By: Kelly MasonGonzalez, Maya. My Colors, My World/ Mis Colores, Mi Mundo San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 2007.
My Colors, My World/ Mis Colores, Mi Mundo is the story of a girl named Maya in her search to find colors in the world around her. Maya takes you through her world as she searches and finds colors everywhere. For example, she finds a green cactus that is next to her house and went swinging on her red swing. Through Maya the reader is taken on a search of vibrant colors and challenges the reader to see what colors surround them.
The main themes of this book focus on learning bilingual colors and appreciating the world around you. This book encourages readers to look around and see what beautiful colors you can find. The author in the back of the book encourages read to look inside as well as outside for beauty and vibrant colors. Maya wrote and illustrated this text displaying her use of colors to display the beautiful world as she sees it.
Maya Gonzalez set this book up using half Spanish and half English. The text is written in English on one page and the following page is in Spanish. The focus of this text is on the colors. The colors are highlighted and colored in the text for both English and Spanish. This allows the reader to easily see the English word for a color and the Spanish word. In addition, there is a bilingual color glossary in the back of the text.
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