Feelings

Launching an interactive reading series based on the Little Pim foreign-language learning products, this story centers on panda Little Pim's emotions when he gets lost. Readers are asked to pull tabs and lift flaps to reveal photographs of human children whose facial expressions match Pim's feelings; the emotions (scared, shy, etc.) are translated into French and Spanish along with phonetic pronunciations. One boy smiles in his first image, but after pulling the tab, he's fearful like Pim. Another boy happily holds a milkshake in his picture: "Oops! He's not scared!" Levine smoothly integrates foreign language vocabulary into her lesson on recognizing emotions. Available simultaneously: Little Pim: Colors. Ages 4%E2%80%938. (Aug.)