The Birthday Book / Las Mananitas: A Bilingual Lift-the-Flap Book

by Susie Jaramillo

Overview

Canticos announces The Birthday Book / Las Mañanitas as part of its original Canticos Classics collection, the precursor to the Emmy-nominated, award-winning bilingual preschool series Canticos.

Based on the traditional Mexican birthday song Las Mañanitas, sing and learn about birthday celebrations, in both English and Spanish. Complete with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, this book is a great way to make learning with your little chickie special and unique in not one, but two languages.

Concept: Song, Birthday.

Format:
• 6" x 6" board book format perfect for little readers.
• English and Spanish on the same spread.
• Interactive lift-the-flap.
• "This book belongs to" page to personalize with a child’s name.

"Canticos resonates with parents who want to raise multilingual children through quality, appealing content." — NBC

"Good books not only teach your child about different cultures and their traditions, they are also a great way to help your child pick up new vocabulary and information about different regions around the world. Canticos...is a great place to start" — Motherly

"Susie Jaramillo created a media company with an educational, cross-cultural, and intergenerational mission." — School Library Journal

"¿Qué hacer cuando los niños no quieren dormir? La colección bilingüe Canticos de Susie Jaramillo reúne tiernas canciones de cuna de nuestra infancia." — People en Español

Children can also watch our bilingual videos on the Canticos channel!

Beloved by kids, parents and educators, Canticos is the #1 bilingual preschool brand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945635168
Publisher:	Encantos
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Series:	Canticos Series
Edition description:	Bilingual: Spanish-English
Pages:	16
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 6 Years

About the Author

Susie Jaramillo is a mom, an artist and a creative director raising two bilingual children. She worked for many years in advertising having co-founded the vox collective, a NY-based boutique multicultural agency where she served as Chief Creative Officer until 2012. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn where she majored in painting and illustration.

Susie grew up between Venezuela and the United States, always going back and forth fluently between cultures. As a child, she was exposed to songs and traditions from both the United States and Latin America. To bring to life all the things she loved about her Latino culture she created Canticos and now kids of all ages can enjoy these nursery rhymes and songs! She lives in Brooklyn.

Reading Group Guide

English

Today’s the day, and it’s the morning. You get treated like a king. Cause this morning it’s your birthday. Your praises we’re going to sing. Come on, its time to get up now. Come see how the day turns bright. All the sparrows sing about you the moon has gone nighty – night.

Spanish

Estas son las mañanitas, que cantaba el Rey David. Hoy por ser tu cumpleaños, te las cantamos a ti. Despierta, mi bien, despierta, mira que ya amaneció. Ya los pajarillos cantan, la luna ya se metió.

Editorial Reviews

The high-quality construction and simple elegance of the book make it excellent for a gift for a beloved child.” —Latinx In Kidlit

“Just what we’ve been waiting for. Bright and cheery, these simple and sturdy bilingual books are great fun to read aloud and come with a lift-the-flap bonus. Thank you, Canticos!” —Valerie Lewis, Owner, Hicklebee’s Children’s Bookstore

From the Publisher

01/01/2018
Baby-Toddler—The enchanting bilingual nursery rhyme series gets a more circulation-friendly makeover. Each lift-the-flap volume presents a traditional Latin American song with bright images of charming animal characters and plenty of white space. As in the earlier, accordian-style editions, the English translations are accessible and elegantly done. The English text can be found on the verso in a bold black font, and the Spanish text is located on the recto, in gray. Interactive flaps and sing-along apps for each make these ideal for storytimes and one-on-one lapsits. The smaller trim size is just right for little hands. These candy-colored entries are even more inviting than the original versions.—Shelley M. Diaz, School Library Journal

School Library Journal

2017-05-24
The traditional song sung for birthdays in Mexico is presented with an American twist at the end. In this new addition to the Canticos series, Jaramillo has kept to her successful concertina format. The book can be read in Spanish on one side and in English on the other. When someone is celebrating their birthday in Mexico, they are traditionally greeted with "Las mañanitas." According to the song, this was the way that King David greeted the morning, and because it is your birthday we will sing it to you. This bilingual presentation of the song remains faithful to the original in Spanish but has taken a few liberties with the English translation to accommodate for rhyme and meter, always a fine line to walk when translating a song. In both languages the song segues right into the American song traditionally sung at birthday times, the newly copyright-free "Happy Birthday." Young children will find a few flaps to open—such as a window that, when lifted, reveals a rooster crowing at daybreak—that will add to their delight. In the "Happy Birthday" part there is a blank banner in which the name of the birthday child can be inscribed. Not quite as successful as the previous entries but still a charming addition to the series. (Board book. 1-5)

Kirkus Reviews