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HOME Spanish main page Spanish Pack 1 CD-ROM for Pack 1 Spanish Pack 2 on this page: Choosing a dictionary for young beginners Spanish picture dictionaries Activity & colouring books I CAN READ - Spanish -English stories The Hungry Caterpillar - in Spanish NEW! Lucy Cat - strip cartoon story books Back to top
	Choosing a dictionary for young beginners
	A bilingual dictionary...?
	NEW Oxford Primary Spanish Dictionary
	Extracts from Oxford Primary Spanish Dictionary		This is a completely new dictionary specially designed for children aged 7-11 just starting to learn Spanish. We recommend it because it has all the basic features of a "proper" bilingual dictionary - two sides (Sp-En/En-Sp) - age-appropriate vocabulary - examples of usage - simple grammar info without confusing abbreviations. Notes There are lots of notes (see left) about language and culture, and warnings about "false friends". It covers Spanish and Latin American practice. Price: ONLY £
	You can also find words arranged by topic in a "picture dictionary" section.	Topic pages A special illustrated section (see left) shows everyday life and culture, with words and phrases on topics e.g. sports, hobbies, healthy eating, family, jobs. Verb tables Children are helped to find the form of the verb they need for present, past and future tenses.
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	Hide-and-Speak Spanish	Both picture dictionaries have wipe-clean cover-up flaps for "look, cover and speak".
	A picture dictionary that helps you remember! Yhis book offers a simple effecrive way to learn over 130 key words using the tried-and-tested 'look, cover and speak' method. Key words with picture cues on one page, humorous scenes with short sentences on the other. You can practise speaking or writing the Spanish words over-and-over again using the two wipe-clean flaps to cover the words or the pictures.
	Price: Hide and Speak Spanish ONLY £ Price: NEW! More Hide and Speak Spanish £

Back to top	First Spanish with Supergato	book with poster, games, flashcards and audio CD.
	Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it's Supergato, who's flown over to play games, do activities and sing songs with you, in Spanish. A super-fun way for you to improve your language skills, while having a super-fun time. The accompanying audio CD will help you learn super-fun songs and perfect your pronunciation.
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Spanish Fun - with audio-CD
A book full of lively puzzles, games, cutting and sticking activities to practise essential first Spanish words and phrases. Includes colourful press-out characters with clothes to dress them. Pack includes an audio-CD for pronunciation, recorded with native speaker.
Spanish Fun with audio CD Age 7+ Price: £ + VAT Spanish Fun book only Price: £ - NO VAT

Colour In Spanish
Colouring book with a difference. A wonderful way to learn 300+ simple but useful new words in Spanish. Clear black and white pictures of the popular themes, such as beach, countryside, wild animals, zoo animals, colours, and numbers. Each picture numbered so you can easily find the Spanish word for the picture you are colouring at the side of the page. Age 4+ Price: £

I can read Spanish! - Spanish - English bilingual stories

Children love these warm humorous stories and the enchanting colour pictures by very talented illustrators. Ideal for reading aloud, they provide a rich "mine" of language to talk about. The parallel Spanish-English texts are written in natural language, simple and carefully controlled . Lots of repetition makes them perfect for young language learners taking their first steps in reading Spanish. Each book ends with a short picture dictionary to highlight the key words in the new language. Also included is an introduction on using the book and a complete guide to the pronunciation of the foreign language, Some titles are now also available as interactive 'Talking Big Book' CD-ROMs, with each story read by a Spanish native speaker.

Back to top	Puppy finds a Friend
			It's Saturday and Puppy wants to play. He tries his farmyard friends but they all have something more important to do. Will he have to play alone, or can he find a friend after all? Book price: £ Also available as an interactive CD-ROM - find out more>
Back to top	What's for Supper?
Back to top			Dad and his children are cooking tonight, but first they have to go shopping at the supermarket. They want to keep the dish a secret from Mum. What can they be making? Book price: £ Also available as an interactive CD-ROM - find out more>

Back to top	Happy Birthday!
			Michael's party is in full swing when - oops, away fly all the colourful balloons! Is the party spoilt or will Mum come to the rescue? Price: £ Also available as an interactive CD-ROM - find out more>
	I Want My Banana!
Back to top			Monkey's hungry, but he can't find his banana. Some fearsome jungle creatures offer him tasty alternatives, but monkey isn't convinced of their generosity. Book price: £ Also available as an interactive CD-ROM - find out more>
	I'm Too Big
Back to top		The elephant and giraffe are unhappy. One would like to be taller, the other shorter. One would like bigger ears, the other smaller ones. But finally they agree. they like each other as they are. Book price: £ Also available in French
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Back to top	Get Dressed, Robbie
Back to top		Robbie loves getting dressed all by himself, but his choice of clothes is often very original. Today he's going out with his mum. What does he choose to wear? Book price: £ Also available in French
	Goodnight Everyone
Back to top		t's Martha's bedtime, but first she has to say goodnight to all her cuddly friends: teddy, penguin, monkey and little mouse. They're all tucked in. but will there be space for Martha? Book price: £ Also available in French

NEW! George the Goldfish	NEW! Space Postman
Harry is sad when George his pet goldfish dies and is buried in the garden. But when spring comes, Harry has a wonderful surprise. Book price: £ Also available in French	The space postman is delivering letters and parcels to all the planets when disaster strikes and the postbag falls out of his spaceship! Will Blop get his postcard? Book price: £ Also available in French
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NEW! The Hungry Caterpillar in Spanish
"The Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle The Spanish-language version of this well-loved classic picture story is called La oruga muy hambrienta.   Familiar to most children, you can use it for great lessons based around the story, focusing on the Spanish words for counting, foods and days-of-the-week to help get children started in reading Spanish. (see Ch.11 in Early Start Spanish 1).	Our price: £

NEW! Spanish Lucy Cat files on CD-ROM for your whiteboard. Find out more-->	Lucy Cat - bilingual comic strip books and CD-ROMs in basic Spanish - NOW four titles available.
		Lucy Cat at the Beach - book £
		Lucy Cat at the Party - book £
		Lucy Cat at the Farm - book £
		Lucy Cat in Town - book £
		Lucy Cat books only £ each
Children will enjoy re-telling these stories with StoryMaker - easy-to-use software that makes characters move about and speak! They say out loud whatever you have written in Spanish in their speech-bubbles. StoryMaker comes with backgounds and characters for each of these stories (and many more...) Find out more....>
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