First 1000 Words in Arabic - Heather Amery

With my ex husband, my daughters dad being Iraqi and speaking Arabic, I feel it's important that she learns as much about the culture and language as she can . This is pretty difficult, with him living in Liverpool, and me in Nottingham, as he only gets to see her during school holidays. I spent a little time on Amazon.co.uk looking for resources that would enable me to teach her a little at home, and one of the books I picked up was Usbournes First Thousand Word In Arabic. It's a nice a4 size picture book, with colourful illustrations on each page, with the words written below the pictures in Arabic script, with roman letters beneath to guide with pronunciation. There ...

Usborne Farmyard Tales: Where's Curly? - Heather Amery

This is one of the many Farmyard Tales books published by Usborne, written by Heather Amery and illustrated by Stephen Cartwright, more on them later. The farmyard tales series of books focus on Mrs Boot, her children, Poppy and Sam and their pets, Rusty, Curly and Woolly who together all live on Appletree Farm. - The book - The focus of this book is on Curly the pig. Poppy and Sam are introduced and the reader is told that they are looking for Curly the pig. Initially they wonder if he is in the pigsty so they take a peek behind the door of the sty. Not there, instead the sheep is behind the door. So the two very young children look in the following places: ~ the ...