This book is a bilingual Spanish-English version of the popular nature theme picture book by Rebecca Bielawski, Bees Like Flowers, available on our home page.
We hope you enjoy it!
If your children are bi-lingual, Spanish speaking and learning English at school, or vice versa and learning Spanish at school, there are quite a few more great free Spanish and bilingual Spanish-English children’s picture books in our Spanish category.
Children’s picture books make a perfect starting point for learning a language for any age, since the simple language makes them much easier to understand for beginners.
Text and Images from La Abeja y La Flor Bilingual Spanish version
A las abejas les gustan las flores.
¡Mira! ¡Aquí viene una!
Bees like flowers.
Look! Here comes one!
Tiene un cuerpo peludo,
pero no la toques porque…
She has a fluffy body,
but don’t touch her because…
puede picar
si le das un susto.
she can sting
if you give her a fright.
Yo no las molesto. I don’t bother them.
Están trabajando. They are working.
Solo las miro… I just watch them…
<end of sample – Spanish-English bilingual picture nature theme book>
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Wonderful book. There needs to be more books like this for those of us who are learning a new language. An educational story with English subtitles make it a perfect learning experience.
Perfect amount of difficulty for kids starting to read in Spanish.
I really enjoyed this book being in BOTH English and Spanish. I also like the fact that this book is non-fiction. There are not too many non-fiction books out there for lower level readers, especially in Spanish. Thank you very much for this online free book.
Hi, please search the site for Mustard Seed books – they have quite a few bilingual Spanish ones too, Danielle Check the Spanish versions of books we have in English here: https://freekidsbooks.org/subject/files/foreign-language/Spanish/