Ears Hear 耳朵 聽見 
Written by Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang

Illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden

Sun Ya Publishers (Hong Kong)

published in 2012

 

The story in this book was written to engage all the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. It was also written to capture the joy human beings feel when they spend time in fresh air and sunshine, admiring the animals and insects that share the world with us. Lastly, this book celebrates the love shared between a father and his child. 

 

Numbers Do  數數

Written by Kathleen Ahrens and Chu-Ren Huang (In English & Chinese)
Illustrated by Marjorie van Heerden
Sun Ya Publishers (Hong Kong)
published in 2012

This story is about the power of a young child's imagination to create a world that is both safe and exciting. Written as both a counting book and a classic bedtime story, in it the young child leads her elder sister on an adventure that ends in the sweet realm of dreamland.

This book was written in short simple sentences so that it could be read aloud over and over again. Reading the same text aloud repeatedly helps a child implicitly become familiar with a language's structure. In addition, the warmth and safety that comes from reading and re-reading a story strengthens the caring bond between the person reading aloud and the child being read to. Both the English and Chinese versions introduce the most basic sentence patterns and also allow the child to practice counting from 1 to 10. The Chinese version also introduces the use of classifiers.

More information go to http://booksfromtheeast.blogspot.co.za/

 
 

On-line ordering is available in Hong Kong from Commercial Press Bookstore:
Numbers Do
http://www.cp1897.com.hk/product_info.php?BookId=9789620855382
Ears Hear
http://www.cp1897.com.hk/product_info.php?BookId=9789620855399


On-line ordering is also available in Taiwan from SanMin Bookstore:
Numbers Do
http://www.sanmin.com.tw/page-product.asp?pid=523494&pf_id=99M155F8c109e7c104H65T112R126CAIuHGm513IbM
Ears Hear
http://www.sanmin.com.tw/page-product.asp?pid=523494&pf_id=99E155q8K109i7F104p65L112g127jHXqQLc188SxV


Readers from other parts of the world can download the order form:

Order form for Numbers Do

Order form for Ears Hear 

SAM, ’n Ware verhaal van ’n dogtertjie en haar olifant
By Ingrid Vander Veken
Translation from Dutch into Afrikaans by Antjie Krog
Illustrations by deur Marjorie van Heerden
LAPA Publishers (South Africa) Published in 2012

paperback 137 x 212 mm (128 pages)
ISBN: 9780799349771

My naam is Marthe. En hierdie is die ware verhaal van my en my olifant.

Marthe is ’n Franse meisie wat saam met haar ouers en haar sussie in China bly. Vir haar agtste verjaardag kry sy ’n ongewone geskenk – ’n baba-olifant! Sy naam is Sam en kort voor lank is die twee van hulle onafskeidbaar. Sam bly in die tuin en hy hou daarvan om saam mark toe te gaan, waar hy self vir hom geskilde piesangs koop. Maar op ’n dag gebeur daar iets wat alles verander ...

Hierdie boek is gegrond op die ware verhaal van ’n meisie wat meer as ’n eeu gelede met haar olifant van China na Frankryk moes reis.

 

"Ek het destyds so vertaal-vertaal uit die Hollands vir my kleindogter Antjie gelees, en daar was iets “regtigs” omtrent die boek." -  Antjie Krog