Children Spanish Books for Beginners

Almost half through the year, I am seriously keeping my promise of improving my Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, at a level allowing me to pass the European B2 - with an aim at C1 - certification tests. Plus, started learning a new language, but this for another time.

For my Spanish warming up, I´ve read recently two children books, in bilingual version, with an interesting neurodivergent take. It is very important for neurodivergent children to relate to characters sharing their own issues, and for me it was a first time encountering such characters in children books. A plus for the bilingual aspect.

The author of both books, Eleni Tassopoulos Wehner is herself a ´neurodivergent mother´, and this probably helped to properly represent such situations. Both books were colourfully illustrated by Danamarie Hosler. The main characters, Roscoe&Ivy are faced with dealing with daily chores, like cleaning the room, or organising the shoes, or finding/trying the best house shoes.

The books are part of the Roscoe&Ivy series, but can defintely read as standalone. The sentences are clean, unequivocal, using sentences and expressions useful for the daily communication. The text goes along nicely with the illustrations. 

I really loved the books, and even learned a word or two. They can be nicely used as good night stories for bilingual children, and it also creates topics to discuss afterwards, either commenting the characters or their actions.