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 Walking Through the Jungle - Now Available in Dari & Pashto!
The bilingual children's book Walking Through the Jungle is now available in English with Dari & Pashto (as well as 22 other languages)! Read along as our pig-tailed adventurer makes her way around the world - from oceans and rivers to deserts and mountain tops - pursued by wild creatures from all over the planet. Each brightly illustrated page depicts a multitude of flora and fauna unique to the environment. Join this fearless young explorer as she discovers the different animals and terrains in the world... and makes it home in time for dinner, safe and sound!
Cookbook & Bilingual Book Giveaway Winners
Congratulations to our "Cook & Read" Giveaway winners! The three people selected to receive Room to Read's Recipes Worth Reading and a bilingual children's book were: Sonia, a training specialist from Oregon; Kim, a parent from Florida; and Melissa from Missouri, who works with immigrants as a volunteer. We hope they enjoy their books, and thanks to everyone who took the time to enter! |
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DECAL: The New, Inclusive Early Childhood Education
 Today's classrooms are all about diversity, and DECAL is about educating each child as an individual. "All teachers of young children must be prepared for children with DECAL: Different Experiences, Cultures, Abilities, Languages... [Inclusion is] about realizing that all children need to be together, learning together, and playing together right from the start." Read more about DECAL here.
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October is Celebrating the Bilingual Child Month
 October is here, which means it's Celebrating the Bilingual Child Month! Having a month set aside each year to celebrate the joys of childhood bilingualism is a wonderful way to instill pride in bilingual children and involve bilingual families in classroom activities.
Not sure how to go about celebrating bilingual children in your classroom? Check out our blog post for 10 ideas to get your creative juices going. And don't miss out on our huge giveaway (see below) in honor of Celebrating the Bilingual Child Month!
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Biggest Language Lizard Giveaway Ever! $300 in Multilingual Children's Products
October is full of bilingual reading fun! In honor of two exciting events - Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month AND Language Lizard's 10th Anniversary - we are proud to announce our biggest giveaway ever!
Language Lizard is celebrating 10 years of offering award-winning bilingual books and multilingual resources to teachers and parents who work with dual-language learners. Language Lizard’s mission is to promote the maintenance of heritage languages and support educators, librarians and parents who work with dual language learners. For years, Language Lizard has been offering award-winning bilingual picture books in English with a choice of over 40 languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
Language Lizard will send one lucky winner a $300 Language Lizard gift certificate that can be used to purchase any of the bilingual / multilingual products available on the Language Lizard website. To enter the contest, simply fill out and submit the Language Lizard Giveaway Entry Form before October 31, 2015. See our post for more details on how to enter. |
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| "Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs"
� Nelson Mandela |
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About Language Lizard
Language Lizard, LLC aims to enrich children’s lives with language and culture, promote the maintenance of heritage languages, and support educators and parents raising dual language learners. The Company believes that children will be inspired to learn languages and to connect with other cultures if they are exposed to fun and creative learning materials early in their lives.
Language Lizard currently offers award-winning dual-language children's products in over 40 languages. To find out more about our company and products, or to sign up for this free e-newsletter, please visit www.LanguageLizard.com. For additional support and resources, please visit our BLOG at http://blog.languagelizard.com. |
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