World's Edge Books & Publishing has just released its first Chinese book: Lina Mao Dickson's translation of our children's book I Drink Mommy's Milk: A Book About Mammals. I am happy to announce that the book is now in our inventory and available for ordering through our website. Please note that this is the Chinese-character-only edition; a bilingual edition with characters, pinyin, and English translation will be available in November 2010.
I have just received my new iView Media Player in the mail, after a two-week wait, and can now play DVDs from France (or anywhere in the world)! The children are now watching Thomas et ses amis (the French version of Thomas and Friends, available only in France), and they don't even seem to notice that it's in French. Sebastian has been enamored of Thomas for about a year, although he's only seen one or two episodes in English, and it's much less flashy and hyperactive than most of the shows created for children these days, so I ordered a Thomas DVD from Amazon.fr as soon as I ordered my multiregion DVD player.
The iView Media Player cost me 56.99 USD, including shipping, from www.samstores.com, took about 30 seconds to set up, and is working beautifully so far...
We are only watching television twice a week now, but I already have two children's films originally created in France for our next couple of viewing sessions. I hope to wean Sebastian off Thomas and Friends and onto classic French children's films as soon as possible. I think there must be some good African children's films in French and will start looking into that as a project for the new year.
