365 Days of Baby Einstein

Title: 365 Days of Baby Einstein By: The Baby Einstein Company, LLC
Type: Hardcover

About:The 365 Days of Baby Einstein Picture Book introduces your child to classic art, language and early learning concepts in fun, interactive ways. This stimulating adventure features charming illustrations, real-life photographs and rhythmic text that take you and your little one on a new interactive journey each day of the year.

Parent tips for fun one-on-one learning experiences for you and your little one
A stimulating multi-sensory adventure
Sturdy, hardcover edition
Appropriate for ages birth and up

The 365 Days of Baby Einstein Picture Book is specially designed to provide daily interaction, allowing you and your child to explore a new and different page each day.

Also organized by color-coded category for easy access to a variety of learning experiences, 365 Days of Baby Einstein uses baby-friendly text and provides parent usage tips permitting delightful one-on-one learning experiences for you and your little one. Featuring beautifully illustrated full-color images reproduced on high-quality glossy pages in this hardcover bound edition, 365 Days of Baby Einstein will provide you and your little one with endless experiences for discovery in an educational resource that your family will treasure.

Each of the Baby Einstein books uses fun Baby Einstein characters in bright, happy scenes that will make these among your favorite books. 365 Days of Baby Einstein Picture Book will earn a permanent place in your child’s library for years to come.

Ulasan:
Tips-tips yang saya baca di bahagian akhir kulit buku ini sangat membantu saya dalam usaha memulakan proses mengajar dan mendidik bayi saya yang pada waktu itu berusia 3 bulan.

Walaupun buku ini sebenarnya untuk anak kecil berumur 1 tahun, namun saya gemar dedahkan bayi saya kepada pembacaan yang lebih mencabar dari usia sebenarnya. Saya ulangi pembacaan buku ini buat bayi saya sehingga kini anak saya telah pun berumur 2 tahun 8 bulan dan di sambung pula oleh adiknya.

Warna dan objek-objek menarik mudah di kenalpasti oleh bayi, bayi dapat beri ransangan dan tertarik tanpa jemu. Lengkap dengan pengetahuan mengenai, rutin harian bayi, keadaan persekitaran, warna, objek, mengenali perasaan, artikel mengenai alam haiwan, cuaca, pakaian, makanan, sayur-sayuran dan galeri seni.

Saya lakukan setiap aktiviti di dalam buku ini bersama-sama bayi saya dan bayi saya begitu gembira apabila berjaya menjawabnya. Alhamdulillah, melalui pembacaan buku ini saya dapat mendekatkan ikatan hubungan saya bersama anak-anak.

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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Title: Totto-chan By: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (Author), Dorothy Britton (Translator)
Type: Paperback

About: This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love.

This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man-its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi-who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

In real life, the Totto-chan of the book has become one of Japan’s most popular television personalities-Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.

She attributes her success in life to this wonderful school and its headmaster.

The charm of this account has won the hearts of millions of people of all ages and made this book a ruanaway bestseller in Japan, with sales hitting the 4.5 million mark in its first year.

Author: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, daughter of the celebrated violinist, was voted Japan’s most popular television personality fourteen times. She studied to become an opera singer but then became an actress instead, winning a prestigious award for her work in radio and television.

She spent 1972 in New York studying acting, and was critically acclaimed in Japan for her leading role in works by Albee and Shaffer and in Melchior Lengyel’s Ninotchka: Her daily television talk show, Tetsuko’s Room, is still going strong after more than twenty years. Japan’s first such program, it was recently awarded television’s highest prize. This and the other shows on which she regularly appears all enjoy top viewer ratings.

Devoted to welfare and conservation, Kuroyanagi is Asia’s first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and serves on the board of the Worldwide Fun for Nature. The Totto Foundation-financed with her book royalties-provides professional training to deaf actors, with whom Kuroyanagi often appears. Kuroyanagi has twicw brought America’s National Theater of the Deaf to Japan, acting with them in sign language.

She is the author of ten books.

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Perasaan saya sangat teruja sewaktu pertama kali membaca karya ini (ketika saya berumur 16 tahun) kerana kisah benar yang dipaparkan terlalu unik dan berbeza daripada pengalaman biasa. Cara ibubapa cik Tetsuko dalam mendidiknya sangat kritis, penyayang malah cukup progresif dalam pembinaan sahsiah anaknya bagi jangka masa panjang. Saya kagumi sikap ibubapa beliau yang tidak pernah ambil jalan mudah bagi mengasuh beliau tetapi memberi kepercayaan dan pilihan terbaik untuk anak mereka serta prihatin untuk mendengar cerita si anak kecil walaupun tampak remeh di mata masyarakat.

Tuan Sosaku Kobayashi, guru besar di sekolah Tomoe Gakuen tempat beliau belajar telah beri impak terbesar kepada saya. Cara didikan beliau yang sungguh luar biasa dan pemikiran meluas beliau dalam isu pendidikan kanak-kanak telah membuat saya mengambil keputusan rasmi dalam hidup saya untuk membuat “Home School” kepada bakal anak-anak saya. Saya ingin terapkan budaya ilmu yang diperkenalkan oleh beliau buat anak-anak saya kerana beliau sangat mementingkan pendapat dan kebebasan menuntut ilmu bagi kanak-kanak yang nyata malah terbukti dapat meningkatkan tahap IQ kanak-kanak tersebut (semua anak didiknya berjaya di persada dunia dengan kasih sayang yang di tunjukkan oleh beliau).

Belajar di dalam gerabak keretapi, boleh belajar apa sahaja yang di minati, cara pemakanan, nyanyian, sukan, kebajikan; semuanya begitu berbeza dari pendidikan formal.

Alhamdulillah, saya gembira dan kini saya telah pun mendidik anak-anak saya mengikut acuan hasil pembacaan saya ini. Ianya buku kecil namun memberi impak besar kepada saya, suami dan anak-anak.