Tanya Moves House

In English with Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Arabic, German or French. As a teacher of ESL children, Elaine Abrahams believes young children build on their existing language, so that it is vital that their mother tongue should be continued until they have enough English to be bi-lingual. She produced her expanding, very bright and attractive series of dual-language, book and cassette packages for 4-8 year olds to help. Full-page coloured pictures encourage children to identify the details of the text illustrated in them. The sentences are clear and simple as are the stories; in this new title, Tanya moves from Bangladesh to settle happily in Britain.