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Counting Nursery Rhymes book reviews

Susan Jillian Walklate - Educator

 “This series of books has been cleverly developed by Julie K.Nicholls.

She has skilfully translated well known and well loved English nursery rhymes into French, while keeping rhythm, cadence and rhyme.

It combines the enjoyment of nursery rhymes with our first exploration into a new language. It introduces children to a foreign language in a natural and relaxed way.

This book has easy to read text with fun to follow actions, colourful illustrations and a CD so that you can Sing-Along with Julie.

This provides an essential learning experience as it has been proven that bilingual children achieve better results in their education”.

L age 9: “The book is good, because if you are French or English, you can read it. I think it is really good, because it has numbers in English and French for the different countries. The CD is a really good idea, because the French people may not know how to pronounce the English, nor the English the French.”

L’s parents about using the book and CD: “Clearly, the CD is the vital part.  It is really done well and the bilingual format gets across the point that languages are spoken at a certain pace and that you need to speak and listen at that pace. That’s probably the key feature and benefit of the book.  The fact that these are nursery rhymes, implies that they should be repeated time and again until second nature, very clever. The illustrations make more sense once you are listening and start singing along with the kids.”

“Using the book one appreciates the work that has gone in to making it. All round, a great job you should be proud of!”

Angela Atkinson AA Editorial Services
“This is a lovely and much-needed idea. Language teaching in our schools is pitiful: by and large too little too late. So every little helps and these rhymes are translated into French with great care.
I've bought this for my granddaughter who is approaching one year old. I've copied the CD into iTunes so I can easily access the tunes from my iPad and iphone.

If you want your child to start getting some early experience with another language, this a good way to start - and good value for money.”