SIPAPA Reads! Best Spanish Books for Kids

Summer Reading: After Kindergarten

The Summer Reading list for After Kindergarten (Incoming 1st Graders) is now available at the SIPAPA bookstore.

Here's the full list and where to get them - Amazon, Palo Alto & Mountain View libraries.

Harry el Perrito Sucio / Harry the Dirty Dog
Clay

ISBN-10: 0064434435

Harry es un perrito blanco con manchas negras al que todo le gusta . . . excepto bañarse. Así que un día antes del baño, Harry se escapa. Se pasa el día, jugando en la calle y pronto está tan sucio que se convierte en un perro negro con manchas blancas. Ahora Harry tiene un problema: ¡su propia familia no lo reconoce!

Get it at: Amazon    Palo Alto Library    Mountain View Library

Buenas Noches, luna (Goodnight Moon)
Brown & Hurd
ISBN-10:0590131591

Loyal to the original, this translation has retained the poetic and soothing tone that makes it a favorite read-aloud. It's as popular among Spanish readers as its original always has been among English readers.

Get it at: Amazon    Mountain View Library

Maestra Sandoval's Summer Reading Picks

Me gustaría tener by Alma Flor Ada,

For ages 4-8; 16 pages; part of the Libros para contar series; beautifully illustrated book

¿Quién nacerá aquí? by Alma Flor Ada

For ages 4-8; 24 pages; part of the Libros para contar series;

A charming series, illustrated with watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings. The stories are told in a humorous style and are enhanced throughout by Ada's gift for language and poetry. El Canto . . . is the droll story of a frog who eats a mosquito and whose song then sounds like that of a mosquito. The frog is eaten by a fish, who then sings like a mosquito, etc.

La noche de las tortugas by Liusella Grondona

21 pages;

Mis primeros poemas y canciones by Lourdes Soto

Scholastic ISBN 0-590-51908-5; this book appears to be out of print

Siempre te querré by Hans Wilhelm

PreSchool-Grade 3– A picture-book story in which a beloved dog becomes sick and eventually dies. The young boy who narrates the story is consoled by the fact that every night before bed he had told his dog, “I will always love you.”

Las gallinas no son las unicas by Ruth Heller

Ages 4-8; 32 pages;  (Science/Health)
Readers learn that not only chickens but birds, reptiles, fish, and insects also lay eggs.