Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Book Review = Cali's Fun Bilingual Tales: 5-Minute Stories in Spanish and English by Jorja Colley & Vicky Lommatzsch

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As someone who speaks a tiny bit of Spanish, but wants to improve conversational Spanish without sitting through boring classes, this is a nice book. And I enjoy reading it with little kids because the stories are really just 5 minutes and have side by side English and Spanish. The sentence structure is easy and specific words that may be more difficult are listed at the beginning. This book is geared towards little kids who either may be bilingual or whose parents try to rear them speaking both English and Spanish.

But as an adult, I found this book also good to learn basic Spanish in a fun way and refresh and also improve my Spanish skills that ae a little bit rusty.  

The stories cover topics such as a day at school, including, vacation time and recipes from Grandma. The scenarios are picked for every day and are very relatable.  This makes the book perfect to read as a family or for the learner to read and learn on their own. 

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Not to forget, the illustrations are fun too and again very relatable. Supporting the topic in a way that makes grasping the content easy. These 15 stories are fun and can be reread, perfect for bedtime or whenever you have keep a kid entertained for a little bit. 
 

The opinions expressed are my own and only reflect my personal impression of a product or book.  No financial compensation was received, but I was provided with a free copy of the book for review purposes.