Zapata: Colors / Colores: A Bilingual Book of Colors

Lil' Libros

by Patty Rodríguez, Ariana Stein

Inspired by Emiliano Zapata, a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, this book will introduce your little one to colors and their first English and Spanish words.

ABOUT LIL' LIBROS: The Lil' Libros series will introduce bilingual literature to the youngest readers; newborns to three-year-olds. For more information, visit www.LilLibros.com.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Spanish Literature

22 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like this board book series. Simple concepts with vibrant colors - and easy to understand words in Spanish! I am going to look for more books in this series - really helpful as far as building up my very limited Spanish vocabulary. Hopefully this time next year I will be reading my first books in Spanish only!

[Chrisanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I definitely am interested in more historical background but it wasn't necessary for the book. Loved the way it integrated culture with colors.

[Hannah]

I'll be buying this whole series for everyone with babies from now on, probably.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm loving these bilingual board books by Rodriguez and Stein, at least the ones clearly meant for tots. The bright clear illustrations are full of love and joy. It will be interesting when I get to the biographies though; how does one do a bio of Evita for the littlest children?

Interestingly, this directly competes with the same team's La Catrina: Colors / Colores. Many of the colors are the same, too, amarillo y negro y cafe.... I think I slightly prefer this as it includes colors not often seen in similar books, such as plata y oro....

[Jillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

These Lil' Libros are a delightful collection of bilingual board books for teaching first words in English & Spanish. Grounded in cultural inspiration, and with an engaging illustration style, each book is sure to be a hit while it teaches words around a theme in English & Spanish. There is even a bit of a storyline to the order of the words to infer.

[Andrés · Rating 2 out of 5]

We are familiar with this series and appreciate its simplicity. I wish the last page had a 5 sentence explainer for adults about the featured character. I need to do a web search about Emiliano Zapata now to fill in the blanks of the story.

[Samantha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Decent concept, but it doesn't tell you who Zapata is or why he is important (and I think kids would be interested to learn his story). In addition, some of the color choices make the text nearly impossible to read.

[Roberto Diaz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series of books and I read this book to my one year old often. If you're looking for a great bilingual Spanish and English bilingual book for your child this is a great resource!

[Brittany · Rating 5 out of 5]

cute board book!

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another book in this series that does a fab job of conveying biographical details using only sparse language.

[Imelda · Rating 4 out of 5]

My baby has started enjoying this book (and others of the same series) more at the age of 10 months.

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun and colorful

This book has nice illustrations focused on the story of Zapata. My son liked it and so did I. Especially fun for history buffs.

[Ricky · Rating 5 out of 5]

A daily bilingual treat for me to read to my little one nightly. Love the illustrations.

[Rosalind Andrews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good after-dinner book

[Phyll]

cute illustrations but the text is hard to read and one of the pages says "sombreros cafe" which doesn't seem grammatically correct.

[Diana Salazar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple book with the theme of Zapata

[Elizabeth]

I liked the idea of using revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in an introductory board book, but, much like La Llorona , you really have to already know about him to get the references -- yellow corn, brown hats, and green pastures evoke the rural life he fought for, and his white horse is admittedly famous; the purple envelope is correspondence between Emiliano Zapata and Jesus Guajardo, who I had to Google, which made the silver coins make more sense ... but they show up a couple pages earlier, so maybe they're supposed to be a reference to something else? I was confused by the gold chair until I noticed the man's mustache was smaller than that of the Zapata on the cover and he had a nametag that said "Villa." I don't actually know what the red gate at the end is supposed to be.

I think I want these books to do more educating about the source they're drawing on than they're interested in/intending to do.

[Haaley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun but nothing special even though the kids think so. It must be magic.