La Primavera (Spring)

Children's Literature - Rosa Roberts

Emerging Spanish readers will gain overall knowledge about springtime days in this simplistic text. The season of warmer weather, the longer duration of the days, plants beginning to bud, birds building their nests, and bees pollinating are vividly portrayed through the actual photographs supplementing the one- sentence text on each page. The book is compact in size and makes it easy for beginning readers to flip the twenty-three pages. Vocabulary words are in bold type throughout the pages, and a glossary is located at the end of the book. In addition, the four seasons, with the sun's positioning for each, is explained in a straightforward visual manner for young children to learn. Other additional information about spring is provided for readers, such as certain animals hatching from their eggs and rain assisting in the growth of plants and flowers.