Sources
This page is meant to help parents find books, music and other
materials to make family bilingualism easier and more fun. Some are
sorted by language and are found on their own pages:
Even if you're only interested in one of the languages above, don't
forget to look at the lists below. At least one of these will be
useful for each of the languages above.
biling-fam List member Silvia
Tolisano maintains the Multilingual
Fleamarket. You can buy, sell, or trade minority langauge books
and materials here!
Bookshops
- World of Reading US-based company
with a catalog of books, audio tapes and NTSC video tapes in a variety of
languages (e-mail: polyglot@wor.com)
- Cherry
Valley Children's Books Bilingual Bookshelf Mostly Spanish at the moment but more
languages are promised soon.
- Schoenhof's Foreign Books A
large bookstore in Cambridge, Mass., USA which has received very good
reviews from list members. The site claims to have books in 285
languages.
- Shen's Books and Supplies
Shen's apparently specialize in children's books in Asian languages,
but the catalog lists much more. Also books about many cultures in
English.
- Books Without
Borders Features children's books, videos and audio cassettes, in
English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, plus bilingual
English-French and English-Spanish books for children.
Music and Audio Cassettes
- World of Reading US-based company
with a catalog of books, audio tapes and NTSC video tapes in a variety of
languages (e-mail: polyglot@wor.com)
- Books Without
Borders Features children's books, videos and audio cassettes, in
English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, plus bilingual
English-French and English-Spanish books for children.
Video Cassettes
A Note About Video Standards: North America and Japan, among
other places, use the NTSC standard for television transmission and
video recording. Most of Europe (excluding France), Australia, and
New Zealand, among other places, use PAL; France uses SECAM. This has
nothing to do with VHS versus Beta; nearly all commercially available
tapes are now VHS. The distinction is however just as important. If
you buy a PAL tape from Germany, you will not be able to play it on
your NTSC video player in New York (or vice-versa). You will either
need to have the tape converted by a video or photo store that offers
this service, or you will need to obtain a multi-standard video
player.
- Wolperdinger's World Of
Learning Videos and games to introduce children to foreign
languages.
- World of Reading US-based company
with a catalog of books, audio tapes and NTSC video tapes in a variety of
languages (e-mail: polyglot@wor.com)
Books Without
Borders Features children's books, videos and audio cassettes, in
English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, plus bilingual
English-French and English-Spanish books for children.
Software
- Broderbund
Europe A list of children's software available in UK English,
French, German and Japanese (e-mail:
broderbund@starpack.co.uk)
- Infinisys
Educational Software Mostly Japanese language educational software
for children - some other languages also represented.
Sites with Lists of Sources
I can't even pretend to make this page a comprehensive list of sources
for bilingual children's materials. Additional lists can be found at
sites like these:
- Bilingual/ESL
Resources Mostly meant for Bilingual Education or English as a
Second Language teachers, but the long list of resources includes some
of interest to bilingual parents, too.
- Clearinghouse
for Multicultural and Bilingual Education Mostly meant for
teachers, but this site includes a long list of online sources for
books, videos and other resources in many languages and about many cultures.
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