Gibberish
Reach Out and Read
English - October 12, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Kids & Family Education for Kids earlychildhoodeducation pediatrics books children earlyreaders librarians literacy reachoutandread reading wellvisits Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Moving to a new country is a challenge for everyone, but especially so for children. New immigrants often face pressure to assimilate quickly — to ‘dress like us’ and talk ‘like us’ — and stop speaking the languages that ‘don’t make sense’ to our ears. Young Vo, author of the new children’s picture book “Gibberish”, joins us to discuss these common tropes and says it’s not the newcomer that’s speaking “gibberish”; it’s us.