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Technically this is about the last ten weeks, since the last decent post about this was before Fresher's week and we're also one week into the holiday, but uni term length has already got me seeing life in eight week blocks. My first time at university has been a hectic couple of months, but something I want to share.
University life
It's brilliant. The texts we're doing (read about them here) have all gotten better with studying, and all my tutors this term have been helpful. There's been a lot of socials and chances to meet some lovely people. My college full of people who are extremely friendly, and we have some beautiful surroundings- just look at my library!
Theatre
Oxford has a lot happening on stage,, way more than I could ever fit in! But the shows that I've been to see (The Nether, the Queer Cabaret, Much Ado About Nothing, Jealous of Herself, The Last Five Years, Trojan Women) have all been high quality, that I liked for different reasons. Also, I'm writing for the Cherwell from time to time- it's exciting to be writing for more of a community (I still love this little blog though!)
Reading
I took eight books up for fun with me thinking I could do one a week. Hahaha. I got about halfway through The Republic of Thieves, and a little way in to Frangine. The thing is, when most of your time is spent reading, the last thing for relaxing is more reading, especially when there's shows to go see and people to be around and the chance to not be solitary for once. So not much reading for the blog happened. Now it's the holidays, there is much more time for reading. So this will stay a book blog. Just not a busy one (though it hasn't been such for a long time).
Dancing
You may have noticed from my twitter that I really enjoy swing dance, and I knew when I went to uni I wanted to carry that on and maybe take up another style. Well, I trialled for the dancesport team which would do ballroom and latin, but I didn't get in. I also trialled for the rock and roll team, and I did get in! It's more energetic than I thought it'd be, and different in style, but there's also the chance to do acrobatics, which are a lot of fun, and competitions, which will happen in February. Me on an official sports team... never thought that would happen!
YA Salon - 7th December
I had a day in London last week, where I got to catch up with a lot of friends- two hadn't seen since starting university, and then, later in the evening, many bloggers and authors I hadn't seen in some time. It was my first time at a YA Salon, and at this one, the focus was the book I'll Be Home For Christmas, an anthology where £1 of each sale goes to Crisis. It was a fun evening, with a fiendish Christmas in literature quiz, and the trial of book blind dating, where a panel of authors answer questions, the person asking chooses one of them, and that author gets to tell us about their story). The addition of mince pies and mulled wine made the night even better.
What next?
Well, now it's the Christmas holidays. I have catching up to do with my school friends, a trip to Devon with my dad's side of the family, a Christmas day with my mum's side, a lot of reading for both Latin and French before next term starts, and also need time to myself. But I'm still enjoying the little blogging I'm able to do, so I'll try and keep that up. If you particularly want to see my life and books and happenings, you'll find me on Twitter or Instagram though. Until then, enjoy the holidays, let's hope for a new year bringing good news for a change, and goodbye for now.
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Cricket Media is my all time favorite producer of magazines for young people. Betsy Bird over at Fuse #8 Production featured the following press release at the beginning of the month.
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First sentence: I wanted to make Christmas very special, just for you, so I made a Christmas wreath. I wanted to decorate some Christmas cookies just for you, but I couldn't stop tasting them. I wanted to find a Christmas present just for you, but there were too many toys to look at.
Premise/plot: Little Critter tries really hard to make Christmas really, truly special for his Mom and Dad. But, as you'd expect, things don't always go according to plan. Is it the thought that counts?!
My thoughts: I love and adore Little Critter. I loved this one cover to cover. My favorite: "I wanted to wrap the baby's present just for you, but the tape was too sticky." It is a fact, by the way, that I was banned from using tape!
Text: 5 out of 5 Illustrations: 4 out of 5 Total: 9 out of 10
Christmas Journey. Anne Perry. 2003. 180 pages. [Source: Library]
First sentence: Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould hesitated a moment at the top of the stairs.
Premise/plot: A country-house party in December goes terribly wrong when one of the guests decides to jump off a bridge and commit suicide. The "victim" of this mystery (Gwendolen) was first the victim of a cutting insult. The other guests decide that Isobel (the woman who was 'rude') is to blame. She's to be ostracized from that day forward. But the host (Omegus Jones) and the heroine (Lady Vespasia) concoct a way to "cleanse" her socially. She'll be the one to travel to the mother's home (Gwendolen's mother) to tell her the news. If the mother travels back with her and agrees that sufficient penance has been done, then all will be well--socially.
