Un Pez Para Alimentar (a Fish to Feed) (Spanish and English Edition) - Hardcover

Mayer, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595727582 ISBN 13: 9781595727589

Publisher: Star Bright Books, 2016

Synopsis

***A board book with a special feature!
A father and his child go shopping, searching for a pet fish. They find and talk about many things along the way, but where is the fish? Toddlers will love searching for that special fish. Adults can learn ways to support children's language and speech development from A Fish to Feed.

Small Talk Books ® are playful stories celebrating diversity while featuring young children and their parents talking and having fun together. The books show families how to build young children's language through conversation, during everyday small moments together. Frequent small talks add up to big learning gains for young children!

Adult characters in the stories model fun and enriching ways to talk with babies and young children. In A Fish to Feed, the father talks with his toddler about what interests the child. He responds to the child's two words in different ways that all provide the child with more language.

Each book in the series also contains a note by early childhood language and literacy expert Dr. Betty Bardige, author of Talk to Me, Baby! How You Can Support Young Children's Language Development.

About this title

About the Author

Ellen Mayer is a writer and early literacy home visitor who helps families support their children's language development through books and play. She has a M.Phil. in Sociology and worked as a researcher at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, studying family engagement in education.

Ying-Hwa Hu has illustrated many distinguished picture books, including The Three Billy Goats Gruff published by Star Bright Books. She lives in New York City with her husband, illustrator Cornelius Wright, and their daughter and son.

Review

A young tot buys a fish with her father.This board book's narrative describes the sea rch for a fish, but the real goal is helping little ones develop their verbal skills. A note for parents on the opening pages outlines the importance of constantly involving a toddler in conversation in order to expand their communication skills. Narrating the day's events and replying back to toddlers' single-word responses with affirmative language is key and readily displayed in the book's narrative. A father has decided to take his daughter out to buy a fish, and the pair pokes around the store before finding the perfect pet. "Look fish! Fish! Fish!" exclaims the enthusiastic African-American toddler (she has fabulous, wild hair). "Yes, I see the toy fish too," replies the dad. "That's a pretend fish to play with, not a fish to swim in our bowl." This is a book best read by little ones that are starting to talk here and there but are still developing vocabulary and sentence structure. A similar title, Red Socks, goes one step down the developmental ladder and is ai med at those that are barely cooing.A straightforward, informative, and joyous read for both parent and child. --Kirkus Reviews

A Fish to Feed is an exciting new board book from the Small Talk Books series to encourage early communication and socialization skills in children from the age of 6 months to 2 years. Featuring interactions between an African American father and young daughter about buying a new live goldfish to care for, A Fish to Feed highlights both illustrations and narrative to focus a child's attention on the subject. In addition, this colorful and imaginative board book has circular cutouts to frame featured pictures, encouraging further interactions and analysis by the early reader, with adult encouragement. In each page, the father explains to his daughter exactly what they are looking for, a live goldfish that they can feed and take home to live in a fishbowl. The child discovers a fish to wear, and a toy fish to play with, but these are not the live fish they are seeking, her father explains. Finally the cutout hole frames a live gold fish swimming in an aquarium in a pet shop, and the girl and her father find their fish to feed. The conversational tone of A Fish to Feed promotes early language development and awareness, and the book's appealing illustrations increase environmental awareness as well as the concept of cultural diversity. A Fish to Feed is a delightful experience to enhance the learning and literacy of very young children. Also highly recommended from this series is a second board book by the same author and illustrator titled Red Socks. --The Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Star Bright Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1595727582
• ISBN 13: 9781595727589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 18