• Let's Learn Spanish Coloring book - This is a beautiful coloring book with a vocabulary word for each letter of the Spanish alphabet.  A pronunciation guide is at the back of the book.
  
• The Complete Book of Spanish - This book may still be available at Sam's Club for around $8.  If you get this book, I suggest that you start on page 84 with lessons about colors.  The beginning of the book may be too much grammar for most kids, although mom can read over it to familiarize herself with it.  The bulk of this book is valuable for the fun activities that teach basic vocabulary.  There are cut-out flash cards at the end. 
  
• Bilingual Reading Comprehension - These inexpensive workbooks have a reading comprehension exercise in English on one side of the page, and in Spanish on the other.  Topics include: what is the weather? why are farms important? Colors, Dinosaurs, and The Zoo.  This is a great way to increase vocabulary.  You may want to read and complete first in English, and then in Spanish.  Highlight some key vocabulary, and use the pages to learn some interesting terms.  There are even little drawings that kids can color. 
  
• ¡Hablo Español! - This is a reproducible cut & color activity book full of fun, hands-on ideas for Spanish learning.  For example, kids learn the names of fruits, color the pictures, cut them out, and put them in a little basket.  Kids color a backpack, and then color & cut school supplies to fill it up.
• 25 Spanish Emergent Reader Mini-Books - This product was not designed to teach Spanish, it is designed to teach Spanish kids to read.  Like other emergent reader material, it has a lot of repetition and context clues.  The 25 little readers can keep you busy for a long time, plus they are fun for the kids to color.  Scholastic also publishes a similar book of English-Spanish bilingual readers.
  
• Spanish Every Day - This volume was designed with the older elementary/junior high student in mind.  However, it is a great springboard for a parent who would like to pull vocab and lesson ideas from the book and teach them to younger children.  Cut-out flash cards are offered in the back.
  
• Say Hola to Spanish - This book, and others in its series are great vocabulary builders for visual learners.  The Spanish is woven into English text, and the pages often rhyme.  Cute illustrations provide context clues and reinforce memorization.  Look for other books in this series by the same author!
  
• The cheap used Spanish book that you pick up at a curriculum sale - yes, for a super-low price, these can be surprisingly useful.  Use them for vocab, lesson ideas, grammar explanations, and a springboard to cultural lessons.  These books can be well worth the change in your pocket.

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