My thoughts: This is a very odd book. It's Christmas-themed, which could be a great thing. But. It's also supposed to be a mystery. And that is where it falls short a bit. Perry's books usually have at least one or two crimes. And they tend to be DRAMATIC and big. Not subtle and dainty. I liked that this Christmas mystery didn't offer a lot of GRIT and RAGE. On the positive side, it is a very short read! But ultimately it is probably forgettable as well.
And here they are, along with a quote from Dizzy's story:
At first, Dizzy felt quite as high as a kite
As the sleigh soared aloft in the star-spangled night. But then, as the air became more and more chilly, The elf’s Big Adventure felt less and less thrilly. For when Dizzy finally gathered his nerves (Not easy to do with the swoops and the swerves) And looked at the lights twinkling far down below He felt—well—quite dizzy, with vile vertigo.
The word essay comes from the latin exigere, meaning “to ascertain,” or “to weigh.” It was used in the late 15th century as a verb, meaning “to test the quality of.” Writing in essay form… Continue reading →
Today I was supposed to be attending a friend's Christmas party. Poor Gaye rang me last night to say she had a nasty cold which she didn't want to spread. I regret her cold, but not the party, which will be on next weekend, or I could catch up with friends to give them their gifts, if it wasn't.
Meanwhile, I had another option this afternoon: to attend the the annual Christmas concert of the Eaely Arts Guild. I receive their newsletter, because some years ago I was learning Renaisance Dance from Helga Hill. I was, let's face it, not very good and eventually dropped out to try belly dance. I was a little better at that, though not brilliant, but my first teacher stopped teaching to focus more on her nursing day job, the second one, who was very good indeed, moved to the other side of town, where I couldn't follow her, and that was that. I did try another couple of teachers, but neither was anywhere near as good as Samra. There was one who had taught herself dance through videos!
Helga Hill is a huge expert in the era of the Renaisaance and the Baroque. She is an historian, a dancer, a musician with several instruments under her belt, a translator and makes the costumes, which are utterly accurate, from her research. She used to travel to Europe every year to read manuscripts and learn even more.
I was never really good enough to perform, but she was kind and let me have a go at some simpler dances and the rest of the time I acted. I was a Duchess watching the dancers perform in my honour, a Commedia Del'Arte-masked clown called Clod, a lady in waiting watching the dancing with the king and, once, a lady embroidering at the bedside of the dying Queen Elizabeth while her life was played out in acting and dance below.
It had been years since I'd seen Helga or her husband Mark and it was such a pleasure to see them again. I ended up buying a copy of Mark's local history book about Gippsland and their CD, which is playing on my CD player as I write this post.
The performance was wonderful as always. There was dance and music and a narrator and a wonderful soprano who also had learned the art of gesture. That's a very precise art, which we learned a little about when I was there, Only one dancer of today's troupe had been around in my time, Jan. I didn't get a chance to talk to her, but at intermission I approached Helga, who was pleased to see me and gave me a hug.
I really must make the time to go to other concerts next year. I kept having clashes thus year.
After interval there was some Baroque dance by two dancers, both women, though one dressed as a man, complete with Van Dyke beard! It's always the same in that case - not enough men. Only one this time. And Baroque is a much more difficult form of dance than Renaissance, trust me on this! We learned one Baroque dance when I was there - and that was one of the simpler ones. So these two were clearly the most advanced members of the team.
That's a Baroque costume on the right.
The man is a lady!
The concert finished with bell ringing. That's something Mark used to teach years ago, but he has not been well lately, he was just out of hospital and on a crutch.
It was a lovely end to a delightful performance.
Learning Renaisance Dance was not just because I was interested in it. It was all a part of research for my writing. Did you know that there are very few medieval dances we know? That's because they weren't written down, or at least we don't have any dance manuals that might have been written at the time. So Helga focused on the later eras, for which there were manuals.
