Sesame Street: Elmo's Word Book: An English/Spanish Flap Book (Lift-the-Flap) (Spanish Edition) Board book – Lift the flap, July 11, 2017

I purchased this book for my 16 month old son who is learning Spanish as a second language. I am learning with him, so I cannot speak to the accuracy of the translation.What I like:- > 26 flaps (cover says >55 flaps)- broad selection of words to expand a child's English and Spanish vocabulary, e.g., animals, fruits, vegetables' other everyday items that a child may encounter and "exotic" items like wand, wig, ukulele, urn and zither.- each two page spread has a theme, e.g. neighborhood, outdoors, kitchen, country fair, city market,- not just words, but also phrases and sentences in both languages, e.g., "I enjoy wiggling my ears" / "Me gusta mover mis orejas", "Vegetables are full of vitamins" /"Los vegetales estan llenos de vitaminas"' "Yum! / Rico!"- large size- not just Elmo; all characters are represented even the classic ones like Big Bird, Bert and Ernie! (My son has only watched a handful of Sesame Street clips on YouTube, so he does not get excited about this book...yet. He will enjoy this book in a few months when he gets more screen time.)What I don't like:Many words do not begin with the same letter in English and Spanish which may be confusing for a child. I suspect that the English version was simply translated to Spanish without any adaptations. For example, the "K" words on the kitchen pages are kitchen/cocina, key/llave, knife/cuchillo, kitten/gatito and kiwi/kiwi. (See attached photo.)

My 2 year old is interested in identifying letters and numbers. I was very excited to find a bilingual sesame street book, but was disappointed in this one. As an ABC book is good. It's got a ton of flaps and I think I saw 3 different toddlers enjoy this book at his Birthday Party.A bilingual ABC can be done, but simply translating a book originally written in English won't work in this case because not all Spanish word match the letter illustrated. For example, words that begin with A in this book: awning (toldo); alligator (caimán); asparagus (espárrago); apples (manzanas); apricots (albaricoque); artichoke (alcachofa). A book like this should be thought in a bilingual way as it's written.If you are looking for a bilingual ABC book, so far I like A is for Airplane (A es para Avión) by Theresa Howell. If you know other good bilingual ABC books, by all means reply to the review and let me know, because I'm looking for them.

Very entertaining. She loves this book.

My 16 month old son loves this book. The pop up pieces help him stay focused. Love the big letters.

This is a fun book, however, it is not a properly bilingual book. It serves no purpose to teach kids about writing in Spanish. It says for example "H -HORSE" and underneath it says "Caballo" which makes no sense for H. They basically got the English version and added translations. Which is fine, but then just doesn't really help to teach about the letters in Spanish. It is also VERY busy with a lot of things going on at once, so it is not good for promoting concentration.

Great book with lots of stuff to keep little one entertained.

I love it my kids tooA mis niños les encantaron

Elmo is a grand daughter's favorite. She's in a bilingual day care and the Spanish-English alphabet book was a big hit.

Muy colorido, super recomendable, didáctico y con mucho aprendizaje.

El libro está hermoso, a mi bebé le encantó. Puede practicar las letras y vocales de una manera divertida. Sin embargo, muchos de los "flaps" o "ventanitas" llegaron pegadas y se rompen al intentar abrirlas como se muestra en las fotos. Algunas están completamente pegadas y no se pueden abrir.

Libro bellamente ilustrado con todos sus personajes favoritos, sin embargo, las palabras en español que aparecen no comienzan con la letra debajo, por lo que no sirve como un libro bilingüe, lo cual es lamentable.

Era un regalo para una niña de dos años y le ha encantado, algunas palabras en castellano latino pero no muchas.

Libro grande con pestañas y vocabulario en inglés . Quizás pocas páginas , pero a mi hijo le gusto .