Posted on

Book review: ‘Los Gatos guerreros: La mirada secreta’

In Spanish, from 12yo.

For many moons, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan have lived in peace in their territories around the lake. In order to decipher a mysterious prophecy which will send one young medicine cat apprentice on a quest to determine the fate of all the warrior Clans. 

Great adventure book to motivate older children in reading in their minority language.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2Vt98iI

Posted on

Book review: ‘Harry Potter’ in Spanish

In Spanish, from 8yo.

Follow the adventures of Harry Potter, Hermione and Ron and their friends in Spanish. They will have to fight the forces of darkness to save the world. Voldemort is coming back and the Harry must go to Hogwarts to be ready to fight.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2VsUIio

Posted on

Book review: ‘La aldea de los monstruos’

In Spanish, from 8yo.

Can you imagine a village where a monster lives in each house? This would be really scary. Well that’s where Toto arrives after getting lost in the forest. The sinister gravedigger, will guide and protect him in a world populated by fearsome creatures of the night, such as witches, ogres or werewolves. Will Toto find the way back to his home?

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2SBB7ei

Posted on

Book review: ‘El club de lectura del conejito’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

Conejito, ‘bunny’, loves reading. He cannot help himself, he has to stop and listen to the librarian reading books outside the library. He is so happy!

However, summer ends along with the outdoor story times. How can he listen to the stories if he is not allowed inside?

That night, he has an idea. He decides to go to the library and find a way to get in. He manages to get inside through the return chute. This is even better than he had imagined. There are books everywhere on everything. He borrows a few and gets back to his burrow.

He reads all night long. Then his friends one by one come and find him. They wanted to know what he was doing. Bunny took them to the library at night and all together they will spend hours reading until one night, the librarian finds them all.

She explained the rules of the library and gave them all their very own library card. Bunny and his friends were so happy and Bunny creates the Bunny Book Club where all booklovers are welcome.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2ADcVBl

Posted on

Book review: ‘Om’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

Om is a young boy and he is wild. He can turn into an animal. How can he do this? His superpower is yoga.

Beautiful book to introduce yoga to children with the different animal poses. Narrated in an interactive story so children can listen and try the poses as the book goes along.

The illustrations as beautiful and colourful.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2Rx15lG

Posted on

Book review: ‘Juez Dredd, origenes’

In Spanish, from 12yo.

This explains how it all started. Judge Dredd receives a parcel at the courthouse that will send him on a mission to the Curse Land. Find out how he became adept of instant justice in his futuristic world.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2SBAKjE

Posted on

Book review: ‘Splat el gato’

In Spanish, from 2yo.

Splat is a young cat and he is about to start school. He is frightened and finds all sorts of reasons to stay home. Finally, he has to go and decides to take his pet mouse along. Once in the cat’s school, he learns that cats chase mice.

Can you guess what will happen when he releases, Seymour, his pet mouse? How will the day end? WIll Spat want to go back to school?

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2AsRimW

Posted on

Book review: ‘Oficios’

In Spanish, from 0yo.

Gorgeous and sturdy board books. The collection includes 4 titles: The veterinarian, the cook, the mechanic and the gardener.

The designs are contemporary and colourful, perfect to attract the young readers’ attention.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2yEQEks

Posted on

Book review: ‘La ciudad’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

This large format book is perfect to read out in a playgroup or in a classroom. You will love the 32 illustrations by Ingela P. Arrhenius. It will remind you of the 40s and 50s art style.

There is one word about the city per page. You can promote language by asking questions, such as what is the name of your mailman? Is the school close to your house? What is your favourite restaurant?

For more info visit http://bit.ly/2OXkxmq

Posted on

Review: ‘Juego de las 7 familias – ropa y colores’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

Fun card game inspired by the original French version ‘le jeu des 7 families’. From the book series ‘the Zazoos’, put together the families by collecting all the pieces of clothing on each card for each character. The player who has the most complete ‘families’ wins the game.

Great resources to review colours and clothing in Spanish while having fun.

For more information visit http://bit.ly/2NmVLjO