Mind you, there were some earlier dancing masters we know of, just before the Renaissance. One of them was a Jewish lad from Pesaro called Guglielmo, of whom it was said that he could have seduced the goddess Diana. That's how gorgeous he was. There's a painting of him dancing between two young ladies, his students. He was respected enough that he didn't have to wear Jewish identification(you think the Nazis did this first?). On the whole, though, Italy was not a bad place to live if you were a Jew in the arts - and most of them were. It was expected of the kids that they learned music, dance, acting, whatever. We don't know what happened to Guglielmo, though there's a theory he may have converted to get a job he wanted. Oh, well... I wrote him into a story once, a Mary Sue, of course, in which the teenage girl met him at the school dance and found herself back in his time briefly, dancing with him... No, I never even tried to sell that one!
Guglielmo with his students.
Public domain
Anyway, I learned enough to help me with my historical fantasy; I've never regretted my time with the Ripponlea Renaissance Dancers.
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Enjoy this book trailer for Wolf in the Snow - a lovely story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, but with a wolf who needs saving and a brave little girl who can do it. Click the image to watch on YouTube.
Dear Frances, I have recently returned from a brief holiday, and find myself really busy as I pick up the pace of my Christmas preparations. It is such a delight to see your Advent posts and be reminded of your artistry and also the true spirit of Christmas. Thank you! xo
I wish I had the numbers in front of me. I wish I could tell you how many bilingual books for kids have been published in the past and how that number compares to today. If we’re going to speak to my experience as a children’s librarian over the past decade, all I can say with any certainty is that while I don’t know if the number of bilingual books has increased, I do feel as if I’m seeing a wider range of languages. That is a wholly unscientific speculation, of course. In any case, enjoy this smattering of some truly lovely bilingual books out in 2016.
Note: Some of the titles on this list are not strictly bilingual. They may instead incorporate more than one language into their text. I have included these because they encourage a love of multiple languages and do not slot neatly under any kind of definition (and are consequently forgotten). I’ll note these titles as they appear.
2016 Bilingual Books for Kids
SPANISH
Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood, ill. Sally Wern Comport
El Violín de Ada: La Historia de la Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados del Paraguay by Susan Hood, ill. Sally Wern Comport
A friend pointed out to me earlier in the year that it was somewhat remarkable that a nonfiction picture book was coming out in both English and Spanish versions. Never mind that it’s beautiful to look at with great writing and a unique story. Or that it’s one of the rare picture books out there where you can honestly get it from a child’s point of view. I like to think that this book may be a sign of things to come. Or maybe I just hope it.
Animal Talk: Mexican Folk Art Animal Sounds in English and Spanish by Cynthia Weill, ill. Rubi Fuentes and Efraiin Broa
This isn’t Weill’s first time around the block. It is, however, strange that I can’t conjure up more titles that do precisely this: show animals sounds in another language. It sort of sounds like a no brainer when you hear about it, doesn’t it? Kudos for the idea and the gorgeous follow through.
Little Chickies / Los Pollitos by Susie Jaramillo
I think this is just one of the great book publications of the year. In fact, I included this on my earlier board book list. Then, one of my commenters mentioned that there was also this out there:
Little Elephants / Elefantitos by Susie Jaramillo
I’ll take twenty.
La Madre Goose: Nursery Rhymes for Los Ninos by Susan Middleton Elya, ill. Jana Martinez-Neal
Yay! Now this appeared on the nursery rhymes list already, but it’s nice to see it here on the bilingual list as well. Granted it’s not strictly bilingual. Spanish words are integrated into the text. But that’s okay. I just think it’s neat.
And you may have seen this gorgeous title on my alphabet list too. It’s far more than that, though. A science book that looks at rainforests in depth, an alphabet book, a bilingual book, and a collection of the author’s poetic rhymes (in TWO languages!), it’s a bit of an achievement.
Rudas: Nino’s Horrendous Hermanitas by Yuyi Morales
They’re baaaaack! Again, not strictly bilingual but with a consistent smattering of Spanish words, this sequel to Nino Wrestles the World picks up where the last book left off.
Somo Como Las Nubes / We Are Like the Clouds by Jorge Argueta, ill. Elisa Amado
Oh, these poems are AMAZING! Subject matter aside, these poems make an immediate emotional connection with readers
Waiting for the Biblioburro / Esperando el Biblioburro by Monica Brown, ill. John Parra
I felt bad. An acquaintance, not knowing if this book would appear on my list, went so far as to send me a copy. I could have saved them a stamp since this book has been on my radar for a while. It is by NO means the first biblioburro book I’ve ever seen, but it may well be the most touching.
