For you families who travel abroad,
For you parents seeking a host family in another country for your teenagers,
International Parents was designed with you in mind. By one of the Frenchparents network co founders!
International Parents seeks to both stop short and go further than Frenchparents.
To stop short of giving detailed local advice by major city worldwide, [...]
Bayard Jeunesse, the leading French publisher of fun yet educational magazines, books, and CD Roms for children 2 to 20 has come out with its own online destination for kids: BayardKids.
With two diferent offers by age group ( 2-6 and 7-12), the BayardKids sites offer online educational games and content, advertising free and with a [...]
A new breed of magazine for children 5 to 7 has come out in France in 2008. ‘Champions du CP‘ and ‘ Champions du CE1‘, which can be translated as: ‘ First Grade Ace‘ and ‘ Second grade Ace‘ are high quality, 80 page magazines for kids that combine:
edutational content typical of high end children’s [...]
A nice initiative from the writers and illustrators at Astrapi, a leading children’s magazine for the 9 to 11 year old crowd, in the country that invented the concept 30 years ago: France, with Bayard Presse Publishing. Lulu, one of the star characters in a cartoon in the magazine, now has her blog!
Its truly fascinating [...]
Here are some books my children ( and us as parents) really enjoyed for our children, when they were between 4 and 7 years old.
Apart from books we got a lot of great stories, quality illustrations and writing from magazines (which look like soft cover books really) published by Bayard Presse, a France-based publisher that [...]
I’m sure the Francophiles and French speakers among you are often wondering what smart and fun videos and DVds in French to get for your children? I mean DVDs and Videos where they might actually learn something and enjoy themselves.
Here’s a suggestion for ages 4 to 10 I recently discovered.
Its a series of shows available [...]
The French publisher Playbac Presse who pionneered the concept of a daily newspaper for kids starting age 5 (kindergarden) in France, just launched (in November 2006) MyDaily10.com, a daily news site for kids 8-10.
Just like its French paper cousin, this is a paid subscription-based service, starting at $8.99 for 4 weeks ( 20 issues).
My hunch [...]
When you’re an English-speaking expat, it’s hard to find good, fun and educational reading for your children in their native toungue, for ages 1 and above. Here’s what I know as one from the publishing world with a UK, US and Canadian view (sorry, don’t know about Australia right now).
