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Book review: ‘Lonely Planet First Words Mandarin’

Bilingual English-Mandarin, from 4yo.

Let’s learn our first everyday words in Mandarin with this great book. A word on one page written in both languages with also the Mandarin version spelled out phonetically for easier pronunciation and on the other page is the colourful illustration of the word.

To obtain the the full list of the words you can either scan the QR code or simply visit the Lonely Planet’s website. Let’s get ready fr our next trip to China.

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Book review: ‘Filastrocche Italiane vol2’

Bilingual English-Italian, from 0yo.

Sing along with this second volume of your favourite Italian rhyme. Includes bilingual lyrics of nursery rhymes and lullabies, such as ‘Alla Fonte del Re’, play rhymes, such as ‘Giro giro tondo”, children’s songs, such as ‘Maramao’ and tongue twisters, such as ‘Apelle’ and many more…

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Book review: ‘ABC des animaux’

In French, from 2yo.

Beautifully illustrated, this book is great to learn the abc and know about the animals. Discover an animal for each letter of the alphabet. The right page with the cut out letter unfold on gorgeous animal illustrations and a short text.

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Book review: ‘Ottavia e i gatti di Roma’

Bilingual English-Italian, from 4 yo.

Ottavia is a young cat who lives with her parents in the Colosseum. Everyday cat ladies come and bring them food. One day while playing with her cousin she decides to explore the city. Let’s  follow these two young explorers and do some sightseeing of this beautiful city. Discover the Colosseum, the Capitoline Museum, the Trevi fountain, the Castle of the Holy Angel, Saint Peter’s Square and many more…

Great resources to learn about the language and the culture. It comes with a fun facts about Rome in both languages.

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Book review: ‘We are going on a bear hunt’

Bilingual English-Portuguese/Arabic/Farsi, from 4yo.

This classic loved by little ones around the world is one of our favourites. parents are not home so the children decide to go on a bear hunt. They have to go through high grass, a deep river, a dark forest and so on until they reach a gloomy cave. There they find a big bear…..oh no! the bear is chasing them, they have to hurry up and get home safely.

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Book review: ‘Cuando las cosas se mueven’

In Spanish from 5yo.

Oh no!!!!! There is an earthquake! Hold on, it is just the hippo yawning. Ohhh nooo!!! another earthquake!! No, it is just hippo walking.

It seems that every time hippo does anything the jungle shakes and rumbles.

You will lobe the beautiful illustrations and funny story of the hippo who get everyone shaking.

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Book review: ‘Girar a la tortuga’

In Spanish, from 5yo.

Tortoise is stuck her back. Her friends one after the other come to helper flip back on her legs but it is not until ant arrives that they succeed. A gorgeous story of friendship and how helping each other makes everyone happy.

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Book review: ‘Submarino al rescate!’

In Spanish, from 2yo.

Gorgeous pop down book. A fishing boat return to the wharf with bad news. A dolphin is stuck in a fishing net. No time to lose for Captain Panda and his crew. Let’s get the submarine ready to go and save the dolphin.

What adventures are awaiting them on their way to save the dolphin? Will they get there on time?

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Book review: ‘The Zazoo: Let’s discover London!’

Bilingual English-French, from 2yo.

Let’s visit London with this bilingual book. The Zazoos will take you the landmarks of this beautiful city, such as Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Picadilly Circus ….while riding the tube, a double Decker or a black cab.

Each character speaks a language, one character will say something in English and the other will reply in French. There are no translation, the child understands with the cues provided by the English part but also with the illustrations.

Also does with a page of vocabulary in both languages as well as free activities to download.

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