Best children spanish books according to redditors

These are really cool bilingual board books. They each focus on a basic concept (colors, shapes, numbers, etc.), using art from the San Antonio Museum of Art: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595341544/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_B0LRDbTRAP0KS

I’ll add some picture books later, when I get a chance. Also, you could try browsing the online catalogs of public libraries in the US (in areas with lots of Spanish-speakers, like Southern California, Texas, Florida, etc.) to find books that look good.

If she's in the US, it might just be better if she learns English.

With that said, if she seriously wants to learn Spanish, then she might start with a picture book. And then find a Spanish-immersion course.

Also, spanish readers are helpful, but that one might be too advanced.

It's a hard job if you don't have any translated materials...

Which language does she speak?
Another route may be to find a trained (Spanish) linguist who will be a language partner and will teach her Spanish for access to document her language.

For anyone that's interested, the publishing company I used to work for did a bilingual book for children on his life. The illustration work was pretty amazing.

http://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Gabito-Mi-Llamo/dp/0873589084

I like these novels chosen to be accessible for beginners and with some extras: https://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Beginners-Exercises-200-Word-Vocabulary-ebook/dp/B01BN8F714/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=spanish+for+beginners+novels&qid=1568685736&sr=8-4

Holy shit. I saw this post while procrastinating from reading more of this:
http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Spanish-Reader-William-Tardy/dp/0071428062

So... yes. Yes I would read a book like that, if I wasn't on reddit too much. If anyone here wants to read spanish, I highly recommend this.

Also! It's not vocabulary that makes it tough, it's grammar in a language with a lot of conjugation possibilities. Spent some time with Lithuanian... Good God it was impossible to choke down all the different forms verbs/nouns/adjectives could take.

As I have said in other comments, we are not perfect and my reaction was out of shock. First 100 Words Bilingual (Spanish Edition) is the book she hit me with, and these are the dimensions 10.9 x 15.4 x 275.1 inches. I didn't think I needed to explain in great detail why getting hit in the face hurt very badly, but yeah. I understand what a normal reaction is, but as I am not perfect, I make mistakes.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-American-Spanish-Beginner-Intermediate/dp/1444192647

https://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Spanish-Latin-America/dp/0415237866

https://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Spanish-Latin-America-Language/dp/1138960292

Personally I recommend italki, you can get one-on-one teachers there, some of them for pretty cheap, and even if you only take a few lessons with them, chances are they'll direct you to a certain textbook whose series you could follow if you want. Otherwise you can post in Spanish on there and have native speakers correct your writing, make Spanish friends who want to learn English, etc.

Another useful tool you could use is the 700/150/50 rule I've heard once before. It's "learn 700 nouns, 150 verb conjugations (including what each conjugation means, but going slow with each one), and 50 phrases" will make you good enough to start working on more native material (or at the least, intermediate or advanced Spanish textbooks.)

I grew up using Paso a Paso, but I wouldn't recommend them...

Otherwise you could go the hard way; get a book on the complete Spanish grammar https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Spanish-Grammar-Practical-Grammars/dp/0415273048/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479713428&sr=8-1&keywords=modern+spanish+grammar, learn a bunch of Spanish words on Memrise (I'd say at maybe 2000 you could start approaching more native material, but feel free to constantly go to your dictionary (could be online) and write down the new words you don't know, and at maybe 10,000 or 20,000 you've fully "mastered" the language), and find natives to practice with.

Also there's this website that writes news in Spanish for Spanish learners. A1 is the easiest, then A2, B1 is early intermediate, then B2 is considered "fluent", then C1 and C2 are advanced and professional and "could give a lecture in quantum physics good". These are based off the levels for the DELE test, which are based off the European framework for languages. http://www.practicaespanol.com/

If you want I could PM you the name of the textbooks used at my university up until like semester 5 or 6, but I'm too lazy right now to look them up.

https://www.amazon.com/Avancemos-Level-1-MCDOUGAL-LITTEL/dp/061859406X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1498092948&sr=8-2&keywords=avancemos+level+1

This book was the one I learned from they have very useful online exercises if you have a valid online code in the book.

This is the notebook to go with it. that you can write in and do the exercises from the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Avancemos-Cuaderno-Practica-niveles-Student/dp/061876593X/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=061876593X&pd_rd_r=JW2WX5E0YP17C2YDC78C&pd_rd_w=k4AJT&pd_rd_wg=tGf5c&psc=1&refRID=JW2WX5E0YP17C2YDC78C

These are the 4 books I have.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Language-Conversational-Spanish-Coursebooks/dp/0517590506

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Spanish-Dictionary-Grammar-translations/dp/0007484364/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472870518&sr=1-1&keywords=collins+spanish+dictionary+and+grammar

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easy-Learning-Spanish-Conversation-Collins/dp/0008111979/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1472870277&sr=8-13&keywords=collins+dictionary+and+grammar

https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-First-1000-Spanish-Words/dp/1909767603/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472870709&sr=1-1&keywords=my+first+1000+words++spanish

I get mine on Amazon by searching "Graded Spanish Reader" or "Easy Spanish Reader". Print versions can be expensive, but the Kindle versions are usually only a few bucks (or, like this series, included with a $10/month Kindle Unlimited subscription.) Readers do what they're meant to do, but they can be a bit dull, so after a while you may want to move on to simplified novels like this Zorro adaptation or this detective story.

Non-mobile: this Zorro adaptation

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Get these:

http://www.amazon.com/Madrigals-Magic-Key-Spanish-Creative/dp/0385410956

http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Spanish-Reader-William-Tardy/dp/0071428062