Macyelm Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Hi, Can anyone please recommend good quality Arabic picture books and story books for young children? I prefer books that are not translations from English, but rather original Arabic written books. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrichor Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 If you're Muslim (or not opposed to Islamic stories), I recommend A Cup of Mint Tea https://www.amazon.com/Cup-Mint-Tea-Arabic/dp/0985922613/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1543639596&sr=8-5&keywords=a+cup+of+mint+tea+book The author is a native English speaker, so I would assume it's written in good Arabic. I don't speak Arabic, so I haven't read the Arabic version, but I have quite a few of the English volumes. In English, there is some difficult vocabulary, and no pictures, but I've read the book aloud to 6-10 yr olds and they enjoyed it. I typed "Arabic Books for kids" into amazon and found some books that might be what you're looking for. Many of them seem to be written originally in Arabic. It looks like NoorArt.com has some too. Again, I don't have any experience with them, but wanted to try to help since you hadn't gotten any responses yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 I wouldn’t know, but CTY has some “Readers Series” for their language classes, which include Arabic. Worth seeing which books they use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 Not books, but I just listed an Arabic DVD which we ended up not using, on eBay... It looked like such a great starting point. (I wish we had had time to do it!) It's the Arabian Sinbad "Learn to Speak Arabic" language DVD. If I have a chance, I'll post it on these boards and you can take a look at it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 1 hour ago, J-rap said: Not books, but I just listed an Arabic DVD which we ended up not using, on eBay... It looked like such a great starting point. (I wish we had had time to do it!) It's the Arabian Sinbad "Learn to Speak Arabic" language DVD. If I have a chance, I'll post it on these boards and you can take a look at it. I have the full set of this. The set includes books, cds, etc. it looks well done 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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