Fiesta!
The children are walking around the market in search of things to fill their piñata. They celebrate with a fiesta (party) at the end.
The illustrations are colorful and the story is fun: collecting special items for a party. The objects go beyond the norm, and its an opportunity to expand vocabulary. You’ll find English and Spanish on each page.
You need to know more than rudimentary Spanish. While the object associated with the number is identified (dos trompetas), the subsequent page asks ¿Que mas? which is hard to anticipate.
S/He didn’t express a lot of interest in this one.
A cute story, with a subject every toddler loves: parties. While we have other Spanish books that also offer help in counting and object identification, this was the first one built around a story. Not sure why it wasn’t a hit.
The book focuses on object identification and counting in Spanish.
The illustrations more than the prose offer opportunities to create an engaging story about shopping in the marketplace.
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5 to 8
0 to 3
Read at 23 months
Borrow. It’s fun, but has its limits in long-term appeal and utility. There are plenty of Spanish books with counting and object identification that will give you variety and teach, too.
| Title | Fiesta! |
| Author | Ginger Fogelsong Guy |
| Publisher | Greenwillow Books, Imprint HarperCollins Publishers © 2003 |
| ISBN | 0060092637 |
| Material | Board Book |
| Genres | Math, Foreign Language | Bilingual, Latin America | Latine People |
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