READER

I choose this book because I think that a lot of time we focus in theoretical context like numbers, shapes,… but who teach them about their feelings? I think that knowing about happiness, anger, fear,… is as important as knowing how to add or make patrons.

In the original book Ana Llenas uses the book to talk about feelings and how to differentiate them. She does it connecting feeling with colors something that from my point of view it is a great idea. Because a lot of times in early ages children don't know how to express what they feel or which emotion is the one they are feeling at that moment.

But as we learned in class this book can be a little tricky for second language learners for this reason I did an adaptation making a Reader from it.

To make the reader I kept in mind the vocabulary, grammar, plot, etc.

First of all I decided to shorten the plot, I did it focusing only in linking each colour with their feeling. The next step I took was changing the structure of the sentences, because from my point of view there are some phrases that are very long and complicated to understand for a second language learner. The next thing that I made was focus in the glossary and vocabulary, I decide to change some words, because I rather use some easy and diary words than  use old-fashioned synonyms. But to make it clear and easy to understand I decided to include a vocabulary glossary at the end.

One of the most complicated step was illustrating the book because I love Ana Llenas illustrations and I didn't wanted the book to lose the essence and the magic that it has. For this reason I decided to do a textures book doing a texture collage like you can see in the followings photos: