Cover Image: My Cat is Sad / Mi gato esta triste

My Cat is Sad / Mi gato esta triste

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I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a simple easy reader/beginning to read book. Fun colorful pictures and repetitive words will make it a fun learning tool. The addition of Spanish text helps children learn another language.

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The vocabulary and the story structure - both in English and Spanish - are very basic and it might help only for kids at a very small age - maximum 3. The illustrations are not outstanding either. Overall, it is an useful book - including if you want to learn some more Spanish, but not an essential one. Just one of the many.

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A bilingual book. Each line of English text appear above translated Spanish text. A little boy tries to figure out what is making his cat so sad/triste. The cat/gato isn't hungry for food, thirsty for water, cold needing a blanket, dirty needing a bath, tired needing to go to bed, or scared needing a friend. The boy's final gesture of providing a friend--a dog--makes the cat not only sad, but mad too! A fun ending.

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To begin with, the file I received contained only pictures. No text to go along with them. So, initially, I thought it was one of those wordless picture books, which I've read and enjoyed in the past. However, using the Look Inside feature on Amazon, I was able to determine that there should have been text captions along with each image. After reviewing the handful of pages available for viewing on Amazon, my feelings about the book remained the same. Simply put, this is not a book I would recommend or consider purchasing. I feel terrible saying that, but it's true. The illustrations were severely lacking. And while I understand this is supposed to be an early reader (hence the very basic sentence structure), there are many, many early readers available on the market that are a great deal more interesting and appealing than this one.

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This is a simple bilingual book about a boy and his amazingly patient pet cat. The artwork is cute and basic, while being reasonably expressive.

The limited and repeated vocabulary used should help young readers to pick up some useful colloquial phrases to communicate such things as mood, hunger or thirst and a few other basic needs.

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Cute illustrations and I liked that it is bilingual, but I ended up feeling sad myself (estaba triste) because of the treatment of the poor cat (pobrecito gatito!).

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This book was really great! I liked that it had a repetitive line that wasn't annoying. It was simple yet really helpful and informative. It was nice to not know too much Spanish and to be able to follow along. English sentences were on top and the Spanish sentences were on the bottom so it made it easy to know how they correspond. It would be a great resource to help children become bilingual.

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This was such an adorable read with a bilingual twist. This is the second children's book I have reviewed because I decided I wanted to start reviewing children's books as well since i an raising my kids to love books as much as I do.

My two oldest want to learn Spanish so this book is a complete gem. It is written in English and in Spanish so it introduced a new and fun way to read and learn a second language for children. This is phenomenal because being able to speak a second language has so many benefits for children.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this ARC. My children and I are now going to start our journey into learning Spanish!

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This book was ok.

I am always looking for cute children's books to give to friends, but this is not a book I will be purchasing for anyone.
In my opinion a great children's book will come down to the illustrations and this one reused the same drawings repeatedly and the drawing itself was not great.

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A great easy reader for children in both English and Spanish, and funny to read! Looking forward to sharing this with children at the library, a really accessible book!

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Kid thinks his cat is sad and tries all manner of ideas to bring it out of its supposed funk. It looks more like the kid is what made the cat sad—and mad—with all his shenanigans, until at the end he finally gets it right.
This cat on the cover does not look sad at all. If anything, it looks angry, claws halfway out. Once in the book the cat appears to be sleeping, except when interrupted by another erroneous idea from its human.
Before each new idea there’s the repetition of the kid saying the cat is sad and the cat sleeping, so the book’s even shorter than it looks.
If this is supposed to teach a kid not to jump to conclusions, then I’m all for it. If it was meant as something else, I totally missed it.

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This simple picture book story is about a young child who is trying to figure out what to do to make his cat happier. Bilingual, easy to read and fun, this is a good book for beginning readers.

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I am self teaching myself Spanish and reading children's fiction in Spanish is a good way to make sure i know common phrases.

Not sure if my copy is wrong, but it only has 33 pages and the story doesn't really "end". I liked it thou, the pictures are cute and the phrases are small and simple, good for someone learning basic Spanish.

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A cute, albeit short book that has English and Spanish together. Worked fine on my kindle, and thought the story was sweet. My grandchild wanted me to read it again and again. Liked the story, the images and the words. Although short, as I mentioned, not sure how long I would like a children's book to be anyway. Highly recommend this book.

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Cute bilingual story time about a boy trying to make his car not sad. Great way to incorporate bilingual reading with small children

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This children's is very simple to follow in English and Spanish. The illustrations could be a bit more creative as well as the text. Very repetitive. It also ended pretty abruptly maybe I didn't get the completed text.
Thank you Netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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The copy was provided by netgalley. Sadly something is wrong with the formatting for kindle version didn’t show any content and EPUB showed only a couple of pictures

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