Fun bilingual children's books!
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- 25 Oct 2022
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As a parent, it can be a struggle to find great bilingual books in English and Portuguese so I am sure you will be as pleased as I was to hear about these delightful stories!
About the author
Sheila Margaret Ward is an author and composer living in the Algarve following retiring as an English teacher. “I have always been fascinated with learning new languages and I studied Spanish with subsidiary Portuguese at University.” Originally, Sheila came to study Portuguese in the sixties, where between 1980 and 2011, she taught English as a foreign language for over 40 years which includes 30 years of teaching at the British Council in Lisbon, where she developed many ideas on teaching English to children.
Something special about Portugal
It was clear when speaking with Sheila that she is so enthusiastic about Portugal, when asked her thoughts on living here she told The Portugal News that “I decided to do a summer course in Portugal and we got the train from Spain and woke up at 7am when we were coming across the Portuguese border and it was the most amazing experience and so different from Spain.”
“Some people got on the train and we could hear Portuguese spoken, because being at university, it wasn’t easy to hear people speaking Portuguese. It was just fascinating and I just fell in love with it immediately and it was like coming home!”
Three is the magic number
Sheila’s wonderful bilingual children’s books include Freda and Fernando on the River Tagus (2014), Darcy, The Dinosaur (2016) and Freda and the Dolphin (2018). The stories are ideal for primary students from ages 5 to 10. Sheila gave a special mention to Portuguese translator, Pedro Soares and to illustrator Cristina Malaquias for her work on the Freda books as well as illustrator Jennifer Nunes for her work on Darcy, The Dinosaur. Additionally, all three books have some activities at the back and some language exercises making it perfect for both English and Portuguese speakers. Most wonderfully, all of Sheila’s books have songs to go with them which can be found on her YouTube and she also has done delightful audio versions of the stories. Read More…
