Palavras, Palabras gathers short stories written in Portuguese and Spanish that play with “false friends”: words that look identical or very similar in both languages but carry quite different meanings. Written by Lucio Luiz with illustrations by Bianca Pinheiro, the book invites children to discover, in a playful way, how the same sound can mislead someone moving between the two languages.
Published by Marsupial Editora on June 6, 2015, with 40 pages, the book is bilingual by design, pairing Portuguese and Spanish side by side right in its title.