Is your child anxious to start school this fall? Or just going back after the long summer break? Either way, we have a few suggestions how to get your child in the mood. All books can be borrowed at KinderBooks, of course. Just send us an email at beatrice@kinderbooks.nyc Bertram & Schulmeyer DER ERSTE SCHULTAG MO UND DIE KRÜMEL, Volume 1 Before Mo and his friends start school, they have an orientation day together with their teacher, Ms. Grimm. It is very quickly apparent, school will be tons of fun for all of them, but also entail lots of chaos! Mo and his friends have many ideas, like a fight of first day school cones (the cones are a German tradition! The fight is not...), a guinea pig
Today, August 1st is the Swiss National Day. On this day three Alpine cantons swore to be a confederation, the so called Rütlischwur. The Swiss celebrate this with bonfires, fireworks and obviously decorating everything with paper lanterns with the Swiss flag on it. We don't have any books on Swiss history at KinderBooks (yet), but here are some classic Swiss children's books! You will find a more extensive list of 20 great classic and new picture books and chapter books from Switzerland - all titles we offer for rent within the US - here. Selina Chönz / Alois Carigiet SCHELLENURSLI This is probably the all time classic, originally published in the 40es. It tells of the custom in the alps
