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The perfect book of short, simple stories for learning Spanish, with online audio! Widely praised by beginners and by parents raising bilingual kids! 28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales & Fables is a language learning resource (not a picture book) designed to fuel the improvement of learners of Spanish or English. Engaging and effective for children, teens, and adults, with easy access to online audio files offering professional narration in both languages. A useful, flexible resource for self-study, homeschooling, or classroom use, it includes ideas for learners, parents, and teachers to make the most of this book in order to advance their language learning aims. The book consists of familiar stories crafted in short, simple texts on dual-facing English and Spanish pages that can benefit a wide range of ages and learning situations: *Children, monolingual or bilingual, who are developing their language and literacy ability in Spanish and/or English, whether at home or at school. *Teens and adults who are language learners of Spanish or English, whether studying on their own or in a classroom. With these enjoyable, text-only stories, learners can focus fully on the target language to strengthen their language skills. This format also offers parents and teachers the flexibility to follow up with their own questions or exercises, if they wish, which can be targeted to the particular needs of their children or students.

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"""What an engaging resource! I appreciate the way the author uses the action and patterns of familiar stories to focus on high frequency structures. The short sentences help language learners keep their bearings, while the concise narration holds their attention. These stories will be a tremendous confidence builder for my students! The audio files make it easy to create rich learning experiences in different settings. I am sure many dual language programs, world language classes, and families will make these stories an integral part of their language journey."" --Jennifer Brunk, longtime educator and founder of Spanish Playground, a leading site for Spanish resources, and creator of the Spanish Playground YouTube channel ""Stories are simply the best way to provide engaging language. This delightful collection of fairy tales and fables is a wonderful resource for kids to adults, to improve their listening and reading skills in Spanish or English. The comprehensible stories help learners acquire new language in context, and support bilingual kids in expanding their vocabulary. My own kids love listening to them at night before bed!"" --Elisabeth Alvarado, founder of the popular blog Spanish Mama and creator of practical and engaging Spanish resources for the home and classroom at Teachers Pay Teachers ""28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales & Fables is a wonderful language learning tool for all ages by an authority in the bilingual world, Adam Beck! Easy to read, fun to listen to, the book offers the readers plenty of opportunities to learn words, sentence structures, sounds and rhythms without missing a beat. A resource for generations to come. Bravo, Mr. Beck!"" --Maritere Bellas, award-winning author, parenting topic expert, and advocate of raising bilingual and multicultural children ""A must-have for families raising bilingual kids in English and Spanish, it gives parents the opportunity to provide exposure in each language and help their children improve their language skills. Using the same resource, parents can share the special moment of reading to their children those traditional stories that have become classics for so many cultures around the world."" --Ana Calabrese, bilingualism advocate, founder of the musical approach Spanish Plus Me, and creator of the album ""Short + Fun Spanish Beats"""

What an engaging resource! I appreciate the way the author uses the action and patterns of familiar stories to focus on high frequency structures. The short sentences help language learners keep their bearings, while the concise narration holds their attention. These stories will be a tremendous confidence builder for my students! The audio files make it easy to create rich learning experiences in different settings. I am sure many dual language programs, world language classes, and families will make these stories an integral part of their language journey. --Jennifer Brunk, longtime educator and founder of Spanish Playground, a leading site for Spanish resources, and creator of the Spanish Playground YouTube channel Stories are simply the best way to provide engaging language. This delightful collection of fairy tales and fables is a wonderful resource for kids to adults, to improve their listening and reading skills in Spanish or English. The comprehensible stories help learners acquire new language in context, and support bilingual kids in expanding their vocabulary. My own kids love listening to them at night before bed! --Elisabeth Alvarado, founder of the popular blog Spanish Mama and creator of practical and engaging Spanish resources for the home and classroom at Teachers Pay Teachers 28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales & Fables is a wonderful language learning tool for all ages by an authority in the bilingual world, Adam Beck! Easy to read, fun to listen to, the book offers the readers plenty of opportunities to learn words, sentence structures, sounds and rhythms without missing a beat. A resource for generations to come. Bravo, Mr. Beck! --Maritere Bellas, award-winning author, parenting topic expert, and advocate of raising bilingual and multicultural children A must-have for families raising bilingual kids in English and Spanish, it gives parents the opportunity to provide exposure in each language and help their children improve their language skills. Using the same resource, parents can share the special moment of reading to their children those traditional stories that have become classics for so many cultures around the world. --Ana Calabrese, bilingualism advocate, founder of the musical approach Spanish Plus Me, and creator of the album Short + Fun Spanish Beats

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"Adam Beck is the author of the popular books Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability and Bilingual Success Stories Around the World, both praised worldwide by parents and leaders in the field of child bilingualism for their practical and empowering approach to the bilingual aim. He is also the author of the playful ""picture book for adults"" titled I WANT TO BE BILINGUAL! (illustrated by Pavel Goldaev), which emphasizes the most important information parents need for realizing joyful success on a bilingual journey.In addition, he created 28 Bilingual English-Spanish Fairy Tales & Fables, a language learning resource containing short, simple texts on dual-facing English and Spanish pages. This engaging book, with online audio, is useful for any learner of Spanish or English, from kids to adults.Adam is the founder of the influential blog Bilingual Monkeys (https: //bilingualmonkeys.com) and the lively forum The Bilingual Zoo (https: //bilingualzoo.com). Along with his books and his online writing, he provides powerful, one-to-one support for parents raising bilingual and multilingual children through Bilingual SuperKids (https: //bilingualsuperkids.com), his private coaching program."

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