This informal text, accompanied by more than 400 cartoon-style
illustrations, is designed to teach the basics of practical
conversational Spanish to all family members, with special focus on
instructing younger children. The book recounts a typical day in
children's lives, starting as they wake up in the morning and concluding
at their bedtime. The illustrations on every page reinforce vocabulary
retention and clarify word meanings. Boys and girls pick up new words,
phrases, and language skills as they follow a day's events, starting in
their bedrooms (toys, clothing, numbers) and moving through the house
(names of family members, rooms, furniture). In the kitchen they learn
Spanish words for appliances and food. Once outside, they walk along the
street and pick up words for workers, cars, trucks, buses, and more. At
school they learn Spanish words for objects in the playground and inside
the classroom. Back home again and ready for dinner, they learn more
Spanish words until bedtime. This new second edition includes expanded
vocabulary.