Series: McGraw-Hill's Easy French Storybook
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (January 3, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071461671
ISBN-13: 978-0071461672
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 0.4 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #193,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #27 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Learning > German #43 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Learning > French #37861 in Books > Textbooks
Age Range: 3 - 6 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 1
One of the best purchases I've made and I have made several of bilingual books! and other materials for the learning of French for toddlers and young children. The quality of the book and translation, as well as the CD, are exceptional. The reader on the CD speaks beautiful fluid French. The enunciation is so clear. The illustrations in the book are fun and colourful and attract the young child's attention. Ana Lomba's products are of excellent quality and I would HIGHLY recommend all of them to anyone who wants to expose their children to a foreign language.
The Kindle version is a total rip-off. There is no audio with it. You get a few pages with mediocre pictures in black and white and only a couple of sentences per page. This is simply not worth the money. The story is in the public domain in many languages.My biggest complaint is that the Kindle page does not tell you these facts. I am the 8th reviewer but the other reviews are all for the hard copy! No one else yet has reviewed the Kindle edition, which is not the same product as the hard copy. The consumer can easily be misled because the description is all about the hard copy and the actual kindle product that is being sold is never described. This is to say, there is plenty of description but not about what they are actually selling!!!I wrote to before I bought it and they wrote back that they could not answer my question about whether audio was included in the Kindle edition. They suggested that I buy it and then return it and ask for my money back if it turned out to not have audio. I did that and they were nice enough about it, but I spent a lot of time on this that could have been saved if the vendors had been upfront about their product.If I were I would tell vendors that they must be upfront about differences between their kindle products and hard copy or be bumped from doing business with until they shaped up. I wish other customers would complain about things like this. It should not be so hard for to do in order to protect its still salvageable reputation as a consumer-friendly place to shop.
I agree with the positive comments made by other reviewers. My whole family enjoys this rendition, and the story is presented in a manner that reinforces structure through repetition (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge marchait lentement, tres lentement... 'Une fleur rouge! Qu'elle est jolie!'). Even my 5-year old daughter enjoys calling out key lines at appropriate times ('Allez, ouste!'). Someone in my household wants to hear it almost every day, so that I have it almost completely memorized.And the CD that accompanies the book includes not only a recording of the entire story, but also individual recordings of the various parts in the event you wish to actually present the story as a play.It's a very fun and non-threatening way to get your feet wet in French, or just keep active in language learning. Good quality, cheap price.
Thank you for this book. I no longer have to wait until I am in Europe to buy simple children's book in French. I am teaching my daughter french the same we taught her english, lots of simple fun books instead of all that gruel which turns kids off.
The book itself is well made and the audio is good that comes with it. However, the wolf literately eats the grandmother as well as little red riding hood. To make it worse, the woodcutter chops the wolf's stomach open and Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma come out covered in food. They then proceed to fill the wolf's stomach with rocks and sew him shut... NOT something I want my kids reading...
I got a start on French with Flip Flop French: Ages 3-5: Level 1, and then purchsed this story book - what a great pair! After getting a foundation in basic pronunciation, I think the kids enjoyed it ht much more. What a fun way to learn and reinforce vocabulary! My children are all five and under, and they all enjoyed this.
The books in this series have a quality binding and are very sturdy and will hold up to repeated use. The text is very easy to read and the accompanying CD is invaluable for training the ear to hear the French pronunciations. We had difficulty locating French children's books so this one is a treasure!
I have listened to the cd only once since I got this and I loved it. The French is clearly spoken and enunciated. It will help me in reading it to my son (18 mos old) and later when he can follow along. I am very happy with this product.
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