I believe that there’s a fair amount of Japanese at the end of this book or perhaps in the poems. Hey, if it means I get to put it on a list, you can BET that I’ll be first in line to do so.
The Last Kappa of Old Japan: A Magical Journey of Two Friends by Sunny Seki
A sweet story with a modern twist, this is great! Takes a classic folktale creature and gives it warmth and heart and wonder.
ARABIC
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey by Margriet Ruurs, ill. Nizar Ali Badr
Bilingual Arabic books for kids are few and far between, so the appearance of this book on our shelves is a real treat.
I would be amiss if I didn’t should out two Chinese / English bilingual titles that I thought were truly wonderful but that are well nigh impossible to find online. Alakazam by Chao Wang, ill. Duncan Poupard (9781945295102) and CeeCee by Mao Xiao, ill. Chunmiao Li & Yanhong Zhang, translated by Helen Wang (9781945295140) are two books that deftly display how seamlessly some translated Chinese titles fit into the American picture book market. Unfortunately, as of this posting, I’ve been unable to locate them online. If you have any leads on the matter, be sure to let me know. They’re really and truly great books.
Interested in the other lists of the month? Here’s the schedule so that you can keep checking back:
There are a few different picture books about “international” animal sounds. I’ve read one or two in storytime. I did a quick Google search to come up with the titles and got a big surprise.
Here’s a video of a children’s librarian reading Everywhere the Cow Says Moo.
Remarkably, the librarian is me. I have no memory of being filmed, and I’m not sure I gave my consent before the video was posted on YouTube. But I present this embarrassing and possibly illegal footage as a reference for your information and/or enjoyment.
Kathy said, on 12/12/2016 11:12:00 AM
I’m a fan of Canticos books. They are fun to read and my students love to play with them.
Elizabeth Bird said, on 12/12/2016 1:09:00 PM
“Possibly illegal” are my two favorite words in the English language. Thank you for this! And thank you too for the reminder. Long long ago I saw that book and completely forgot it. Looking it up now!
Advent means "waiting" or "something good is coming". This is why history professors are always talking about the advent of automation, the advent of industrialism, even the advent of the Stone Age. Mostly, though Advent is about dancing around wondering if you can be good enough, long enough, to get that pony you asked for. (I never asked for a pony. I wanted a horse. No half pint measures for this girl!)
Advent calendars are all over the place - chocolate, small gifts, even money, Babyccino made up a book advent calendar back in 2009 which she updates every year. It's a simple enough concept. Collect as many winter or holiday books as you can, wrap them in paper and number them. Open one each night from December 1st through the 24th.
For suggestions on how to make another Bookish Advent calendar - with a list of book suggestions, visit Delightful Children's Books.
It's not too late to make a partial calendar for the dancers in your family. Whatever you are waiting for this time of year - a baby, a miracle of lights, a fat man in red, snow, a magical star, the dragons of winter - a count down calendar can slow down the dance.
Here is another idea for a countdown calendar.
The Kindness Chain: Cut and decorate strips of colored paper, longer than they are wide. (Say five inches by an 1 1/2 inches.). Make one strip for each day of waiting. On each one write a kind deed; for example, hold the door open for someone; let someone in front of you in line; help someone with a chore; talk to someone you don't know well. You know your family well enough to choose the right acts. Every so often add something fun, for instance, bake cookies; dance to holiday music; make a cotton ball beard. Make a ring of one strip; slip the next strip inside and make it into a ring. You will end up with a paper chain. Each morning, pull open one strip and read the suggestion for the day.
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Have you noticed how many of the horses in The Hobbit end up dead? And that's the children's book of that universe!
I don't know why I have suddenly been thinking about this subject, but it's one that enters my mind now and then. As a child, I had walls covered with posters of horses and horse figurines(mostly plastic) on every level surface. A normal little girl, of course. I lived in a flat, so no chance of owning one and anyway, they were expensive, so even finding an agistment paddock would have been out of the question.
But I dreamed of horses like Shadowfax. Oh, yes!
