5 Minutes for Books – Part 1 – A Book for Little Ones…
Thank you for all the encouraging comments regarding the launch of the new column. We are really excited about it as well.
And congratulations to Lu at Hyperactive Lu, the winner of last week’s contest for Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God. If you didn’t win, you can click through to buy it on amazon, or head to your local bookstore and ask for it. Read on for even more giveaways today!
Today is a double feature here at 5 Minutes for Books – with a book for children and a book for you. We will separate the reviews into two posts however, so that you can enter your comments separately. The children’s book review, written by Janice, is included here and it is a contest with 3 copies available to win. To enter, make sure you leave a comment on this post. The second review (the book for you!) is written by Jennifer and includes 5 copies to giveaway. Make sure you scroll down or click here to read it as well.
Sweet Arts Design presents a delightful, bilingual Alphabet Book
With delicate artwork and gorgeous colors, this beautiful, personalized alphabet book will delight your little one, while introducing them to a second language.
Amy Hallali, a stay-at-home mom with twin girls, created this bilingual children’s alphabet book as a way for her French husband to introduce their girls to the French language.
She has now expanded the line to include Spanish and English versions as well. In fact, you can choose between French only, French/English, English only, Spanish/English or Spanish only.
And that is not all – you can make this book perfect for your child, personalizing it with their name and even choosing the cover color!
Jackson and Julia will both be going to French Immersion when they start school, so we were thrilled to get this book for Julia. (Julia is learning Italian as well, but since there are no Italian Immersion schools in this part of the world, she will be following Jackson into French Immersion.) With each page written in both English and French – it is perfect for Susan and me as we work to refresh our French while teaching Jackson and Julia.
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Amy has created a wonderful little masterpiece — a perfect gift or keepsake for any young child. The books are available in hard or soft covers. We have the soft cover and it is sturdy and durable, with top quality card and paper stock. It truly is a gorgeous little book!
And thanks to the author Amy Hallali, we are giving away THREE soft cover personalized books! The winners get to choose which book they’d like (French only, French/English, English only, Spanish/English or Spanish only,) pick the cover color and personalize it with their child’s name.
This is a beautiful book ladies – I am sure your young ones will love it! (Amy is offering our readers a 10% discount. The discount will be applied as a refund because Amy doesn’t have that shopping cart feature. Please use code 5M4M in comment box.)
To enter to win, just leave your comment at this post and we will announce the winners next Monday. (This contest is open to Canadians.) After you have left your comment – don’t forget to read Jennifer’s review and enter that contest as well…
88 Comments
Cool, my daughter would love this!
love love love books. Count me in
What a gorgeous book. So Awesome.
Neat! Please include me.
wow–wonderful book–I would love to win this
That is so cute, I’d love it! I sucked at spanish but made friends with my spanish teacher (she loves me and hubby from school) and so we feel the baby should learn spanish early!
What a beautiful book! I’m so in!
too cute. count me in!
Beautiful! I’d love to be included in the drawing.
How sweet! PLease include me.
Sounds like a very cool book!
I need to be reading to the baby more often. This would be so nice.
What a beautiful book. The illustrations are very colorful.
Count me in.
Yes please. My girls would love this book!!! Cool
Beautiful! Count me in.
Neat way to introduce french. We’d love it here, my daughter (3yr) has been learning french on a tape in the car. I think it would be great if she had a book that had words written in french. Count me in.
This looks awesome!
I LOVE this book – and if I don’t win – I’ll just have to buy one!! Thanks for a great post!
Can I win it? Pleeeeeeease!
I love this little book! What a great idea.
that’s a good idea!
What a beautiful book!
Looks like a very nice book, bright and colorful too!
Very nice idea. Can I enter to win? : )
LOVE this whole concept!! What a Great teaching tool~ and they look Adorable as well!!
I hope I win!!
Thanks,
Amy
My kids are very interested in Spanish! This would be so awesome!
I would love, love, love this! I speak French and would love to have an extra resource for my children!
personalized books are so special !
Looks like a great book!
Great book! I’d love to be entered in the drawing. Thanks!
This would be great to add to our children’s collection. I like buying them books as treats for good behavior. My children and nieces and nephews love to recieve books.
lovelovelove this!
Oh, this is just so right! I’d love to have this for my kid. Thanks sooooo much!
These are adorable. They would be perfect for baby shower gift.
I think I would use my daughter’s first name (Veronica) and not her middle (Roo) because it would be too short…
This book is beautiful! So creative! I love it!
The book looks precious! I am teaching my little ones spanish and they really liked this book I read them and I was looking for other resources to further it…so thank you so much for the review!!
FYI, the book I used that my kids loved (they are in pre-school and primary grades) was this book called “Tim & Kim” by Kay Linda Nord. It is interesting – Nord teaches mexican spanish instead the traditional form of castilian…anyway I thought it was great…http://kaylindanord.com/
Thanks again for this review of the book! Exactly what I am looking for.