In Spanish, from 4yo.
Om is a young boy and he is wild. He can turn into an animal. How can he do this? His superpower is yoga.
Beautiful book to introduce yoga to children with the different animal poses. Narrated in an interactive story so children can listen and try the poses as the book goes along.
The illustrations as beautiful and colourful.
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In Spanish, from 12yo.
This explains how it all started. Judge Dredd receives a parcel at the courthouse that will send him on a mission to the Curse Land. Find out how he became adept of instant justice in his futuristic world.
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In Spanish, from 2yo.
Splat is a young cat and he is about to start school. He is frightened and finds all sorts of reasons to stay home. Finally, he has to go and decides to take his pet mouse along. Once in the cat’s school, he learns that cats chase mice.
Can you guess what will happen when he releases, Seymour, his pet mouse? How will the day end? WIll Spat want to go back to school?
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Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 8yo.
Carmina is desperate. She really wants to go to Marjorie’s birthday this Saturday but she does not know what to get to her friend who already has everything.
Great book to teach about values and money, the difference between wants and needs.
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Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 4yo.
Karlo goes to daycare and he does not behave well with his little friends. He steals their lunch, says mean things, tries to wake a friend up during naptime, he knocks a block tower down, etc…
One day, he goes to school and cannot find anyone. Where is everybody? He finally finds his friends happily playing together in the backyard.
He tries to join in but no-one wants to play with Karlo. Karlo is very sad and he finally understands that he has been mean with his friends and tries to make up and be nice from now onwards.
This book is great to introduce daycare to children and how they are expected to behave while in a group.
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Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 8yo.
This book is about the life cycle of the frog. One day a funny looking fish is born near a school of minnows in the mangroves. The minnows accept this new friend and call him Polliwog as he keeps wiggling. However one day, it becomes harder to breathe under the water, and his legs are growing and his tail is shortening. What is happening? Will he still be able to be friend with the minnows after the weird things that are happening with his body?
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Bilingual Tagalog-English, from 8yo.
This story is about a gourd. This gourd was envious and greedy because he did not have colours nor taste of the other vegetables. One night was everyone was asleep, he decides to steal colours and taste from the other veggies. The following morning everyone finds out and goes to trial with the fairies. Surprisingly, the fairies let him keep everything.
However, he must have been too greedy because all of a sudden all the colours and tastes want to mix together and the gourd become green, wrinkle and bitter.
Gourd is happy, he finally has his on colour and taste even if they are not as bright as the other vegetables.
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Opening little minds up to other cultures is giving the gifts of curiosity, love of learning about and from others but also tolerance. Taking your children to cultural festivals, making them taste foreign foods, reading books in foreign languages, reading foreign stories translated in English, playing games are all great ideas to offer this multicultural exposure without having to travel.
Here is a list of multicultural ideas that you might like to have at home. They are fun and great for learning.
Contact us for more suggestions.
In Spanish, from 0yo.
Gorgeous and sturdy board books. The collection includes 4 titles: The veterinarian, the cook, the mechanic and the gardener.
The designs are contemporary and colourful, perfect to attract the young readers’ attention.
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In Spanish, from 4yo.
This large format book is perfect to read out in a playgroup or in a classroom. You will love the 32 illustrations by Ingela P. Arrhenius. It will remind you of the 40s and 50s art style.
There is one word about the city per page. You can promote language by asking questions, such as what is the name of your mailman? Is the school close to your house? What is your favourite restaurant?
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