This book served its purpose: improve my vocabulary with some support. The second portion of Mexican history was very well done. I lost a little momentum in the third portion, but definitely will look for other books similar to this to build my beginning Spanish abilities.

This book was an excellent resource for my personal studies in Spanish. I loved the way the vocabulary and verb tenses progressed throughout the text. It greatly improved my reading ability in Spanish. I highly recommend this book.

By the time I got to the last section of this book, there was very little that I could actually understand. However, I was pleased to find out that I actually have a larger Spanish vocabulary than I thought I did.

Hopefully, if I actually manage to stick with trying to learn Spanish, in the future I might be able to go through this book and understand a little more.

Great book. After years of struggling I found this book. Reading Spanish has helped me tremendously. I read better than I speak, but hey, I also speak better than I did before I found this book.

A very good way to practice your Spanish!

I feel like it served its purpose for me (new vocab and getting used to reading). I think I liked the last part best, but I'm also studying Literature. I got this because I'm doing Spanish on Duolingo and wanted something to use to continue practicing outside of the app.

I taught myself Spanish with this book when I was ten years old. There are no grammar explanations or exercises, just basic readings with short vocabulary lists for each one.

I found a copy of the new revised edition (1964) in a used bookstore. It is, as you might imagine, pretty racist and sexist, and the Spanish it teaches is pretty formal and old-fashioned. But I've never found a better way of learning a language - I wish I could find the same sort of book for other languages!

yayyyyyyyyy finished summer homework for this ^_^

Great for Spanish learners. Liked the stories and the vocabulary makes it easy to learn and review new words. Highly recommend this book!

Easy and fun way to learn new vocabulary and a great range of difficulty

A great progression through Spanish reading. The section on Mexican history was really interesting, which made the learning process much more enjoyable.