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Book review: ‘But that won’t make me sleep!’

Bilingual English-Tagalog, from 8yo.

It is bedtime and a little girl cannot sleep. Her mom tries everything, a story, a bath… but to no avail until dad comes back from work. He tucks his daughter in and wishes her goodnight and finally the little girl falls asleep.

Perfect for young readers, this story presents the text in both languages on the same page to make it easy for language learners to understand the structure of each language.

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Book review: ‘Kapitbahay kubo’

In Tagalog, from 0yo.

Cute board book to learn about vegetables. You will love the colourful and playful illustrations.

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Review: ‘Juego de las 7 familias – ropa y colores’

In Spanish, from 4yo.

Fun card game inspired by the original French version ‘le jeu des 7 families’. From the book series ‘the Zazoos’, put together the families by collecting all the pieces of clothing on each card for each character. The player who has the most complete ‘families’ wins the game.

Great resources to review colours and clothing in Spanish while having fun.

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Book review: ‘How long till September?’

Bilingual English-Tagalog, from 8yo.

A little girl is impatient, she wants to celebrate her birthday but it is in September. Each month passes by with a new activity but she longs for her party.

 

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Book review: ‘Endlich im kindergarten’

In German, from 0yo.

Cute little board book about the first day at kindergarten. At kindy we make new friends, we go to the toilets by ourselves, we feed the fish and play. Sometimes we feel sad and want mom to come an pick us up. Not to worry she will come at then of the day and take us home. We had fun today and we will come back tomorrow.

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Book review: ‘Zapata: colors – colores’

Bilingual English-Spanish, from 0yo.

Let’s learn the colours with Zapata. Your child will love this beautifully illustrated board book perfect for young readers.

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Book review: ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’

Bilingual English-Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes… We all know this fun rhymes, let’s sing it in Spanish, Portuguese or Vietnamese. This song is a fun way to start teaching your little one about his body.

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Book review: ‘Tom Gates album genial’

In Spanish from 8yo.

Fantastic large format activity book. This is Tom Gates’s diary in which he writes about his day at school, his family and his friends.

The book is entertaining as it mixes storytelling as well as activities, such as questions to check if the readers has understood the text, mazes, guesses…

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Book review: ‘Adeus chucha, adeus fralda, vou dormir’

In Portuguese, from 2yo.

Three little board books perfect to motivate little ones with toilet training, getting rid of the pacifier and go to bed peacefully.

These colourful books come with a chart where parents and children can track the progress with stickers and when it is all done children get a paper No 1 Medal.

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Book review: ‘Huellas’

In Spanish, from 2yo.

Whose paw prints are those? You will find that not only detectives can follow paw prints….Inspired by Montessori resources, this game lets the child explore and match the paw print with the animal. They can then observe how different the paw of the animals are. The child can group the paw prints and the animals by animal type and see the differences. Are the paw prints of the bird different from the amphibians? Why?

For the little one who cannot read yet but the short texts and the format of the letters are perfect for letter recognition.

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