De Colores, Bright with Colors by David Diaz ($7.99)
In this picture book Diaz’s bold and colorful illustrations reflect the meaning of the song perfectly. He focuses on two verses plus the refrain, and also includes the musical arrangement in the back of the book. It is written with full text in Spanish and English. However, though the De Colores song may be translated literally (almost word-for-word) and still retain its meaning, Diaz has chosen to expound a bit, portraying the sentiment and rhythm of the original with beautiful imagery that is supported by his illustrations.
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Love them both, but La Casuela is beautifully illustrated as well as written. 🙂
I’d take all of them but particularly The Cricket Sings and La Casuela. I think I’ve read Guac!
Love this round up of children’s books! My goals is to write a children’s book one day. I need to buy Tortillitas Para Mama and De Colores. My grandma always sang De Colores while cooking — Great memories!
I bet you’d be great at it, Yvette! I’ll be first in line to buy it…
What an awesome list. I never knew there were so many bilingual kids books.
There’s a lot, Patty. But still not enough! 🙂
What a great collection! I don’t own any of those books, but I really need to stock up on bilingual books so I’ll bookmark this page so I can get these. I’m ready to switch to Spanish!
Pattie, some of these are English, some are English with Spanish words embedded in the text, some of them have full text in both English and Spanish, and two of them are in Spanish only. That’s what makes this list so great – there’s something for everyone!
Such great books! I;ll have to look into a couple of those!
Enjoy, Ruby!
Love your suggestions! One of my clients is an early childhood advocacy group and each year they do an early literacy campaign. I’ll bookmark this post for future reference. By the way, one of the most memorable gifts I received as a little girl was a collection of tiny fairytale books in Spanish. It’s long gone but I remember carrying them around and even sleeping with them!
It always makes me so happy to hear about groups promoting early literacy. Thanks, Pamela!