Schlagwort-Archive: Children

Review: Bear snores on

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Karma Wilson – Bear snores on

  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • number of pages: 40
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    It is winter and a bear is laying in a cave and snores. When a mouse comes in, he snores on, even as a party takes place close to him. Then he wakes up…
  • Review:
    I bought this book in Glasgow an I loved the bear and the story from the beginning to the end. I like the wonderful, colorful pictures ans the way  the story is told, especially the ending. Sure litle children will love the book, too. I can recommend it to all teachers, adults and all people, who like english picture-books for children.
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Review: The Ugly Duckling

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The Ugly Duckling

  • Publisher: Schwager & Steinlein
  • number of pages: 64
  • Part of a series: Yes —there are many books of the series called „Englisch hören und lesen“
  • Contents:
    Jack goes to the market to sell their cow. On his way he meets butcher an gets five magic beans for the cow. The following story shows how good this deal was and what wonderful things grow at the end of this magic beanstalk. It changes Jacks live an provides many adventures.
  • Review:
    I liked the book very much , but the CD is not so good just like it is the problem with the other books of the series. I think the text is read out too fast to be understood by those children, who do not have English as their mother tongue. The pages are wonderfully colored and the font is big enough even for young readers. The pictures are very funny and make it easy to understand what happens, even if your English isn´t that good. That’s why I think, it is a good book for learners of English. Especially teachers and adults will be happy about the translation at the end of the book and both children and adults will love the puzzles and littles tasks and games on the last pages. That helps to remember the content of the story in a very funny and special way. I can recommend the book if you don´t want to use it together with the CD. But the book is wonderfull. I think all readers will fall in love with the ugly duckling. And I love this wonderful end of the story. Children can learn that not everything is the way it seems to be.
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Review: Why Monkeys swing in the Trees

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Tinga Tinga Tales – Why Monkeys swing in the Trees

  • Publisher: Puffin (Verlag an der Este)
  • Number of pages: 32
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    This is a tale about the reason why monkeys swing in the trees. There has been a time, when they stayed on the ground and playes there with the other animals. But one day they teased Crocodile too much and together with the Lizard he takes revenge.
  • Review:
    The book is full of Africa and I like the story, the pictures and the way it is told. The idea of the content is wonderful and sure especially litle children will have fun to listen to it and take part in the story. And by the way they can learn, that it can become difficult for you if you need someones help, when you teased whom too much before. I recommend it to all people and specially to fans of Africa.
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Review: Jack and the Beanstalk

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Jack and the Beanstalk

  • Publisher: Schwager & Steinlein
  • number of pages: 64
  • Part of a series: Yes —there are many books of the series called „Englisch hören und lesen“
  • Contents:
    Jack goes to the market to sell their cow. On his way he meets butcher an gets five magic beans for the cow. The following story shows how good this deal was and what wonderful things grow at the end of this magic beanstalk. It changes Jacks live an provides many adventures.
  • Review:
    I liked the book , but the CD is not so good just like it is the problem with the other books of the series. I think the text is read out too fast to be understood by those children, who do not have English as their mother tongue. The pages are wonderfully colored and the font is big enough even for young readers. The pictures are very funny and make it easy to understand what happens, even if your English isn´t that good. That’s why I think, it is a good book for learners of English. Especially teachers and adults will be happy about the translation at the end of the book and both children and adults will love the puzzles and littles tasks and games on the last pages. That helps to remember the content of the story in a very funny and special way. I can recommend the book if you don´t want to use it together with the CD.
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Review: The Gingerbread Bunny

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Jonathan Allen – The Gingerbread Bunny

  • Publisher: Corgi Children (Verlag an der Este)
  • number of pages: 20
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    One day on Easter a Little Old Woman and a Little Old Man bake a Gingerbread Bunny. For cooling down they put him near the window. But the Bunny doesn´t want to be eaten and runs away. Step by step person after person starts following him. Will he manage to be free at the end or will he been eaten?
  • Review:
    The book is wonderful, especially for the time oft Easter, when I bought and first read it. I love the story, the pictures and most off all the way in which it is designed as a flap book. It was fun to open the little doors  an discover what is inside. Next year on Easter I will surely read it to my children and maybe let them play the story. In my opinion it is wonderful for a role-play not only because the text and content is so easy to remember, but also because it has so many different characters. Because of all that I recommend it to all people and hope you will remember it next year when Easter comes again.
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Review: The Three little Pigs

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The Three Little Pigs

  • Publisher: Schwager & Steinlein
  • number of pages: 64
  • Part of a series: Yes —there are many books of the series called „Englisch hören und lesen“
  • Contents:
    There are three little pigs. One day their mother tells them to leave home and discover the world on their own. So the three brother have to find a home and build houses. The first one builds his home out of straw, the second takes sticks and the last one decides to use bricks. Everything would be much more easy if there wasn´t the wolf.
  • Review:
    I liked the book very much, but the CD is not so good. I think the text is read out too fast to be understood by those children, who do not have English as their mother tongue. The pages are wonderfully colored and the font is big enough even for young readers. The pictures are very funny and make it easy to understand what happens, even if your English isn´t that good. That’s why I think, it is a good book for learners of English. Especially teachers and adults will be happy about the translation at the end of the book and both children and adults will love the puzzles and littles tasks and games on the last pages. That helps to remember the content of the story in a very funny and special way. I can recommend the book if you don´t want to use it together with the CD.
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Review: Elmer again

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David McKee – Elmer again

  • Publisher: Andersen Press (Verlag an der Este)
  • Number of pages: 30
  • Part of a series: Yes —there are many books about Elmer, the patchwork elephant.
  • Contents:
    Elmer, the patchwork elephant, is bored. It is the day before the day when all the other elephants paint themselves in different colors. All elephants are thinking about how they want to look like, all except Elmer – he will paint himself grey as he does every year. But while walking around Elmer has an new idea to make this day special again, especially for him and make a fool of the other elephants.
  • Review:
    I love Elmer and I love this story about him, too. I think there will be no story with this wonderful elephant which I don´t like. As alway the pictures are beautiful and the story very nice with a little surprise. And like we know it from the other stories about Elmer he teaches us again what it means to be special and unique. I am sure, that adults and children will love this book in the same way, so I can only recommend this book to you.
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