My Name is Celia/ Me llamo Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz / La vida de Celia Cruz

My students loved this story! I personally loved that is bilingual! Lovely, easy to read to help students learn about this musical icon!

I love that this book is in Spanish and English. The story is engaging and inspires young children to explore their talents. I enjoyed reading about Celia.

This book is well illustrated and the illustrations are very colorful and vivid just as Celia Cruz was as an entertainer! I can share this book with young people and the young at heart. As an educator and librarian that specializes in children's, tweens and teens resources I felt that it was a good buy and could be used for readers with high comprehension but managing the challenge of reading. If you want to learn more about the Cuban born singer, this is a great place to start.

I bought this and a few other Luna Rising books for my students in Spanish one and two. The fact that they are bilingual makes them less intimidating. The illustrations are wonderful and they get a sort of mini biography of "la reina de música" Celia Cruz. This is the first bilingual book that I've read in which I was thoroughly captivated by both the written story and the illustrations. I love this book. I use this and other picture books to facilitate reading and language comprehension while at the same breaking away from the text book.For native speakers it is not particularly difficult, as it is a children's book, but for non native learners the language used is a bit challenging at times. Which is where the bilingual part comes in really handy. It also helps for the intermediate learners, when illustrating that translation is not always 100 % word for word. Overall this book is great just to read in English or Spanish and as a teaching tool if you are up to the challenge. It is absolutely entertaining and educational all at once. It is a great addition to any home or classroom library.

You can hear and feel the rhythm in the words and language of this book. It is beautifully illustrated with colorful and child friendly pictures of Celia and her surroundings! I also love that it is a bilingual book! I love Celia and my students love her as well now too!

This is the second time I bought this book. I bought it as a gift for the librarian at my school. I teach 4th grade, and I think this is a great addition to any classroom library. The illustrations are gorgeous, and I love that it is written in Spanish and English.

My girls love this book. The illustrations are so bright and mesmerizing. I like the storyline but the girls focus on telling me about the images that they see on each page. I also love the way that the book isn't small like most children's books. It actually has a story line and is greater than 10 pages. Now that my girls are 3, they like me to read longer than 5 minutes. I would definitely recommend this book.

The bilingual My Name is Celia would be worth buying just for the illustrations by Rafael Lopez. As a teacher who works with Spanish-speaking students, the book provides information on Cuban culture as well as on Celia, a popular Latin artist. Having two languages allows Spanish-speaking students to learn English and in turn, allows English-speaking students to build their Spanish vocabulary. This book was popular with my students, and I would recommend it for any classroom, but particularly those with an enrollment that icnludes Spanish-speaking students.

On a aimé le fait que le livre est bilingue. Les illustrations sont vraiment belles!

It was in better used condition than I expected. It used to be a library book. Excellent book for teaching kids about the lives of important musicians; those musicians who made an impact in our music history.

Me encanto que sea en dos idiomas y muy divertido para los niños.

Das Buch ist von vorn bis hinten einfach nur super niedlich gestaltet und es macht Spaß zu lesen.

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