Help! Help! (Bengali-English)

Author: Sandhya Rao
Illustrated by: Proiti Roy
Paperback: 16 page(s)
Age Range: 5 +
Ontario curriculum: Language - Reading

Book Description:

-???-+Help! Help!-???+-?-+ calls the big black ant when the little black ant falls into the water. But the only answers it gets are -???-+crokk-???+-?-+, -???-+isspiss-???+-?-+, -???-+aaaanh-???+-?-+, -???-+cheek-???+-?-+, -???-+miyawwwwn-???+-?-+ and -???-+woaw-???+-?-+. Who will save the baby? Unusual sounds add excitement to a familiar pattern in this folktale-based story. The sometimes onomatopoeic, sometimes alliterative, sometimes rhyming words that add flavour to the story stretch the concept of bilingual translation. The result is a parallel set of onomatopoeic, alliterative or rhyming words in another language that enrich the child-???+-?-+s vocabulary and approach to language.