Author: Le Toboggan

Book + CD.

RRP A$22.00

Children like dancing and singing. Why not learn or reinforce a new language by singing?

The rhymes, the gestures and the illustrations will help memorise the vocabulary. Children will love ‘lifting their head, their knee….’.

All the basic vocabulary is in the songs, from the ‘hola’ to ‘where are you going?’ or ‘how are you?’.

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Book and CD. Portuguese only.

Children will enjoy learning or reinforcing their Portuguese vocabulary while singing along. The book and CD contain songs on numbers, shapes, colours, letters …

The rhyming of the songs will assist with the memorisation of the words.

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Portuguese only.

RRP $23.50

First words book with beautiful illustrations. Great book to expand your child’s everyday vocabulary on animals, family and friends, food and beverages, at home, my body, my clothes, summer, activities, at the farm, transport vehicles, bedtime, colours and numbers.

The colours and illustrations will stimulate your child’s natural curiosity.

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Recipe book for children 4+.

RRP A$23.00

This book is in English but there are instructions inside the book to download the French translation, the audio version so you can cook and listen to the recipe at the same time.

Great way to keep the children entertained and learn new words. They will love all the 37 French and American recipes.

Some of my favourite recipes:

Breakfast => French toast and crêpes d’Annette

Lunch & Dinner => Quiche Lorraine, Guacamole, Croque-monsieur

Snacks => Ants on a log, gâteau au yaourt

Desserts => Mousse au chocolat, No bake cheesecake

Get ready for a ‘délicieuse’ afternoon.

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Bilingual book English – Spanish

RRP $12.00

This activity book will make it fun to learn Spanish. It goes by theme, such as ‘the kitchen/la cocina’, ‘family/la familia’, ‘the bedroom/el dormitorio’, etc… you get the main picture for the context and for the details one picture with a single object and a single word vocabulary. Some of these individual pictures only have the shape of the object and require the child to find the correct sticker.

It is interactive and demands more of the child’s participation in the language learning. He is not just observing but he also has to identify which items are missing and get the correct sticker.

There are over 100 reusable stickers.

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In German only. From 3 years old.

Knacke and Taps are best friends. Together they grow strawberries in a small garden. One day, however, the ripe fruits are gone and trouble starts.

Both friends accuse each other of having eaten the fruit and not want to be friends anymore! Then they remember how many beautiful moments they spent together and how precious their friendship was. Will they be friends again?

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Bilingual English-Russian

Anton is a young boy with a talent for music. He lives in Saint-Petersburg, a city very proud of its arts. Follow Anton through his day from the time he wakes up to the strains of ‘Swan lake’ being played at the piano, the school trip to the Hermitage museum and his violin practice.

Stunning collage illustrations.

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Bilingual: Tagalog-English

It is always difficult when a family goes through a divorce. The story is told through the child’s perspective and delves with the pros and cons of sharing the week between the homes of separated parents.

Despite having different rules and routines both homes are loving and happy environments for the children.

When the question “Why can’t both parents live in the same place?” comes up. Both mom and dad give poetic and sweet answers.

At the end the whole family gathers to celebrate together the narrator’s 6th birthday.

Papa’s House, Mama’s House was the 2004 Grand Winner of both the PBBY Salanga Prize (for writers) and the PBBY Alcala Prize (for illustrators).

First reading – from 6 year old.

Italian only.

“Who is the most beautiful animal in the forest?”. Our good friends Berta the Giraffe says ‘I’ and Girolamo the Hippo says ‘No, me!’. But when they learn that a hunter wants to capture the most beautiful animal, then all of a sudden Berta wants to become like her friend hippo who is ugly and silly, and hippo wants to become like the Giraffe who is neither beautiful nor intelligent. At last they are safe………………..until a tiger comes around and hunts the most stupid animal of the forest!
Amusing story about the sometimes difficult topic of ‘identity’. Your child will enjoy laughing at Berta’s and Girolamo’s vicissitudes.

The book won the 1st Prize at the Prix VERGHERETO