DLee's Shapely Imagination

Diana Lee Santamaria, an early childhood educator with a master's degree and eight years of classroom experience, built this bilingual preschool book to do a specific job: teach shapes in both English and Spanish through rhyming text, vivid illustrations, and an imaginative story following DLee and her cat Mr. Mustache. The bilingual side-by-side format serves diverse families and dual-language classrooms well, and Santamaria's education background shows in the age-appropriate pacing. The honest caveat is that this is primarily a concept book rather than a narrative — it functions as a shape-identification guide with a friendly framing rather than a developed story. As an independently published title, distribution and formal critical coverage are limited. For bilingual preschool families and educators, it is a solid, purposeful choice.