manifiesto que este libro ha sido el mas vendido en todo el mundo, despues de la biblia...Este libro fue de inspiracionpara conocer mas a fondo de Dios y rendir mi vida a ElOg Mandino sin saberlo se ha convertido tambien en predicador de la Santa Bibliaal poner algunos parajes Biblicos dentro del libro..en exacta concordancia a los hechos en cuanto tiempo y espacio...He leido todos sus libros, lo recomiendo a aquellos que deseanser independientes en cuestion de trabjo y a los estudiantes de todo tipo de estudios...Esta es la inspracion de unhombre en vien de la humanidady nolos esajeros que tratan de ver el comunismo , como una solucion...al bien de la humanidad

La lectura de este libro, como todos los de Og Mandino, nos lleva a encontrar otros campos que son mucho más ricos que aquellos en los que vivimos. La historia es simple, las enseñanzas que esta historia trae, es maravillosa. Yo recomendaría este libro sin más. Es un MUST en la literatura de la autoayuda, y, creo yo, del crecimiento personal.