Bronxtones

by Alex Rivera, Alex Rivera (Illustrator)

Overview

A new bilingual board book that introduces the youngest of readers to the COLORS of the Bronx!

Where can you find your best friend playing with a RED balloon, tamales from your favorite GREEN cart, or YELLOW pineapple raspados? The Bronx! Bronxtones, the first board book in a new series, teaches young readers about colors through the vibrant palette of the Bronx, as captured by Bronx native Alex Rivera's eye-catching photographs and creative design. The small square trim (7" x 7") and sturdy pages are a perfect format for toddlers, and the content inside promotes language acquisition and concept learning in both English and Spanish. Curl up with your little one for a bilingual story time that helps them reach important developmental milestones.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593110799
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Series:	Bronx Baby
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	14
Lexile:	AD460L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Alex Rivera is the owner and founder of the Bronxer LLC. He was born near Mosholu Parkway, raised in Hunts Point, and spent his days near the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Alex pursued his love of art and design at Bronx Community College and immediately started working in the art world. Through his photography and illustration, Alex hopes to show the raw beauty of the Bronx and change the way the Bronx is perceived at home and abroad. His work has been featured in photography books like Streets of New York, and he's in the process of starting a photo walk program for kids in the Bronx. Bronxtones and Bronxshapes are his first books for children.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Bronx Baby series:


"These bilingual board books showcase vibrant photographs and effortless narratives, which will help young children identify what they see in their everyday lives and strengthen early knowledge of geometry and colors." 
—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

08/14/2020

PreS-K—These informational, bilingual board books offer a taste of shapes and colors. Children are challenged to think outside the box. The texts use color-coded words to identify the names of shapes and colors. The three-line paragraphs feature medium-sized font in black type. Vivid, close-up photographs depict flowers, places, objects, and children and adults of color from the Bronx. Throughout the text, readers are invited to make connections between objects and places that resemble shapes as well as recognize the colors that appear in their daily lives. These board books may be used in an interactive preschool story time or as part of a kindergarten unit covering shapes and colors. VERDICT These bilingual board books showcase vibrant photographs and effortless narratives, which will help young children identify what they see in their everyday lives and strengthen early knowledge of geometry and colors.—Kathia Ibacache, Univ. of Colorado Boulder

School Library Journal

2020-10-27
A photographer born and resident in the Bronx offers glimpses of his borough’s places and people.

Rivera styles himself “The Bronxer” on his website and social media. Though only some of the captions (“Bruckner Orange,” “174th Violet”) place his eight sunny but generic outdoor scenes in any specific locale, still the cute young children of color in most of them supply plenty of charisma. In a bilingual narrative on each recto, equally generic English lines over Spanish highlight colors in the facing photo with changes of hue: “We buy tamales from the green cart. / Compramos tamales del carrito verde.” An intrusive white Polaroid-style frame collaged into each photo serves no evident purpose beyond framing one element of the composition and supplying a place for a caption, brand emblem, and an ID number. This gives this board-book minigallery a commercial feel…but it’s never a bad thing to celebrate the fact that there’s more to New York City’s northerly reaches than a zoo and a baseball stadium.

More tribute than tour, but diapered viewers, Bronxers or not, will respond to the bright colors and faces. (Board book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews