Project Description

 “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart”           

                                               Nelson Mandela    

          

                        

“Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”

Link to International Children’s Library

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If you are looking for Home Language texts to buy, you may like to check the links here; however, please be aware we haven’t vetted them, so they don’t come with a guarantee – they are just suggestions to help.

You Are Special Bookstore

Asia Bookroom

Language Lizard

Tulika Books

Foreign Language Book Sources

Culture for Kids

The Willesden Bookshop

Tamarind

Multilingual Books

Home Language Donations

We are working to develop and update our Home Language  collections.  If you have any recent titles in languages not yet represented in the library, we’d be keen to hear from you if you have a donation. Sadly, we can’t take everything, so it is always worth chatting to one of the librarians first.