Easy Spanish Word Games & Puzzles

Rating:
Summary: interesting and fun, not a children's book
Review: I've been studing Spanish on my own for about a year, using tapes and textbooks. I think this book is suitable for anyone with some background in Spanish, either through classes or self study. This book has 40 anagrams and acrostics that use Spanish exclusively. The preface to the book is in English, but the rest of the book is in Spanish. I was able to complete all the puzzles in the book, with the help of a Spanish - English dictionary. (There are Spanish-English and English-Spanish glossaries in the back of this book, though). I learned some new words and had fun, too. This book is a good value.

There is an answer key in the back. The only reason I didn't rate it as 5, is that the answers are not translated to English. Each puzzle results in a phrase or sentence in Spanish, and at my level anyway, just because I know what all the words in a sentence mean, doesn't mean I can understand the sentence! Most the solutions I could understand, but a few at the end I can't make sense of (yet, anyway).

I don't know why the reading level is said ... to be ages 4 to 8, because I would suggest it for high school and above.

Rating:
Summary: Fun, but expensive
Review: You won't really increase your vocab much with this book because nothing is in meaningful context, but the puzzles are fun to do. However, for what is essentially a Dell-type puzzle book, it's too expensive for so few puzzles. The publisher should put out this type of book on cheaper paper and sell them the way English puzzle books are sold in the states (and as Spanish puzzle books are sold here in Mexico).