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episode 10: #8: Mel Riedleder's recommendations for bilingual kids and families
Books, movies and audiobooks for elementary school kids
Shownotes
Mel Riedleder, ESL teacher
WHAT TO READ
1. Torben Kuhlmann:
- Armstrong: The Adventurous Journey of a Mouse to the Moon
- Edison: The Mystery of the Missing Mouse Treasure
- Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse
2. E. B. White: Charlotte's Web– It was published in 1952. There's also a movie version. The German version is called "Wilbur und Charlotte".
3. Any Asterix & Obelix book
4. The Adventures of Tin Tin
5. Chris van Duzen:
- If I built a school
- If I built a car
- If I built a house
- The Mr. Magee series
6. Matt Haig:
- A boy called Christmas
- The girl who saved Christmas
- Father Christmas and me
- Evie and the animals
WHAT TO WATCH
- Cooking with kids #kitchenbuddies – Buddy Oliver on YouTube
- Any BBC (nature) documentary
LISTEN
- Vooks – Storybooks brought to life
- CD books / audio books
- Harry Potter collection
- Matt Haig's collection
- newsround – BBC news for children