bilingual education

Product of the Week: Lola Book & Puppets

by kellytirman on May 20, 2010 · 2 comments

As a parent, I am always on the lookout for books and toys that share my values and depict real world scenarios in age appropriate ways. This beautifully illustrated book and puppet set are a great tool for not only raising bilingual children, but for teaching children to never settle, to take the path less traveled and most importantly, that love is color blind.

Meet Lola. She may live on a simple little chicken farm but she is no simple little chicken.

All the other (simple) chickens squabble and fuss trying to get the attention of the big, bold self-involved rooster.

Every day, the big bold self-involved rooster picks one of the chickens to sit next to him. An honor for any simple chicken.

But Lola, didn’t want to sit next to the rooster. She wanted to sit next to someone special-someone who loves her and only her. So Lola decided that the simple chicken farm was too complicated and stepped outside the safety of the fence in search of something more. (BTW – The rooster’s ego was crushed and he learned his lesson)

Lola traveled far and picked her own path declaring, “Now it’s my turn to choose!”

Meet the fox. This can’t be good, right? Don’t foxes eat chickens? But who is to say that all foxes are bad…

This Set includes:

hardcover bilingual (English/Spanish) Lola Book with 32 pages of beautiful colorful illustrations
Lola Puppet
Fox Puppet

Here’s the Deal:
Sold separately these three items retail for $39.85 however purchased together in my bundle, they will only cost you $30.00. Also – I got FREE SHIPPING on this for you! You definitely can’t find this cheaper, and you definitely can’t find cuter puppets to teach your kids about such love. Go ahead and Google it- you won’t find a better deal. I’m totally the low price leader (that sounds so cool to say and MEAN IT!).

You know your son/daughter (your more human version of the less simple chicken, Lola) will love it! When you’re going through check out – enter code LolaShipMay and voila! FREE SHIPPING (Only until 5/31).

Oh, and THEN, once you’ve received your book and puppets… please comment on this post to let me know how much your kiddos loved it.

About this series: Every week I pick a product from my shop and let you know why I love it. When possible, I will work with OpenSky and/or the Supplier to bring you a discount for the week that product is featured. All products featured are ones I feel are either GOOD for you and/or GOOD for the environment. I really hope you find these products to be as FUN and FABULOUS as I do.

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Bilingual Board Books (English/Spanish)

by kellytirman on November 17, 2009 · 0 comments

in Baby, Books, Reviews

One of the goals I have as a parent is to raise my daughter to be multilingual. Since my husband and I primarily speak English I know this is not going to be an easy task. While attending bilingual story and rhyme time at our local library I discovered the following series of books by Gladys Rosa-Mendoza.

These bright, colorful, and engaging books introduce basic words, simple sentences and important concepts to preschoolers. The concepts and language within the books become gradually more challenging in the later volumes.

Although there are many Spanish language books for children, this series has quickly become a key resource in my quest to raise a multilingual child for the following reasons.

Durable
Rounded corners allow for young children to access them independently and since they are board books they are less likely to get ripped or chewed up, allowing them to last several years.

Bilingual
Since they contain both English and Spanish it makes them a valuable resource for both native Spanish and English speakers. This series of books actually uses the Spanish language properly and the translations make sense, which is not always the case with other translated books. I also like that as I read these books to my daughter my Spanish is improving as well.

Award Winning Quality
Not only are these books well written/illustrated they often contain themes of love and self-esteem. This series has won three Latino Literacy Awards, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Award of Excellence at Chicago Book Clinic Book & Media Show, First Place in the International Latino Book Awards, and seven Writer’s Digest Certificate of Merit Awards.

Tools for Proper Pronunciation
At the back of each book there is a page of pronunciations (both English and Spanish) to help the reader learn how to correctly say each word, which is especially beneficial to parents that are not bilingual.