Brand-new, Interactive, Talking, PAPER Books Bring Children Diverse Languages this Spring
“One of the best ways to bring together countries is through language education that goes beyond knowing the language on a linguistic level. We need to understand the meaning and cultural behavior behind every word. In TA-DA!, we have found a leader that shares this philosophical approach.”
Dr. Javier De La Fuente, Director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
“The artwork in all three books is exceptional, each glorious full-page illustration [builds] an adventure unto itself that children find absolutely captivating… The audio is perfectly attuned to the impeccable artwork and, together, they weave a multisensory reading experience that gets youngsters excitedly discovering something new with every pass through the pages. Each of the series' three titles offers a unique, imagination-stirring adventure that spurs curiosity, creativity, language skills, and more!”
Dan Levy, Director of Tillywig Toy and Media Awards
***Winner of Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards and Tillywig Brainchild Award***
Language Adventures Series:
A Funny Day at The Zoo, English and Mandarin Chinese
An Awesome Ocean Tale, English and French
A Magical Camping Trip, German and Spanish
Created by Michelle Glorieux
Illustrated by Kelsey Suan Composed by Kip Jones
Music produced by 4x Grammy Award-winning Jesse Lewis With Guest performer, 15-Grammy Award-winning Béla Fleck
TA-DA!’s award-winning Language Adventures series features three adventure-filled stories in talking, interactive board books thoughtfully designed to spark language skills and imagination for our youngest learners (ages 0-5), right at the optimal age for language acquisition. The series includes six debuting titles (on-sale April 6, 2021; paper-over-board: $21.99): A Funny Day at The Zoo (in English and Mandarin Chinese), An Awesome Ocean Tale (in English and French), and A Magical Camping Trip (in Spanish and German).
In A Funny Day at The Zoo, a little boy discovers a secret at a not-so-typical zoo. In An Awesome Ocean Tale, bath time turns into an enchanting discovery of an under-sea world. In A Magical Camping Trip, a backyard playdate becomes an adventurous excursion of friendship and imagination.
With the help of revolutionary and seamless paper technology, kids simply touch the paper in an eco-friendly board book and TA-DA! the book magically comes to life with native speaker pronunciation, real animal sounds, and delightful, original music by 4x Grammy Award-winning Jesse Lewis. Each book affords a unique musical soundscape, exposing the little ones to a variety of musical genres and instruments. Each title is also vetted by leading education institutions worldwide. A Funny Day at the Zoo features real animal sounds vetted by the San Francisco Zoo. A Magical Camping Trip book features banjo legend and 15x Grammy Award-winning Béla Fleck.
TA-DA!’s Language Adventures series offers the most advanced and most crisp sound quality on the market today. Created by a team that includes a 4-time Grammy Award winner and an illustrator from the team of the Oscar-winning animated short “Hair Love,” TA-DA! Language Adventures series creates a delightful, engaging, cinematic, and immersive reading experience like none before.
TA-DA!’s global sales and distribution are handled by Two Rivers Distribution and Ingram Content Group. Each title will be available in six languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin, German, French, and Luxembourgish) by the end of 2021. All 18 are currently available as interactive ebooks on Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Fnac and others.
A fourth title in the series, A Galactic Space Adventure, is also being developed with illustrator Kelsey Suan.
About the Author
Michelle Glorieux enjoys culturally diverse living with her trilingual family (French, Dutch and English) in her husband’s native Belgium. She lives and breathes language; has degrees in both language and radio/TV/film; has been a journalist and has taught French and English around the globe from kindergarten to university. (Photo credit: Mehdi Farahmand, Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce)
About the Illustrator
Kelsey Suan’s background art alit the recent Academy Award-winning animated short film “Hair Love.” Kelsey grew up with both Filipino and Mexican heritage in Los Angeles and graduated with a BFA from CSUF in Los Angeles.
About the Music Producer
Jesse Lewis is a four-time Grammy Award-winning music producer and sound recording engineer who is well known for his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel, and many more. Jesse has recently been nominated by the Grammys for the 2020 Producer of the Year (Classical Music) and Best Engineered Album (Classical).
MEDIA CONTACT:
Cathy Li, cathy@tadalp.com
Paper-over-board: $21.99 / E-book: $9.99
Page count: 26 / Trim size: 7 inches x 7 inches / Audience: Ages 0-5
On sale: April 6, 2021
TA-DA! Language Adventures Series Titles:
A Funny Day at the Zoo (English edition)
Paper-over-board: 9780998830506 * E-book: 9781952583117
在动物园奇妙的一天/ A Funny Day at the Zoo (Mandarin Chinese/ 普通话 edition)
Paper-over-board: 9780998830551 * E-book: 9781952583155
An Awesome Ocean Tale (English edition)
Paper-over-board: 9780998830544 * E-book: 9781952583162
Un incroyable conte d'océan (An Awesome Ocean Tale, French/ français language edition)
Paper-over-board: 9780998830582 * E-book: 9781952583193
Ein magischer Campingausflug (A Magical Camping Trip, German/ Deutsch language edition)
Paper-over-board: 9781952583032 * E-book: 9781952583230
Un viaje mágico de campamento (A Magical Camping Trip, Spanish/ español language edition)
Paper-over-board: 9781952583025 * E-book: 9781952583223