From: Mia Soderquist

Off hand, there is basic  vocabulary for baby things and related 
activities in "Teach
Yourself Spanish Vocabulary" (ISBN 0-8442-3986-0). There is also
some of the same in "Spanish English Housekeeping" by Ruth Dietz, a
book mainly designed to help an English-speaking person communicate
with his/her Spanish-speaking housekeeper.  If you are in the US, a
lot of useful vocabulary items can be found on the packaging of baby
stuff that you buy, wherever you find bilingual packaging... The
quality of the translations seems to vary, but it isn't a bad source
for a noun that has escaped you. :)



From: Pam Morelos

I got a book for my daughter that was a big help to me--El Mundo del Bebe.
It is pictures with the names next to them.  It includes colors, animals, .
. . but it also has a page of clothes, toys, and things in their room and
bath.  Helped me some, except that the book is Castillian Spanish, and we
speak Mexican Spanish.  It was a good start though, and my daughter (3)
still enjoys looking at the pictures.
  
I bought it at a Barnes and Noble a while ago (like [1996]).  If you need
help finding it, e-mail me personally and I'll look up the specific
publisher etc.


From: eggleton
I recommend buying/subcribing to some Spanish baby/parenting magazines. They
have articles on varies baby relating issues, and don't cost a lot, maybe you
can even get old ones for free if you know Spanish people with babies. Baby
store catalogues and baby product brochures are good and free as well, and
there are usually lots of free guidance leaflets at baby clinics, doctors' etc.
Maybe somebody could send you some.

 
A Spanish rhyme from the Dominican Republic:
Era una paloma
Punto y coma
Que tenia un nido
Punto y seguido 
Que se llamaba Martes
Punto y apartes
Era un animal 
Punto y final

From Sam

From: "E.L. Easton" 
Subject: Re: Children's Nursery Rhymes & Songs in Spanish

Spanish Songs & Games for Children:  http://www.hevanet.com/dshivers/juegos/

Children's Songs:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1794/childrensspanish.html

Audio/Video Resources for various languages:  

FL Online bookstores that also carry vido:
http://eleaston.com/books/index.html
FL Online bookstores for videos:  http://eleaston.com/books/index.html#videos

Eva Easton
http://eleaston.com

From: Henrik in Amsterdam

This page was mentioned a while ago: http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~fromero/canciones/canciones.html

I don't speak mucho Español, but it seems that that site got a LOT of spanish tunes, not only children-songs by the way.

(From an anonymous benefactor on the biling-fam list)

List of books that may be useful for parents whose native language is English,
and who are talking non-native Spanish to their children

(Note: I can't promise that these books are completely error-free.)

This book is specifically meant to help non-native speakers talk to their children:

Kids Stuff Spanish - Easy Spanish Phrases to Teach your Kids (and Yourself)
Therese Slevin Pirz ISBN 0-9606140-2-8

The following books are useful for terminology of everyday things that
are difficult to find in conventional dictionaries. They are mainly
oriented towards Mexican Spanish.

At home abroad Spanish 
Helen and Nigel Harrison
ISBN 0-658-00295-3
Covers many areas of day-to-day life (including playing the board game Monopoly)
Not much on baby care, but lots of things that come up for older children.

Your Spanish Exchange
Helen and Nigel Harrison
ISBN 1-901609-02-2
(almost the same content as At home abroad Spanish)

El Gran Libro de la Escuela
Ingrid Gordon
ISBN 84-261-2966-8
names of toys, playground items, school items (e.g., tape dispenser,
climbing net, double stroller) that usually aren't in standard
dictionaries

El Pictodiccionario
ISBN 84-294-4545-5
Picture dictionary organized by theme- illustrates nouns and verbs; very colorful.
Names of different train cars, what to call the little bucket you spit
into at the dentist, just to give a couple of examples

El mundo del Bebe
ISBN 0-525-44846-2
a translation of a popular book in English
Shows photos of all sorts of items related to a baby's word, with names
in Spanish

My First Spanish Word Book
Angela Wilkes
This is a picture dictionary with photos of many everyday objects
ISBN 1564582558

Housekeeping in Spanish (tape + booklet)
Barbara Thuro
ISBN 1-56015-113-7
Meant for people in US who hire Spanish-speaking help.
However, it's also useful for answering those annoying questions, like,
just what do you call "oven cleaner" in Spanish. Has a short section 
specifically on child care.

Gardening in Spanish (tape + booklet)
Barbara Thuro
ISBN 1-56015-114-5
Meant for people in US who hire Spanish-speaking help.
However, it covers a lot of household words and phrases (names of tools,
phrases that come up in everyday life out in the yard or around the house).

Household Spanish
William Harvey
ISBN 0-8120-9057-8 (book)
0-8120-8405-5 (book+cassette)
Like the Barbara Thuro items, it covers many terms and phrases used in
everyday life around the house, including some hard to find in dictionaries.
Has a short section on child care.

Outreach Spanish
William Harvey
ISBN 0-7641-1324-0
Meant for people in US who do social services for Spanish-speaking people.
Useful because it includes hard-to-find terms such as: answering machine,
hot water heater, smoke alarm.

Schaum's Outline, Spanish Vocabulary
Conrad J Schmitt
ISBN 0-07-057227-5
Especially the "At Home" chapter.
Names for kitchen and bathroom items, like burner, drainboard, towel rack, colander, 
etc..

The New Oxford Picture Dictionary
EC Parnwell
ISBN 0-19-424355-3
has pages on "The Kitchen", "The Bedroom", "The Baby's Room", and "The
Bathroom".
Picture dictionaries are useful because you can be sure what item they
are giving a word for, whereas in a dictionary with words only, an
English word may have multiple translations, and you don't know which
one you actually want.

The Oxford Picture Dictionary
Shapiro, N
ISBN 0-19-435188-2
This is a completely different book from the Parnwell one, even though
both cover basic terms used in everyday life. 

Other useful books for non-native Spanish speakers:

Guide to Phrasal Verbs (English to Spanish)
Edward R Rosset
84-7873-304-3
Gives translations and examples for English idioms like "to take out",
"to take apart", etc. that come up frequently in day-to-day speech.  
Some of these can also be found in very comprehensive (unabridged)
dictionaries, but it may be useful to have them collected together.

Modismos ingleses para hispanos
(English idioms for Spanish speakers)
0-8120-9458-1
Despite the title, this book is actually very useful for English speakers,
because it gives Spanish equivalents to idioms frequently used by native
English speakers.

Schaum's Communicating in Spanish Volumes I,II,III
Schmitt, Conrad J
0-07-056642-9 (only one of the volumes)
Covers lots of topics in everyday life, although it's oriented more
to adult life than to life at home with children.

Spanish Picture Dictionary
Angela Wilkes
0-8442-7630-8
A sample sentence and picture are given for each word.
It's very basic and meant for children so it covers "child-type"
vocabulary.