In celebration of International Mother Language Day, two student clubs from Penn State Brandywine visited Tyler Arboretum to lead a Saturday morning storytime. But this wasn’t like a typical storytime – the Sustainovation Club and Multicultural Student Club added their linguistic knowledge and read books in a variety of languages.
These are the books and languages the students shared with Tyler’s visitors young and old:
- The Apple Tree by Jane Thai (a dual language book – English and Mandarin Chinese)
- I Like Pickles by Jane Thai (a dual language book – English and Mandarin Chinese)
- Das Schweinchen Mit Dem Ringelschwanz by Alexandra Dannenmann (German)
- The Hungry Little Catipillar/Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt by Eric Carle (German)
- The Giraffe that Ate the Moon/La Girafe Qui a Mange La Lune by Aralie Rangel (a dual language book – English and French)
- Goodnight, Panda!/Bonne nuit Petit Panda! (a dual language book – English and French)
- Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Korean)
- Diez manzanas en la cabeza! by Dr. Seuss (Spanish)
- La Luz de Lucia by Margarita del Mazo and Silvia Alvarez (Spanish)
- Banana for Two by Ellen Mayer (a dual language book – English and Hindi)
- Sleep Tight, Little Wolf by Barbara Brinkmann (a dual language book – English and Japanese)
- Lily’s Surprise/La sorpresa di Lilli by Madhumita Mocharla (a dual language book – English and Italian)
- Jojo’s Playful Day/Una giornata di giochi con Jojo by Sujatha Lalgudi (a dual language book – English and Italian)
- One Rainy Day/Um Dia Chuvoso by Valeri Gorbachev (a dual language book – English and Portuguese)
- My Snow Day/Meu Dia de Neve by Ally Nathaniel (a dual language book – English and Portuguese)
- The Rainbow Fish (a dual language book – English and Vietnamese)
- One Rainy Day by Valeri Gorbachev (a dual language book – English and Vietnamese)
Students also had bookmarks available for kids to color, as well as blank books where they could write their own story with stickers and color stamps. We utilized SCC grant funding to purchase 75 new carpet squares made of recycled carpet fibers for Tyler to use for future programming.
The Sustainovation events at Tyler Arboretum’s Multilingual Storytime in February 2020 supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #4 – Quality Education, and Goal #17 – Partnerships For The Goals.