Dom and I love to read together.  Rather, I read while he flips the pages so quickly that I can’t keep up.  Same difference.

We check anywhere from 5 – 15 children’s books out of the library each week.  We also have an extensive children’s collection on our own bookshelves.  There are some books that Dom and I love so much that I want to share them with other parents.  So I figure that I’ll do that once a week or so.  Here is this week’s book corner…

Tito, the Firefighter
Tito, el Bombero
by Tim Hoppey

This is my last firefighter book review for a long time.  I promise.  This is one of Dom’s current favorite subjects, though, so I am just sharing as we read.  I am sure there will be a series of train book reviews coming soon.

Bilingualism is all the rage these days.  Corporations pay bilingual employees a premium for their language skills, signs are displayed in a variety of languages, and babies can take language classes as young as three months (no, I am not kidding.  Just check your Families Only magazine when it shows up). 

This book is in English, but certain phrases are repeated in Spanish (the font for the Spanish terms is bright red and italicized).  The last page contains a translation vocabulary of the Spanish terms used in the story.

The book is about Tito, a little boy who, through circumstance, becomes a firefighter for a day.  An example of the English/Spanish phrasing:

I could tell something was
Very wrong.  Something
Was muy mal.

An added bonus is that this book got it right – there is a female firefighter, complete with a red ponytail.  Between this book and Dora, Dom will be speaking Spanish in no time.