For parents raising bilingual kids who love reading, Spanish, and reading IN Spanish.
We can’t tell you how much we’ve appreciated your business and support over the last year. We have some exciting news and a change we hope you’ll love. We’ve heard your feedback, and for 2018, we will focus primarily on books and therefore we’ve been able to cut the price of our subscription. While we’ve […]
Happy Halloween! I’ve mentioned before that Halloween is slowly growing on me now that I have kids and get to dress them up (and eat their candy after they go to bed). Today I thought I’d share a few ideas for Halloween costumes that were inspired by our favorite books! First up is a mini […]
We were in the library when my daughter handed me a stack of board books that she had pulled from the shelves to read to her. As I absentmindedly picked up the stack, I noticed a book that didn’t look quite like the others: it bilingual, it had all kinds of flaps you could unfold […]
I’m going to confess something. Ready? Día de los muertos is not my favorite holiday. There! I said it! I’m definitely not opposed to remembering and celebrating our ancestors, of course, but I mean… DEATH. In my family we didn’t build altares covered in flor de cempasúchil (although I did very much enjoy the pan […]
“Are you Ecuatoriana or Mexicana?” It’s a question we ask our daughter every once in a while (her answer varies depending on whether she’s feeling more love for her Mexican mom or her Ecuadorian dad…) As a Latina parent in the U.S., I’m always looking for products or services that can help me connect my […]
Are you a podcast listener? I LOVE podcasts and am a total evangelist for my favorite ones (although I sadly haven’t been able to convince Josh, my partner, to get on the podcast bandwagon so maybe not such a great evangelist?). I like listening to them while I do things like sweep and tidy up […]
It’s almost the start of the new school year for some, and maybe your kids will be taking Spanish class (or maybe they’re in a language immersion program, lucky you!). Or perhaps your kids aren’t taking any language classes, but you speak Spanish at home and are raising them bilingually. The benefits of being bilingual […]
No se si lo había mencionado, pero la sede de Sol Book Box es en Phoenix, AZ, donde vivo yo. Hay muchas cosas que me gustan de Phoenix, pero el verano definitivamente no es una de ellas. Ahora que estamos sufriendo temperaturas de 110+ grados Farenheit todos los días, ayudar a que mis niñas amen […]
We’re all about Papá this month (although honestly, with two little daddy’s girls, it kind of feels like we’re all about Papá year-round at the Sol casita). So! I just had to share this little tidbit I came across: a Harvard University study that found that kids who enjoy story time with Dad have better-developed […]
There are a lot of things I didn’t realize before starting Sol Book Box. For example, I didn’t know that every year, the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL for short) happens. It’s the second largest book fair in the world, and is a huge deal in the Spanish-speaking world o’ books. When I […]