Baby Babas: A Bilingual Storybook for Children of All Ages

Baby Babas is the first title from the creative team at Babas Bilingual Books. It's a bilingual storybook of a and her Boy - the Babas Reading Team - and takes the reader along on a reading-dog-with-a-job visit to an elementary school. Babas is an old lady now and falls asleep after her and her boy settle in. In her sleep she dreams about the day she first met her boy. He found her at Lake Atitlán in Guatemala and adventure ensued. All titles from Babas Bilingual Books are a different kind of . The author is a bilingual language arts professional educator and literacy coach, and works in consultation with his mother - a veteran of three decades teaching reading and teaching reading teachers. The illustrations were created by Cuban national who lives and works in Havana. Eduardo is a respected, award winning painter and sculptor in Havana and Haiti, but has very limited access to the international market. This creative collaboration provides him with an income allowing for more of his time to be spent doing art and gaining exposure. The text is . It is . Bianca Villasante also lives with her family in Havana, Cuba. . The beginning and end of the story are calibrated to the end of and focus on fluency and mastery of complex grammatical conventions. The middle of the book, when Babas dreams, is The text is written in a special font specifically designed to be more easily read by children and the two languages are color coded using a method made famous by the Gomez and Gomez dual language educational model. Baby Babas is a It aims to impart the ever more important lessons of compassion and companionship to the children of all ages who might read it. Tag along on a day in the lives of Babas and her boy as they use their relationship and skills to teach compassion and reading, , to the next generation of dual language learners in Austin, Texas and beyond!