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Along with our social media, our blog keeps you up-to-date with our stories. We want to share reviews of books and learning resources, educational activities and people’s language journeys. If you have a story you’d like to contribute, please email us directly! Let’s share our experiences to encourage cultural and lingual confidence!
Book Review: Draw Me A Star
Aside from some issues with race representation and some nudity in the book, Draw Me A Star is like most Eric Carle books in that you can’t go wrong with the bright, eye-catching collage art and the engaging narration that accompanies it. In reading and engaging with the book after reading, the child is encouraged to observe and admire their surroundings.
Book Review: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
This book delivers the joy of poetry-inspired rhythm and repetition by Bill Martin Jr. with the classic Eric Carle visual experience. It’s an enjoyable read for both parents and children and works very well in classrooms, too. Learning the colours and animals in Chinese is fun and it’s nice to have the option to choose between hardback and board book, big and small, bilingual and monolingual!
Book Review: Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother Too?
Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother, Too? is a classic Eric Carle book told with classic Eric Carle art style and vibrancy. With many books of his, the art style is far from realistic. But we really love the repetitive sentence/question structures - it opens up the opportunity to learn new vocabulary and gain confidence in reading aloud.
The Play Dough Caterpillar 好玩的毛毛虫
You might not have known that The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle has been translated into over 60 languges! However, many of these translations are out of print or dangerously close to being out of print. That’s why translations are extortionately priced on sites like Amazon.