About Where Is My Little Crocodile? – ぼくの ちいさな ワニくんは どこ？: Bilingual English Japanese Children’s Book for Kids Ages 2-5 (Japanese Books for Children 1):
Teach Your Children First Words in English or Japanese
Are you looking for a crocodile? The search for a little crocodile named Charlie in different places is a delightful read-aloud. Can Charlie drive a car? Is he allowed to eat in restaurants? Is he dangerous?
Where did he go?
Kids will learn different places, objects, and simple questions and answers, but mostly, they will cry out a loud “hooray” when the funny crocodile is discovered at the end. Where? Well, just read . . .
Here’s what makes this book special:
Parallel text in English and Japanese
Translated by expert native-speaking translators
The story is simple and suitable for early-age learning
All the illustrations are original, creative, and fun
For reading aloud at home or in preschool, kindergarten, or for reading together at school
Optimal for the first contact with a foreign language
Kids learn quickly and easily. With bilingual children’s books, you set them up for success and expand their horizons from an early age! This dual language story is specifically designed to teach children new foreign words and phrases as you read to them. The book is also available in other languages.
Two Versions Of Japanese:
This book is for bilingual language learning. It is edited in two versions. Considerations in the editing are following differences between English and Japanese grammar.
Pronouns (I, you, he, she, me, him, her, etc.) are often dropped in the subject and/or object and in the possessive form in Japanese.
There are different verb forms: polite, simple, dictionary form, etc., besides verb conjugations.
Finally, there are sentence-ending particles to convey nuances.
In the text, the first line in bold letters uses children’s language, which is not generally taught in Japanese learning books. The second line in smaller letters includes pronouns and uses a polite form typically taught in Japanese language textbooks.
There are EXTRA pics to color in the PRINT version!
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Author Bio:
Our kids are growing up in an increasingly bilingual society. It’s time to introduce second-language concepts to the youngest, even at a very early age. With our publishing catalog, we are primarily interested in offering new experiences and making suggestions for new perspectives of the world – also in the fantastic and magical.
PlanetOh concepts Educational Publishing was founded in 2018 to support bilingually educated children in their language development through narrative children’s picture books and activity books.
The books offer a child-friendly, linguistically stimulating design and varied illustrations. Cross-cultural themes such as friendship, tolerance, gathering courage, overcoming fears, etc., are deliberately chosen to ensure that the stories are linguistically and culturally understandable and engaging in all targeted language areas.