Learn Spanish: Spanish for Kids. Life of Basil - La vida de Albahaca: Bilingual Book in English and Spanish

Colin Hann · Pedro Páramo

Jul 2014 · LingoLibros

About this ebook

Basil finds himself in a strange new pot and meets our other chatty little plants. They think they know some stuff, but when it comes to animals, they know nothing. One wild assumption followed by another gets them into big trouble. Next time they may not be so lucky!

This illustrated story is for bilingual children and Spanish language students with a basic or intermediate knowledge who want to study a dual language text in English and Spanish. The book has two sections. In the first part, the English and Spanish languages, which use everyday language of native speakers, are displayed together in short paragraphs. This makes it easy
to compare the two languages. The second section is the story in Spanish only, so that those with an intermediate level can test their understanding. We hope you enjoy the story.
Excerpt from the Story-
The first thing in his life that Basil remembered was cold air. A little girl put Basil's pot down on the front door step.
La primera cosa que Albahaca recordaba de su vida era el aire frío. Una niña posó el tiesto de Albahaca en el escalón de la puerta principal.

Next to the front door he saw a big flowerpot. It was bright blue and on it was painted a picture of an orange cat.
"What a scary animal!" thought Basil.
Al lado de la puerta, Albahaca vio una gran maceta. Era azul brillante y sobre ella había pintado un dibujo de un gato naranja.
—¡Qué animal tan aterrador! —pensó Albahaca. 

Ratings and reviews

You can charge us with something if it's free I mean if it's free I can charge us for it what would you charge people for a Spanish book that's not true if it's not free put a price on it because when I looked at it it said 0 zero dollars and sense so why do you want money for your little car just let me and my little niece why would you need a call for something that says free it's not free. Don't put free on it😬😬😤😡😈😠

What a fun story! I am an adult who took 4 years of Spanish in high school, and I am now dedicated to becoming more fluent - at least in basic conversation. This book was perfect for me, as I love gardening so I enjoyed reading about the life of this little basil plant. I was able to understand the majority of it by reading the Spanish portion very slowly, though there were words I was not familiar with which I had to look up ( I find that taking the time to actually look up words, rather than read the direct translation provided, improves my retention). It was a cute story and is great for helping to improve Spanish reading comprehension. Thank you!

It is only for children like me because you are not a child and I hate your comments and I am 6 year,s old thanks you for making me cry and LOL

About the author

Colin Hann and Pedro Páramo are friends and partners in the LingoLibros adventure. Lingolibros is a young and developing company. Our aim is to produce quality bilingual books with an easy to follow parallel text, at an affordable price. We believe that they will be of particular benefit to couples with bilingual children who hope to develop their child's understanding of their native tongues. Our books are, so far, short stories with amusing illustrations suitable for reading aloud to young children in a single language or in a combination of two languages. Older children can enjoy reading these stories by themselves to learn and practice their second language. Students with a basic or intermediate knowledge of a foreign language will find these books very helpful in developing their vocabulary and understanding of the
second language. We hope you benefit from and enjoy reading these bilingual tales.