Book Launch for First Multilingual Book for Children in Canada
The library’s multilingual collections for children are a wonderful resource for educators, paren'ts and families seeking to read books from their culture or from cultures around the world.
Looking for a book from your home language? Dual language books in English and another language are a great way to celebrate your home language or learn a new language. Here are a few from our catalogue:
Next Saturday, October 4th, At One Press will launch the first ever multilingual book for children in Canada; The Best of All Worlds: Seven Multilingual Stories for Kids.
The Best of All Worlds is a collection of seven multilingual stories written by Canadians for Canadians. The stories in this collection are written in Arabic, Farsi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Each one was then translated into English and French, accompanied by wonderful illustrations.
Join us for the book launch of The Best of All Worlds, the first multilingual book for children in Canada on Sunday October 4th, 2015 at the Agincourt Branch. There will be a multilingual storytime, author signings, and more!
Still want more? KidsSpace has a great selection of stories to read or listen to in many different languages. Hear-a-Story has stories you can listen to in English and ten other languages. Read-a-Story gives you access to the International Children’s Digital Library which has over 4,600 children's eBooks in 61 different languages! We even have a collection of Multicultural Rhymes from many different cultures.
You can also search the library catalogue to find materials in your language or visit past blog posts on collections in other languages: Arabic at Your library; Italian Collections; Korean Collections; Your Library in Russian; Our Top Spanish Resources; Tagalog at Your Library and Tamil at Your Library.
8 thoughts on “Book Launch for First Multilingual Book for Children in Canada”
This is fantastic! It would be great for ESL learners and for integrating culture into the classroom. I’m in teacher’s college and will definitely be recommending this to my colleagues!
I love that TPL celebrates diversity and different cultures. As a a beginning teacher, this is definitely something that I will try to incorporate into my classroom. As well, having a multilingual storytime at the library is a great way of getting the community to visit the library and enjoy what it has to offer! I will definitely be sharing this with my colleagues.
This is great! It benefits kids who are learning English as a second language — but also provides kids (and adults) who do speak English, an opportunity to learn even more about various cultures across Canada. It’s a great opportunity for all kids and adults alike to learn — multiculturalism is what makes Canada great!
Thank you, Carina! You’re right, it would be a great resource for ESL learners. Please do recommend to fellow teacher’s college students and we hope to see you at the launch!
Hi Shelby. We are so glad that you appreciate and recognize TPL celebrating diversity. Please do share with your colleagues and we hope to see you at the launch!
Thanks Haziq, I couldn’t agree with you more! Multiculturalism does make our city and country a great place to live. Hope you can make it to the launch next Sunday!
Great post Suzanne. I think it’s fantastic that there are publishers committed to diversity and to publishing books for children that can speak to their – and their family’s – different identities.
Thanks, Ab! I agree, it is wonderful to see a publisher committed to diversity and a collection especially for children. Hope you can make it to the launch!