Re: [LM_NET] ELEM / MID / HS - Books in other languages

[kaTe <cag02@COX.NET>]

I would like to piggyback on this request.

while I am in a high school, we could use some low level books in Somalian or 
Swahili or Farsi for students to practice reading with.  my preference would be 
that they would be bi-lingual.  the low level books I happened to have look very 
child-like, although the kids didn't seem to object.  but they needed a dictionary 
to use with it (and I had to search a bit to find those).

I sense a whole new avenue for an enterprising book dealer here!

thanks,

kate :)


---- Angela Symes <angela@SYMES.TV> wrote: 

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Dear Brain Trust,

                Seeing as my principal can't swing the funding to send me
abroad to browse bookstores *sigh*, I need help. I am in need of books in
the mother tongue of my student population.  I am looking for the books that
my students would be reading if they were in their country of origin, not
just translations of popular English stories.  I would like publishers or
companies that can provide MARC records if possible (Cataloging is hard as
it is, in another language?  Ha!).  As 34% of my population is Filipino,
Tagalog is my top need, although I would like books in Korean, Chinese,
Arabic, Vietnamese, Portuguese and others.   Even just titles to look for
would be great.  

                 

 

Thanks!

Angela Symes, Librarian

Hudson International Studies Magnet School

Long Beach, CA

angela@symes.tv

 





Kate Gallion
Librarian ~ Teacher
TUSD Alternative Education
Project MORE H.S.
Tucson, AZ  85719
cag02@cox.net
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Alternative_Ed/

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