My First 100 Ocean Words in English and Spanish

Toddler-PreS–A nonfiction board book series introducing Spanish and English vocabulary through popular early childhood topics. My First 100 Ocean Words begins with a look at the world’s oceans, giving an inclusive global perspective that will appeal to readers from various backgrounds. Smiling ocean creatures are categorized by different environments, such as “Icy Waters/Aguas glaciares,” or characteristics like “Peculiar fish/peces peculiares” and “Spineless creatures/criaturas sin espina.” My First 100 Dino Words (see ISBN 9781948066983) offers delightful and equally nuanced categories, such as “Armor dinos/dinosaurios con armadura” and “Small dinos and bugs/dinosaurios pequeños e insectos,” more complex vocabulary like “herd/manada,” and various dinosaur bone names (fibula/peroné, chevrons/cheurones, ulna/cubito). Dinosaur fans will also relish in the depiction of less familiars dinos, such as Dreadnoughtus or Ceratosaurus, whose names are the same in English and Spanish. In each entry, only a few humans are shown engaging in related settings or occupations, but diversity of skin color is presented. Jobs like “oceanographer/oceanógrafa” and “paleontologist/paleontologa” avoid gender stereotypes and feature females in those roles.