Children's books

[aesmael]

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

There is one book at the charity shop which is not in English. I do not know what language it is in. I would guess Eastern European. So I try to keep it prominently displayed in a relatively empty part of the children's book shelves, hoping someone who knows that language will see it and want it.

I had been forgetting to say, if I am at some time in a position to be doing story time for children in a library I would be rather tempted to try and get to read Spiders Are Wonderful. This would probably be unwise because parental objection, although there are worse choices I could make.

But so far my favourite title for a children's book is one which has been floating around the charity shop: Nature's Smallest Gravedigger.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Is said book in Cyrillic or Greek text? Most Eastern European languages are in Greek text give or take Serbian and Ukranian. Most are also Slavic, give or take Hungarian and Romanian.

[aesmael.livejournal.com]

Out of those two, the text could only be Cyrillic.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Probably Serbian or Ukranian then, although it might also be Russian.

[pazi-ashfeather.livejournal.com]

Pics!

[coniferous_you]

While the net you would cast with those books would only catch a somewhat specific type of child, you would be ensure to hook them on reading forever and become a memorable person in their lives. Storybook reading is a very complex subject, more than people realize, and being asked to do it is a wonderful opportunity for you.