Say Hello!

This book teaches children the value in communicating with neighbors in their native languages... it’s fun and the illustrations are beautiful and really interesting and intriguing. This book illustrates the joy of language, and friendship- I love this book.

Carmelita, her mother, and their dog Manny take a walk in the neighborhood and say hello to all the people they meet, in the array of languages found in a cosmopolitan city. Simple and sweet, with Isadora's signature collage illustrations.

Nothing really incredibly new here, but cute illustrations; and I loved that one of the multilingual hellos is the dog's "woof" on each page.

It follows Carmelita, a young girl with a colorful neighborhood. As she walks with her mom and her dog, Manny, they greet people from various cultures, each saying hello in their respective languages. The book emphasizes the joy of language and celebrates diversity.

A great multilingual board book featuring vignettes ofa girl named Carmelita and her mom, and dog, Manny, walking around different multiracial neighborhoods and normalizing, practicing how to say "Hello." Very cute and informative. Definitvely going to use this in my baby/toddler storytimes and attempt to get the caregivers and some of the toddlers to repeat the phrases with me.

I enjoyed this picture book for two reasons. First, the language is very diverse and fun to read. The book makes it easy for students of different cultures to understand other languages. For example, a word such as hello is on a page along with other languages version of hello. The characters are also very believable as they portray a community rich in diversity and different cultures. This is a great message to promote within classrooms at a young age. The main idea of this book is to introduce language diversity to young readers.

With a theme of being happy and being different, this is a diverse book with a simple story about a mother, her daughter, the dog, and a multicultural neighborhood. It is easy to read and has beautiful illustrations. It has the words hello in different languages and should leave children knowing that some people are different from them yet the same. Some make speak differently, but they are still people like them. I really recommend this book as it can be used by teachers and parents to teach valuable lessons about self identity and meeting new friends.