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Isabel and her Colores Go to School (English and Spanish Edition) Hardcover – Picture Book, July 15, 2021

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English, with its blustery blues and whites, just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers the warm oranges and pinks of Spanish. As she prepares for class at a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn--and she would rather not! Her first day is uncomfortable, until she discovers there's more than one way to communicate with friends. This is a universal story about feeling new and making new friends.
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PreS-Gr 3-Rojo, verde, azul, rosado, morado, violeta. Spanish-speaking Isabel, with brown skin and curly hair, loves coloring with her favorite crayons. What she does not like is that tomorrow is her first day of school where everyone will speak English. To Isabel, it "sounded wrong, like stormy blues and blizzard whites. Isabel preferred the pinks and yellows and purples" of her own language. Mami, also with brown skin and curly hair, drives Isabel to school where her racially diverse class begins the day with stretches. Her classmates stretch counting "one, two, three," while Isabel counts "uno, dos, tres." At story time, a Black girl named Sarah asks Isabel if she wants to be friends. Isabel does not understand the question, but at coloring time, with its familiar and comforting hues, she draws a picture for Sarah, visually explaining that she indeed wants to be friends. Dawson's warm and radiant illustrations pulse with color as flowers and swirls weave through the backgrounds. This first day of school story beautifully serves as a mirror for children learning English and as a window into their experience for their classmates. Spanish words and phrases are sprinkled throughout the text with full Spanish translations on each spread. Back matter includes a glossary. VERDICT A bilingual story sure to resonate with ELL students and instill empathy in their classmates.-Emily Brush, Novi P.L., MIα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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“Alessandri melds Spanish and English in a narration filled with varying color words, and bubbles on each page offer the corresponding text entirely in Spanish. Dawson’s expressive digital art emphasizes the big-eyed characters’ emotions amid a classroom of students with differing skin tones. This synesthesia-inflected tale helps teach colors while simultaneously buoying those nervous about language barriers. Back matter includes a Spanish-English glossary.” --Publishers Weekly

“Rojo, verde, azul, rosado, ­morado, violeta. Spanish-speaking Isabel, with brown skin and curly hair, loves coloring with her favorite crayons. What she does not like is that tomorrow is her first day of school where everyone will speak English. To Isabel, it “sounded wrong, like stormy blues and blizzard whites. Isabel preferred the pinks and yellows and purples” of her own language. Mami, also with brown skin and curly hair, drives Isabel to school where her racially diverse class ­begins the day with stretches. Her classmates stretch counting “one, two, three,” while Isabel counts “uno, dos, tres.” At story time, a Black girl named Sarah asks Isabel if she wants to be friends. Isabel does not understand the question, but at coloring time, with its familiar and comforting hues, she draws a picture for Sarah, visually explaining that she indeed wants to be friends. Dawson’s warm and radiant illustrations pulse with color as flowers and swirls weave through the backgrounds. This first day of school story beautifully serves as a mirror for children learning English and as a window into their experience for their classmates. Spanish words and phrases are sprinkled throughout the text with full Spanish translations on each spread. Back matter includes a glossary. VERDICT A bilingual story sure to resonate with ELL students and instill empathy in their classmates.” --School Library Journal - Starred Review

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sleeping Bear Press; Bilingual edition (July 15, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1534110631
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1534110632
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 8 years
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ AD540L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Kindergarten - 3
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.33 x 0.42 x 11.31 inches
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Alexandra Alessandri is the award-winning author of several books for children, including Feliz New Year, Ava Gabriela! (Albert Whitman, 2020), Isabel and Her Colores go to School (Sleeping Bear Press, 2021), and The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía (Atheneum/S&S, 2023). The daughter of Colombian immigrants, she is also an educator, a writer for Curriculum Associates, and a poet, with some of her work appearing in The Acentos Review, Rio Grande Review, Atlanta Review, and Young Adult Review Network. Alexandra lives in Florida with her husband and son.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024
    Isabel and Her Colores Go to School is the perfect book to end the summer and prepare for a new school year. It has the perfect balance of Spanish and English and not just the occasional word thrown in. Of course it also has the Spanish translation of the book.

    So happy we added this to our bilingual collection.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2022
    Having been a critique group leader in Miami, I've seen many would-be bilingual books, and I usually do not like them. ISABEL AND HER COLORES, however, is truly bilingual in that it is both in English and Spanish, not just a lot of sprinkled nouns here and there within English sentences. Although the author does add Spanish nouns to English syntax, for example, all the colors that the main character Isabel loves, everything in the English version is translated except those that are obvious from the illustrations. Often, the writer of so-called bilingual books will sprinkle English syntax with a slew of Spanish nouns and most of the time, the nouns aren't translated, leaving English-only speakers in the dark. If it is meant to be a way to teach Spanish, that method fails miserably. Learning vocabulary words in a vacuum is not how language is learned.
    I have an MA in Theoretical Linguistics and I have taught English as a Second Language for a good part of my career. I am not a fan of bilingual books that can't possibly teach the language, yet pretend to do so by mixing the languages up. But Alexandra's Isabel is a protagonist who doesn't know much English, and the Spanish sprinkled in seems to make sense. In addition, the author writes about Isabel in a charming way, and it can be understood by English-only speakers.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2023
    Teaches about diversity, friendship and coping with emotions. Great for early elementary.
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2021
    This book is a must read. The message throughout let’s the reader feel what it’s like for some kids who have trouble fitting in and develop empathy and understanding. Love the text and the colorful images.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021
    This book is beautifully written. What a beautiful way to mesh two cultures, two languages. This book is such a great way to introduce a child to spanish. I highly recommend this book!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2021
    Such a sweet and lovely book!!
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2021
    Bilingual Picture book, realistic fiction/ back to school. Isabel speaks Spanish at home and is off to school where her class is in English. She has a bit of anxiety before her first day, and tries to calm herself down by coloring. But her first day arrives and she manages to cope in various ways-- observing what her classmates are doing, picking out single English words she knows, listening for cognates, and communicating through pictures. By the end of the day she has made a friend and also earned herself a reputation as a good artist. The main text is sprinkle-Spanish, with selected words appearing in Spanish and in bold face. The full text is available in Spanish but appears as more of a sidebar on the page, with a white text on a colored background. In the Spanish text, the few sprinkled English words are in bold. A sweet story that deals with the stressful situation not just of starting school but also being surrounded by those speaking another language. A Spanish/ English glossary appears in the back of the book but does not include phonetic pronunciation.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021
    It’s a day you never forget as a child immigrant—the first day of school in a new country when you are alone, drowning in a sea of words you don’t have even the slightest hope of understanding. And Alexandra Alessandri captures it brilliantly. The fear that Isabel has of the impending first day, her mother’s loving, but firm push toward it, and the feeling of isolation she feels when she gets into the classroom. Brilliant colors and pictures are what allows Isabel to make a bridge to a new friend. The images that Alessandri uses and Courtney Dawson’s illustrations make this book soar.
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  • Li-La
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book for bilingual readers
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2023
    Its a great book about start of the school and being new kid in new country - great read if your kids understands some Spanish and English or is learning them ;-)
  • Fernanda M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Representation
    Reviewed in Germany on September 11, 2022
    It's wonderful. My kid really liked it because she is also strruggling with going to school in a different country and lamguage. We do appreciate representation!! :)
  • Omar
    5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful story & illustrations
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2022
    Love this cute story and beautiful illustrations on each page. Our daughter has a new friend at school who just moved to the UK from Spain. This was a perfect way to show her to help the new boy feel welcome.