Hello Spanish! I Want My Banana! / ¡Quiero Mi Plátano!

Name: Hello Spanish! I Want My Banana! / ¡Quiero Mi Plátano!
Brand: Dover Publications
SKU: SP-9780486855530
Price: 17.99 USD
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Jacket Description/Back:
¡Quiero mi plátano!
I Want My Banana!

Monkey is upset. He's hungry and he can't find his banana. The other jungle animals offer to help ... but are they really trying to be his friend?

Mono está triste. Tiene hambre y no puede encontrar su plátano. Los demás animales de la selva quieren ayudarlo ... pero ¿realmente están tratando de ser sus amigos?

Use the magic of this beautifully illustrated story to introduce young children to a new language.

Each Hello Spanish! book includes:
- easy-to-read text in English and Spanish
- an attractive picture dictionary of key words
- a fun quiz at the end of the story

Biographical Note:
Mary Risk is the pseudonym for author Elizabeth Laird, an award-winning British writer of children's fiction and travel, known for her large body of folktales she compiled from Ethiopia's regions. Laird uses her pseudonym for TV and educational writing, including the TV adaptation of The Animals of Farthing Wood, in addition to several stories for children learning English as a foreign language.

Rosa María Martín is the coordinator of language learning at the Language Centre and has organized courses in languages other than English at Queen Mary University of London since 1993. A native Spanish speaker, Rosa holds a BA in Romance Philology (Spanish and French) from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, and an MA in Language and Literature in Education/Modern Languages from the Institute of Education at the University of London. Rosa is a member of the Association of Language Learning and the UK Association of Language Advisors. She conducts courses and hosts talks for language teachers.

Publisher Marketing:
Oh no, poor Monkey! He's lost his banana, and now it's up to him and his jungle friends to track it down. Will they solve the mystery together? Learning Spanish and English is easy with this cute bilingual storybook. It's a breeze for young readers to pick up new words with side-by-side sentences in Spanish and English, accompanied by bold and colorful illustrations, a handy Spanish-English glossary of key words, and a comprehensive quiz for easy reference. Children will have more fun than a barrel of monkeys learning Spanish and English in this entertaining bilingual jungle adventure.

Author: Risk, Mary
Publisher: Dover Publications
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2025-09-16
BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction / Language Study / Spanish
Weight: 0.26 lbs
ISBN: 9780486855530
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780486855530