Boys and girls in early grades receive a fun-filled, informal introduction to French in this picture book, supplemented with an interactive CDA-ROM. Kids go along with Harry and his friends as
he visits France. Vivid full-page illustrations show scenes of Harry arriving at the airport, being driven to the home where he will stay as a guest, enjoying lunch in the kitchen, then playing
at a beach, visiting a farm, exploring a town and its shops, going to a party, and finally returning to the airport for his flight home. All illustrations are filled with objects that kids will
immediately recognize, each object labeled to identify it in French. For instance, an illustration of a village center shows a car (labeled la voiture) moving down the street . . . a boy
preparing to ride his bicycle (le v簿聶翻lo) . . . a butcher shop with its sign above the window (la boucherie), and several other appropriately labeled objects. Each two-page spread
also features a lift-the-flap phrasebook, in which the words are spelled out phonetically. The accompanying CDA-ROM is filled with spoken examples of French to familiarize children with its
sound, plus fun-to-play language-learning games. (Ages 7A-10)
