I Want My Banana! Romanian-English - Bilingual Edition

Monkey is very upset. He's hungry and he can't find his banana! The other jungle animals all want to help ... but are they really trying to be his friend? Use the magic of this beautifully illustrated story to encourage a love of books and reading. There is a bilingual text in English and Romanian, and a picture dictionary at the back of the book.

About the author

Mary risk is the pseudonym for the author Elizabeth Laird, an award-winning British writer of children’s fiction and travel, known for the large body of folktales which she compiled from regions of Ethiopia. The author uses the pseudonym for her TV and educational writing, including the TV adaptation of The Animals of Farthing Wood. Under the Mary Risk name, Elizabeth has also penned several stories for children learning English as a foreign language.Alex illustrated I Want My Banana in the I CAN READ series for b small publishing.Maria is a translator from Bucharest, Romania. She is currently based in Germany, where she is doing her PhD in literary studies. Maria loves books, coffee and her dog, Foxy. 

Summary

Monkey is very upset. He’s hungry and he can’t find his banana! The other jungle animals all want to help ... but are they really trying to be his friend? Use the magic of this beautifully illustrated story to encourage a love of books and reading. There is a bilingual text in English and Romanian, and a picture dictionary at the back of the book.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Risk, Risk Mary
• Assisted by: Alex Wolf (Illustration), Wolf Alex (Illustration), Maria Tudosescu (Translation)
• Publisher: Bounce
• Languages: English, Rumanian
• Age Recommendation: ages 2 to 6
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781916851085
• ISBN: 978-1-916851-08-5
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 216 mm x 4 mm
• Series: Bilingual Stories
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / General, Picture storybooks, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Romanian, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, 0-5 years, Fiction, Picture Book, Non-character, Non Tie-in, JUVENILE FICTION / Science & Nature / General, Educational: Languages other than English, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Study / General, Bilingual, Romanian, wild animals, rainforest