If I've got any of the details below wrong, please forgive me, Tolkien experts, and don't write rude comments about it! It has been a while since I read these books, though it was multiple time, and I just wanted a pleasant Sunday morning wander through them.
In The Hobbit, most of the horses are ponies. When Bilbo, Gandalf and the Dwarves leave Hobbiton, only Gandalf is tall enough to ride a full sized horse. And Tolkien gives his ponies personalities. And then he has the lot of them eaten by the goblins, when the company sleeps in that cave above the goblins' halls.
As if that isn't enough, several of the ponies lent to them in Laketown are eaten by the dragon,
The only ponies to survive to the end are Beorn's, lent to the Dwarves when he has hosted them and sent them on their way - and that's only because he insists on their return at the edge of the forest and lurks in bear shape to make sure it happens. He's not silly! And considering what happens to the company in the forest, it's even more sensible! Giant spiders, for starters. Beorn would know about them and other scary things in Mirkwood, even if it does also contain a colony of Elves. (But these are not aristocratic Elves like the ones in Galadriel's realm or Rivendell. They're the lower class of the Elven community.)
I suspect Tolkien got rid of the horses because he needed the Dwarves and Bilbo to be on foot when they encountered the various dangers along the way. If the goblins hadn't eaten the ponies in those dark caves, Gollum would have done so. And you can't lug them up the Lonely Mountain, can you?
In Lord Of The Rings, he's not so awful to his equine characters - and they are characters and they mostly have names. Who can possibly forget Shadowfax, king of the Mearas? Or Bill the pony? When the hobbits' ponies are scattered at Bree, the only horse they can get is a skinny nag bought at an outrageous price from an awful man called Bill. Bill the pony has to be left behind eventually, but he is reunited with his adoring master Sam Gamgee and even gets revenge on his former owner with a kick in passing. The other ponies, following Fatty Lumpkin, Tom Bombadil's pony, are not eaten or burned by dragon fire, as they would have been in The Hobbit, when the author needed to lose them. They end up quite happily employed at the inn in Bree.
In LOTR we meet an entire nation of horse lovers, the Riders of Rohan. Their horses are their life and soul. They are the best among ordinary horses, though there are also the Mearas, which are a truly special breed, stronger, faster, more intelligent than the regular variety. And the best of those is Shadowfax, who ends up carrying Gandalf. He is dazzlingly white and was performed by two Andalusian horses in the film version, as I was hoping and expecting.
Horses from Rohan, black ones, are stolen from the herds for the use of the Black Riders. They are brought up in Sauron's realm, so become used to it, but I always felt sad for those animals born to the light and the plains, living in the darkness of Mordor and carrying the Black Riders - and then being swept away at the ford along with their masters. After all, they were just ordinary horses, if the best quality, not flaming-eyed demons. And I do wonder whether the nasty Black Riders were at least kind to their horses, which, after all, they had to rely on.
The Ranger horses are special too. They aren't pretty, but they're tough. Rangers need that. And when they came to the terrifying Paths of the Dead, the Ranger horses were fine with it, while the Rohan horses had to be blindfolded, as I recall.
Apart from those poor Black Rider horses, the only equine death was Snowmane, King Theoden's mount, who died in battle and fell, crushing his master under him. The horse got a grave and a memorial anyway. Not his fault!
There were Tolkien elements in the SF TV series Babylon 5, in which the Black Riders were captured humans in black spaceships, unable to be separated from their "mounts". Even the villain, Bester, grieves over a beloved woman who had had that done to her.
Interesting, isn't it, how even Tolkien's horses made their way into our culture?
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Some readers asked if I would consider making my latest newsletter dispatch public, so they could link to it. So I posted it at Medium. It’s about, among other things, how I briefly became a tax lawyer (like and unlike my father), and how important it is for us, in politics, always to keep one eye on the money. Especially now.
It’s always fine to forward the newsletters, or to quote from them. As I’ve said, I don’t ordinarily post them online because I like the veneer of privacy. But once they’re out in the world I’m not invested in trying to control where they end up.
Jonathan Nelson's The Woolf of Jonesy: Part I is a treat!
