Category: Preschool Spotlight
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Constanze von Kitzing is the author and illustrator of lovely, modern children’s board books (author site). She is well known for her series about a diverse group of preschool children, who have adventures together with their teachers and parents. Von Kitzing’s Wimmelbücher are really sweet and humorous. Here’s an image from the first book in…
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The classic series Ich habe einen Freund, der bist… / Ich habe eine Freundin, die ist…, by Ralf Butschkow teaches children about diverse occupations. In each book, a child goes to work with a different person and learns about their career. They are nice, simple little stories where kids learn about everyday life as a…
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Wimmelbücher are picture books where the child looks for different things in a large picture (like Where’s Waldo) and they are extremely popular in Germany. The best Wimmelbücher to facilitate language learning include text that help give the child additional German language input. Here are some top Wimmelbücher series:
