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Little Pim in The Toy Book
Little Pim was featured in the March/April 2010 edition of The Toy Book:
THE TOY BOOK is the leading trade magazine serving the toy industry. The Toy Book is the authority on news, trends, new products and happenings within the industry.
With the continuous advancement of kids’ electronics and the trend of children “growing up” at a faster pace, The Toy Book remains the top source for what’s new and what’s hot in the toy industry. The Toy Book is a “must-read” for anyone in the toy business.
Their website is http://toybook.com/
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Memorial Day Travel With Little Pim
We're thrilled to announce that Little Pim was selected to win two prestigious awards this month! Our Gift Set Plus has been chosen to win a Dr. Toy's Best Vacation Children's Product Award.
Dr. Toy, Stevanne Auerbach, PhD, has been for many years one of the nation's and world’s leading experts on play, toys, and children's products. With 30 years of direct experience, Dr. Auerbach includes educationally oriented, developmental and skill building products from the best large and small companies in her four annual award programs.
As you plan your Memorial Day getaway, be sure to take Little Pim along- our Digital Downloads are compatible with your mobile device or smartphone.
Our second award of the month was given by the Dove Foundation Review Board. Our Spanish 3-Pak (Vol. I) has been deemed "Family Approved".
The Dove Family Approved Seal is awarded to movies, DVDs, made for TV movies and specials, books and other entertainment products that portray and encourage positive values.
The positive feedback we receive daily from customers is always an encouragement and we're delighted that these recognized media outlets agree with our Little Pim parents.
One Laptop Per Child Partners with Little Pim
One Laptop per Child
(OLPC), a nonprofit whose mission is to provide every child access to new channels of learning and self-expression, and Little Pim, the award-winning foreign language learning program for children, announced today a partnership to bring Lim Pim content to the XO laptop.
“We are thrilled to partner with OLPC and help bring Little Pim content to millions of bright young minds around the world.”
The addition of Little Pim to the XO laptop will make learning English an enjoyable and easy experience for young children. Little Pim’s unique Entertainment Immersion Method® leads with a fun character (Little Pim the Panda) and provides total immersion in the language. The method engages a child’s love of play by watching real kids and animation. Little Pim’s method helps children retain new vocabulary, while enhancing analytical, memory and concentration skills. Children can learn over 360 words and phrases using all of the Little Pim products.
“We are delighted to join forces with Little Pim to make learning language more fun for children. OLPC and Little Pim share a common philosophy that learning should be a joyous experience and that children learn best when learning and play are seamless activities,” said Rodrigo Arboleda, Chairman and CEO of the One Laptop per Child Association. “We look forward to establishing additional strategic alliances with other providers of innovative children’s software and content.”
Little Pim CEO Julia Pimsleur Levine said, “We are thrilled to partner with OLPC and help bring Little Pim content to millions of bright young minds around the world.”
About One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child (OLPC at http://www.laptop.org) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression. In partnership with the public and private sectors and non-governmental organizations and supported by comprehensive implementation and pedagogical services, OLPC seeks to provide each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power connected laptop that empowers individual learning and growth.
About Little Pim®
Little Pim is an award-winning foreign language immersion series for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Between birth and the age of five, the human brain is hard-wired for language learning, and Little Pim unique Entertainment Immersion Method® helps families take advantage of this brief window, by making language learning easy, fun and effective. Founded on clinical research in early childhood development and linguistics, Little Pim is available 11 languages including Spanish, French, Chinese and Italian, with videos, music, books, flash cards, gift sets and more. Check out why Little Pim is the number one way to teach kids a foreign language at www.littlepim.com.
Leap Frog Partners With Little Pim
EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:LF), a leader in educational entertainment, and Little Pim, the award-winning foreign language learning program for children, today announced a partnership to bring Little Pim content to LeapFrog's LeapPad. Content will…
Little Pim in the Huffington Post
What are the three things you wish you had as a kid?
The Huffington Post's Hilary Sheinbaum wishes she'd had Little Pim when she was younger.
"Little Pim easily teaches young children a second language. I'm not sure if I'm more impressed by their range of available languages including Spanish, French and Hebrew (there are 10 languages total) taught with DVDs, books and flashcards, or if I'm equally inspired by the adorable (Little Pim) Panda that teaches these dialects.
Had this bright bear been available during my youth, I would have been a seven-language social butterfly."
A visual tour of Toy Fair 2012
We had a great time at Toy Fair this year, where Little Pim was exhibiting with hundreds of other toy companies. So what's new this year? Take a tour through Toy Fair 2012, with our photo and video tour of the exhibition floor!
If you follow my blog, you'll know I was at CES last month checking out cool new tech toys. I've been noticing a more toys that integrate your iPad or iPod touch into physical play.
Here's one that's a bit like space invaders, if you remember that.
These are the Heart to Heart dolls. Kind of like the American Girl Dolls, except they're from all over the world and age a little younger. We love the idea of introducing kids to different cultures and countries, what a cool new line!
Lego has just launched a new line of "girl-friendly" pink and white legos. They are doing a big marketing push to get more girls to play with legos, which seems to involve just making everything pink! Above is a gal made of legos, and her little dog too...
Walking my ladybug! These balloons have little legs and were a big hit this year. Also available in giraffe, elephant and puppy.
Little Pim-ers at our booth!
Dolls after my own heart! They're made by Corrolle, a French company that has made its way to the US.
My boys have spent hours making marble mazes but I was never able to crack the code (my towers would fall over as soon as I dropped the marble!). This new version from Mind Ware is so much easier to use that even I can use it, without asking any help from my four year old tower builder!
No Toy Fair would be complete without a huge lego creation for photo ops. Here's the Hulk snaring another victim.
Bilingual Panel
Little Pim was proud to co-host a Bilingual Education Panel in New York City in November 2011 with Big City Moms and Kidville, featuring some of the most knowledgeable educators. Watch this 4 minute video to see the highlights. Enjoy, and let us know if you have any questions of your own.
Julia Pimsleur Levine
The best multicultural gifts for young kids - Holiday Gift Guide
It’s time to buy presents! My antennae are up for gifts that are fun, educational, and will help our budding language learners to see themselves as world citizens. Your child is never too young to start playing with toys that feature other countries, languages and cultures. And if your children are already speaking and starting to acquire a second or third language, these toys can help reinforce their wider world view. Here are a few of my faves for this holiday season. Amuse-toi bien! (have fun)
BABIES (0-14 MONTHS)
Your child will love these brightly colored blocks from Haba (if you don’t fancy Seville, they also have Cordoba!). With 45 pieces, this set will keep your little architect busy for hours. Brighten up your baby’s nursery and be the only one on the block (pun intended) to have a Spanish city under construction… Buy it here
Made in the French Alps with natural rubber and non toxic paint, Sophie has been safely cuddled and chewed by thousands of babies. She is soft light and easy to grasp and fits perfectly into little hands. She makes a happy sound when squeezed… Babies especially love her bumpy head to soothe their teething gums. But if you speak French to her, don’t expect her to talk back, she’ll just look at you in her “coquette” way. Also comes in Vanilla! Buy it here
TODDLERS (15 MO – 3 YEARS OLD)
Introduce your children to beautifully made wooden toys and to how some of our most endangered species live! Your kids will discover an Elephant, Tiger and Panda (our favorite, of course) in the “Asia Series” from Plan Toys. They are made of natural, chemical free recycled bamboo and can sit and stand just like real animals. They are finished with non-toxic dye and recommended for 3+, but could be played with by toddlers as well. Make sure to show your wee ones where China is on the globe! ($34) Buy it here
These adorable plates teach words in French – choose from delightful farm animals or Pirates and Princess themes for your little swarthy crew and precious princess (make that “une princesse”). My son Emmett is 7 ½ and I still haven’t managed to give away his animals plate from this series (little brother Adrian is enjoying it now). Buy it here
PRESCHOOLERS
What better way to get familiar with kids of different countries than with this oversized floor puzzle featuring kids from around the world? At only $10.75 it’s a great gift that will keep your child busy and expose him or her to not only to kids’ native costumes as well as the flags associated with the countries where they live. Buy it here
From our friends at GeoToys, this bingo game includes 50 country cards, representing the world’s most populous nations. Each card lists that country’s capital, land area, population, and geographic location. The goal of GeoBingo™ World is to get 5 countries in a row on one of the 8 GeoBingo™ Boards. ($18.99) Buy it here
Last but not least, what gift guide would be complete without our very own trilingual books? Featuring French, Spanish and English, these board books are perfect for budding linguists and chock full of lift the flaps, pull tabs and Little Pim antics. Books are in English with Spanish and French words taught throughout and phonetics for parents who don't speak the language. COLORS and FEELINGS, $8.95 each. Buy it here
FOR ADULTS
This excellent book by Homa Sabet Tavangar has practical suggestions for raising children with a global perspective. I got several ideas from this book of fun things to do with my kids, I am sure you'll find new cool new activities too! Makes a great gift for parents who are travelers and want to share their love of other cultures and countries with their little ones. Buy it here
7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child
This is one of the most practical, well-written books I have found about raising a bilingual child. Dr. Naomi Steiner is a developmental-behavoir pediatrician at Tufts Medical Center in Botson and an expert in the methods used to teach children more than one language. 7 Easy Steps... includes worksheets that help you map out your family's bilingual action plan, ways to involve parents who don't speak the language being taught, and tips for keeping your child motivated and excited about language learning. A terrific resource and road map! Buy it here
Little Pim on the Huffington Post
Little Pim was recently mentioned in an article on the Huffington Post about the benefits of introducing young children to a second language. "Among toddlers as young as 2 years, bilingual youngsters outscored their monolingual counterparts in the area known as “executive functioning.” To toddlers, this comes down to sorting shapes, but for older kids and adults, executive functioning includes important mental tasks such as planning, strategizing, organizing and goal-setting."
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Little Pim Wins a 2011 Tillywig Brain Child Award
We're so pleased to announce that Little Pim German has won a 2011 Tillywig Brain Child Award!Brain Child awards are specifically for "exciting products that energize the mind while seamlessly blending fun and learning". Below are the wonderful things Tillywig had to say about Little Pim: "It's been well established that children have a window of time in their early years during which they can easily learn multiple languages. It would be a shame not to take advantage of that golden window, and Little Pim is an early language-learning system designed to do just that. The German Gift Set Plus comes with a boxed set of 60 German word and phrase cards and a boxed 3-pak of German language DVDS introducing over 180 words and phrases, as well as an 8-inch Little Pim Panda plush toy, all packaged in a reusable see-through tote. Little Pim is a cute and peppy panda, appearing throughout the DVDs and on every language card. The live action and animation make the DVDs highly engaging, and each well-illustrated flash card also denotes which DVD teaches that card's word or phrase in order to help reinforce learning. The DVDs are lots of fun, very child appropriate, and parents enjoy learning from them as much as do children! Little Pim offers products in 10 languages."
Thank you for supporting us and helping bring access to fun foreign language education to children all over the United States (and beyond!).
