Little Byron: Xiao Bai Ren (the Little Byron Series) |
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| Illustrator:
| Maidment, Mikaila |
| Author:
| Juetten, Rebecca |
| Series title: | The Little Byron Ser. |
| ISBN: | 979-8-8183-1592-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2015 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.67 |
Book Description:
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Byron is a little boy who plays dress-up and goes on imaginative adventures with his three pets - one dog and two cats! Follow Byron on a voyage through his imagination, which starts in the real world (his bedroom) and takes him over the sea to a deserted island where he finds a very real treasure and returns with it to the real world again. The immensely talented Illustrator, Mikaila Maidment, has created the whimsical and heartwarming, original drawings for Little Byron -...
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Byron is a little boy who plays dress-up and goes on imaginative adventures with his three pets - one dog and two cats! Follow Byron on a voyage through his imagination, which starts in the real world (his bedroom) and takes him over the sea to a deserted island where he finds a very real treasure and returns with it to the real world again. The immensely talented Illustrator, Mikaila Maidment, has created the whimsical and heartwarming, original drawings for Little Byron - Xiǎo Bái Rèn - 小白任 which are certain to spark the imaginations of young readers.
This is a full colour, original story, displayed bilingually in English, Mandarin (Simplified Chinese Characters), and in Pinyin (an official system of transcribing Chinese characters so that Mandarin learners can pronounce them: Pinyin = "to spell sound"). The target language in Little Byron - Xiǎo Bái Rèn - 小白任 is the numbers 1 to 10, which make it a great book for beginning ESL/EAL students whose native language is Mandarin as well as beginning Mandarin students whose native language is English.
Another key element of this storybook is its specific text layout, called Text Scaffolding, or, Scaffolded Text, which was exclusively developed by the publisher Little Crab Educational Press (LCEP) and is also explained in a demo video on their YouTube page. In short, Text Scaffolding layers the Chinese Characters on top, Pinyin in the middle, and English on the bottom, aligned in a specific way that allows for quick and easy translations in either "direction" (Mandarin to English, or English to Mandarin). Unlike with other books that lack key information, beginners and intermediate learners of either language won't get tripped up by definitions they have yet to learn or pronunciation they have yet to memorise because in addition to Text Scaffolding the book comes with a Reading Guide, Grammar notes, and a Glossary.
Find Little Crab Educational Press online to learn how to obtain the audio narrations and pronunciation tutorials for Little Byron - Xiǎo Bái Rèn - 小白任 and all other relevant LCEP productions.
Little Byron - Xiǎo Bái Rèn - 小白任 is book #1 in the series, and this is the NEW and IMPROVED 2nd edition. As the series continues, friends of Byron will be introduced who reflect the multicultural mosaic of children in North American classrooms and each new friend will take a turn as the main character of subsequent books, with Byron alongside them for the ride!