The Dance of the Caterpillars Bilingual Farsi English

by Adele Marie Crouch, Parvin Ch (Translation)

While watching her Chinese immigrant son-in-law learn the English language, it became apparent to the author that prepositions are one of the most difficult concepts to comprehend. Therefore, The Dance of The Caterpillars was written as a fun way to teach prepositions. This exciting children's book contains twenty-two prepositions, one two-word multiple, and two three-word multiples. It is destined to become a valuable learning tool for children as well as English as a second language students. Farsi, also known as Persian, is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. The Persian/Farsi language is classified as a continuation of Middle Persian, the official religious and literary language of the Sasanian Empire. There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers worldwide, with the language holding official status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.

Genres: Fiction

50 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2010

Reviews

[Julie Barrett · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Dance of the Caterpillars by Adele Marie Crouch
Illustrated very colorful book for children. This is to be used as a learning tool when learning a foreign language and
there are more examples at the author's website.
This particular book shows everyday things and tells about them in English and under that is another paragraph is another language.
Shows fairies sprinkling magic dust on the caterpillars, they spin making cocoons and they are set for winter months. This version is Spanish and English.
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[Doreen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like the story idea and thought the pacing was great, but I didn't enjoy the illustrations as I usually do with Adele Marie Crouch's books. My almost-2-year old wasn't a big fan either, alas, and we've tried with this book several times (on our Kindle app.) Can't comment on the French translation as my French isn't advanced enough to attest to its correctness, but it seemed right!

[Hillary · Rating 1 out of 5]

Perhaps useful as a language learning tool, but definitely not a well written story.

[Lewlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely story for little kids. My 5 year old enjoyed it. Nicely illustrated too.