"Abuela" By: Arthur Dorros

The book Abuela is a very cute book. It is about a grandmother and her granddaughter and their crazy adventures, both real and imaginary. This book is neat because it includes both Spanish and English words. Even though it includes words from two languages it isn't difficult to understand what is happening in the story because it is repeated in the other language. For example, people in the book say 'buenos dias' and then after that it says 'good morning'. I think this book would be really helpful to use with Spanish speaking ESL students. This book would help them because they could read the words in their primary language, and then see them in English. In addition to being helpful to ESL students I think that little kids would enjoy this book. Kids enjoy learning Spanish words from the "Dora the Explorer" show so they would most likely enjoy learning some Spanish through a colorful picture book.
This book has beautiful illustrations, which were done by Elisa Kleven. The colorful pictures highlight the little girl's fun imagination. The illustrations are really neat because they are made using various mediums such as, watercolor, pastels, and cut paper. I think this was a very cute book, and I could see kindergarteners and first graders really enjoying it.