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Test-drive Daniel Georges’ في عالمي الصغير Free Online
Thanks to @ArabChildLit for pointing out this book, from the award-winning Daniel Georges, which you can read free online! Reading online doesn’t provide quite the same satisfying experience as sitting with a child in your lap, turning pages. But it’s … Continue reading
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Al Salwa to Launch Their First Story App at Abu Dhabi Book Fair
Next week, Al Salwa Publishing House will join a few Arabic children’s-book publishers in launching their first story application. Continue reading
New Application for iPad, iPhone Helps Children Learn Arabic Letters: حروفي المرحة
There’s now a new way for tech-savvy children to learn—and engage with—their Arabic letters. Continue reading
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Kalimat Shares لا أخاف Online…Free!
I have written before about the International Digital Children’s Library, which allows children around the world to read books—in languages from Kinyarwanda to Polish to Arabic to Slovenian—for free! Continue reading
Award-winning دجاجة باق بيق Now Available for iPhone, iPad
Kalimat sent out a notice about the award-winning دجاجة باق بيق—written by Rania Zbib Daher and illustrated by Joelle Achkar—being available for iPhone, iPod, and iPad (here, in the iTunes store) just as CBS news asked: Are eBooks Okay for Small Children? Continue reading
In Sharjah, Are Children and Youth Demanding More ‘Digital Books’?
Such was a headline in today’s Khaleej Times (Children, youth demand more digital books), and I wondered if there’d been a run on الدجاجة بَاقْ بِيق before I remembered Dareen Charafeddine at Kalimat had said that it wasn’t yet in the i-book store. Continue reading
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Read It Online: حبيبة بترسم دهب
My friend Bernadette Simpson, author of the popular ABC Escapade through Egypt (English), has made her first foray into writing in Arabic—with some assistance, I believe, from Nadim ElKotry. Continue reading
Does a Child Need ‘Paper’ Books to Learn to Read?
Occasionally, we do bedtime stories on the computer. There are nice e-books online through the International Digital Children’s Library (in fact, it’s the only place I’ve found بكار books), and—now and again—I let the boys look through the books on the عالم سمسم website. And, when the seven-year-old was first learning to read, I found Starfall.Com a useful English-language resource.
