[LM_NET] HIT ->Asian language book sources

[Libby Gorman <libby.gorman@GMAIL.COM>]

Hello all,

Thanks to the many of you who sent suggestions for places to buy Asian
language books. I have forwarded many of these to the ESL teachers at
the school where I'm doing my field experience. Hope these are useful
to you!

Libby Gorman
Master of Science in Library Science Student
UNC-Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science
libby.gorman@gmail.com


Places to buy books in foreign languages (specifically Asian languages
such as Korean, Chinese, Japanese) [I have added comments in square
brackets]:

We have used Schoenhof Books for books in French and German.  This is
their website: http://www.schoenhofs.com/
And what about Amazon's international sites—links at the bottom of
their home page show Japan and China among others. [I tried to use the
Chinese site and it was in Chinese.]
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We get many books from CHINA SPROUT.

Thay have a nice selection of newer, popular  titles like Eragon.
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I don't have much info about discounts, etc. since I'm a graduate
student with no purchasing experience, but Asia for Kids
(www.asiaforkids.com) is a publisher/distributor specializing in many
hard-to-find languages.

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We buy a lot of bilingual books for our students.  We are elementary.
Do a search on Follett's Titlewave, titlewave.com.  You can set up an
account for free.  Do a search using the terms bilingual japanese and
see their lists of books.  We also use Asia Kids, http://www.afk.com/.

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I was at ALA Midwinter Exhibits looking for books in Korean for our
ELD students, too.  I found a vendor named "The Korean Book Center".

The email address is Mark@JEWimports.com

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Look at Chinabooks.com.  We just started classes in Mandarin and ordered
many books from them, so I can vouch for their service.  The Mandarin
teacher says they have all kinds of kids' books in fiction, plus all the
regular subject areas.  Also check out
http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/bilingualforeign/

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