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!”
“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.