In some ways it is (for me) a mirror. See... I grew up on the Nambe Indian reservation in northern New Mexico. As I gaze at the cover, I see a cool dude (that's Jonesy--he's a sheep) sitting on... something (more on that later). He's holding a flip style phone. On the ground is a little red wagon with bent wheels and a backpack. Behind him is... (imagine me exclaiming) a barbed wire fence and a cattleguard! Silly? Not to me! And certainly not to anyone who grew up on a reservation. Or a ranch, somewhere.
Here. Take a look yourself:
Here's how the story starts out: Jonesy has just finished high school. It is springtime. The story opens with Jonesy asleep... and it is getting hot... He doesn't want to get up. Sound familiar?! He reaches over, turns on the electric fan, drifts off again, and the fan quits. He hauls himself out of bed.
Some of Nelson's work on Jonesy was on display at the Heard Museum in Arizona, in 2015. The first three rows in this panel are similar to what ended up in The Wool of Jonesy. Nelson has since expanded the last row (remember this panel was exhibited in 2015):
Compare the sleeping Jonesy in the panel to the Jonesy on the cover... he does, indeed, as that last row shows us, shave his wool. The story then, is his efforts to get that wool to the trading post, where he plans to sell it. At the end of the story, Jonesy is back home, waking up, his bag of wool nearby.
As you see in that panel, there is no text. The Wool of Jonesy is a wordless comic. Readers use the images to create the story, themselves. It is like Owly. If you're new to wordless comics, or comics in general, take a look at Gene Yang's Graphic Novels in the Classroomfrom the January 2008 issue of Language Arts. I am pretty sure that I know some librarians and teachers who would love to have this book... As I study it, I see all kinds of things I love (example: it is set in the present day).
What is Jonesy going to do... in Part II?!
The Wool of Jonesy came out in 2016 from Native Realities. Get your copy directly from Native Realities. Heck! Get two copies and give one to a friend or a kid you know! I highly recommend it!
So Kailana (The Written Word) and I are teaming up again...this time to celebrate CHRISTMAS. 25 days of answering questions! You are definitely welcome to join in on the fun!
Favorite thing I love to do with my family during the holidays...
watch movies
Favorite Christmas songs or albums from your growing up years...
albums: Michael W. Smith Christmas Bing Crosby White Christmas Merry Christmas From the Beach Boys Amy Grant Home For Christmas
songs: I LOVE Snoopy's Christmas!!!
Favorite movies or Christmas specials from your growing up years... Garfield's Christmas Charlie Brown Christmas Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Muppet Family Christmas Holiday Inn Muppet Christmas Carol
I am on doing some catch-up. My net is crap lately. :( I watched Muppet Family Christmas on YouTube one year. lol I need to get it on DVD or something. I really liked that one when I was young.
I wanted to mention that I’m hosting a Christmas read-along called "A Literary Christmas" on my blog this year. If you sign-up, you can link to all your holiday book posts on the linky!
Letter I wrote to my Governor: Dear Governor Mead, I am writing to you with deep concern for this apparent trend in the GOP to sell off public lands. Wyoming's parks and forests make our state a very special place, and to sell these jewels off to the highest bidder will cut future generations off from a rich and varied natural habitat. Please stand up to the forces that would destroy this legacy. And please let me know of what I can do to help. Best, Amy Kathleen Ryan
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Technically this is about the last ten weeks, since the last decent post about this was before Fresher's week and we're also one week into the holiday, but uni term length has already got me seeing life in eight week blocks. My first time at university has been a hectic couple of months, but something I want to share.
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By: Betsy Bird,
on 12/10/2016
I wish I had the numbers in front of me. I wish I could tell you how many bilingual books for kids have been published in the past and how that number compares to today. If we’re going to speak to my experience as a children’s librarian over the past decade, all I can say with any certainty is that while I don’t know if the number of bilingual books has increased, I do feel as if I’m seeing a wider range of languages. That is a wholly unscientific speculation, of course. In any case, enjoy this smattering of some truly lovely bilingual books out in 2016.
I’ll take twenty.
By: Maud Newton,
on 12/10/2016
By: Debbie Reese,
on 12/10/2016
By: DIWAKAR,
on 12/10/2016
By: Amy Kathleen Ryan,
on 12/10/2016
Love, love this book and hadn't thought of it in so many years. It was a favorite when my kids were small. Thanks for posting!