Arabic-L:PEDA:Childrens books responses

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Date: 21 Jul 2004
From:ncoffin at Princeton.EDU
Subject:Childrens books response

Dear Brian:

I've also been searching for Arabic children's books lately, for my  
kids.
Often what is available is either very didactic or is a direct  
translation
from English or other European sources.  Anyway, these two websites  
have a
good selection of materials for children:

Astrolabe & ISNA:  http://www.isna.com

Noorart:  http://www.noorart.com

Also, when your Arabic improves a bit, Dar al-Adab has an excellent  
series
of four children's books, with very amusing text and witty  
illustrations,
written by Samah Idriss, which can be ordered directly from the  
publisher.
You can email them at d_aladab at cyberia.net.lb for more information.

Good luck!

Nancy Coffin

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Date: 21 Jul 2004
From:dlmsmith <dlmsmith at sbcglobal.net>
Subject:Childrens books response

I've had good luck with two Internet sources of Arabic materials:
www.ibcbooks.com and www.asiaforkids.com. Both have children's books in
Arabic.

Debra Morris Smith

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Date: 21 Jul 2004
From:bickettb at georgetown.edu
Subject:Childrens books response

Brian,
International Book Centre in Troy, Michigan, carries lots of children's  
books in Arabic.  YOu can find their website.
Also, Sulaiman's Bookshop in Beirut sells to individuals as well as  
institutions, bills in USD when the materials are shipped, has very  
reasonable prices and
is very reliable (I have been doing business with them for 25+ years  
and never a problem); you can contact them at  
info at sulaimansbookshop.com
One of our faculty members recently started using the series Kutub  
al-farashah, which has several levels, beginning w/al-Marhalah al-Ula;  
all the levels are voweled, so it greatly facilitates reading!   If you  
would like to see a list of the titles we have, go to  
library.georgetown.edu, search for title=Kutub al-farashah and you will  
find the several levels we have.
There are several Arabic bookstores in the California but I don't have  
the names handy -- perhaps another list member can provide that info?
Good luck!
Brenda E. Bickett
Bibliographer for African, Central Asian, Middle Eastern & Islamic  
Studies
Georgetown University Library
Washington DC 20057
USA
bickettb at georgetown.edu
phone: 202-687-4482

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Date: 21 Jul 2004
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Childrens books response

Greetings.... ahalan wa sahalan...

Re your post on the ARABIC-L list.

Bravo to you for imagination, as adult learners of the Arabic can  
use children's Arabic books (eps illustrated dictionaries and  
specialized texts) as very effective tools for initial acquisition and  
reinforcement.

You might plan on a day-long drive and shopping trip to the Buena Park  
/ Anaheim area of Orange County called "Little Arabia." There are  
several well-stocked Arabic bookstores there, and most of them have  
large stocks of such books.

New one is Jarir Bookstore, 11107 Brookhurst St., Garden Grove, CA  
92840 (GG is on the boundary with Buena Park).

Jarir is the local outlet of the al-Kitab al-Arabii chain (which main  
office has a huge warehouse in Irvine, just down the road). What they  
don't have, they can get fairly quickly, esp from publishers in Lebabon  
and Syria.

Tel: 714-539-8100        Fax: 714-539-8130

website: < www.jarirbooks.net >

Other bookstores in that area (all of them are pretty much clustered  
around one another) include:

o  Dar al-Hikma

o  Al-Hayat

A few other smaller ones are also in or near that area.

Although there reportedly are some Arabic / Islamic bookstores in the  
SF area and near the Presidio of Monterey (where US military linguists  
study Arabic), I have no details about them. l speculate that those  
boosktores in that area are not as well stocked as the bookstores in  
Orange County, which is home to sizable Arab and Arabophone  
communities. The most notable and recent of the latter groups include  
resettled Somali, Eritrean, Chadian, Libyan and Sudanese families, as I  
learned when I interpret on their behalf at public healthcare clinics  
and social services offices in Orange and LA Counties).

HTH. Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards,

Stephen H. Franke
San Pedro, California

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Date: 21 Jul 2004
From:info at arabictrans.com
Subject:Childrens books response

Hi saw your post to arabic-l. Go to: http://www.neelwafurat.com this is  
an Amazon style online bookshop. I think they have what you are looking  
for. Let me know how things turn out.

Hikmat Faraj

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