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‘Handa’s surprise’

Handa's surprise le toboggan

Bilingual Polish-English, from 3yo.

Handa wants to surprise her best friends for her birthday. Aiko leaves in the next village. As a present for Aiko’s birthday, Handa prepares a special gift, a basket filled with delicious fruit. She carries the basket on head and starts her journey. While she is walking several animals steal the fruit one by one. Handa is oblivious. What will she bring to her friend once there is no more fuit?

Find out out this sweet story end and what Handa’s surprise is. This is a lovely story about friendship. The side by side text in both language will help children learn fruit and animal vocabulary in both language easily. Make them practice their language skills by asking them to describe the colourful illustrations.

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‘Eth paetiyage kathandare’

Eth paetiyage kathandare

Bilingual Sinhalese-English, from 2yo.

Little elephant want to join a group of friends who are playing together. They tried hide-and-seek but he is too big to hide, they jump on a floating raft but he is too heavy. Every time they try a new game, everything seems to go wrong for little elephant. This makes him sad. Then his friends have an idea. Why not ask little elephant what he wants to play? Little elephant then choose hide-and-seek but instead of hiding he counts, to float on the river he gets a larger log.

This is a cute story about learning to value each other’s differences and using creativity to find way to all play together. To learn about the other games little elephant his friends play read Eth paetyage kathandare.

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‘Por qué?’

por que le toboggan

In Spanish, from 1yo.

This is a funny story between a bunny and a mouse. When they meet the mouse asks the bunny why he is so sad. He explains that a tooth fell off the night before. So the mouse says he is sorry. The bunny asks why he is sorry since he received a gold coin for the tooth. Mouse is happy. Then the bunny says his gold coin fell in the sewer. Mouse says he is sorry again. Bunny asks why is he sorry because he managed to recover his coin with a magnet along with two other coins. The story carries on between bad and good happenstance.

The children will love the entertaining back and forth between the bunny and the mouse.

To acquire your copy go to por que.