Children’s Gaelic Books now available on CD

“On CD are popular classics”

Pre-school children and their parents living in the Western Isles have a wonderful new resource to add to the ever increasing resources now available within the Croileagain to help with learning Gaelic. This follows the launch of new CDs, containing a collection of children’s popular reading books.

A selection of Gaelic children’s books will for the first time come alive as audio stories, following a new joint initiative between CnaG and Acair the Gaelic books publisher with support from Comann nam Pàrant and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar. Among the books that have been put on CD are popular classics such as ‘An Gruffalo’, ‘Am Fuamhaire Spaideil’ and a number of the ‘Maisy’ series.

“Visual and audio Gaelic learning”

Iona Mactaggart, Gaelic Medium Education Information Officer with CnaG, who led the initiative said, “I’m delighted that we have been able to provide this new resource. I am certain that it will be of huge benefit both to the children and their parents. It is something they can borrow and take home and work with together. I am sure that the CDs will be especially beneficial to parents starting their children off in GMU, and who may just be starting to learn the language themselves. Over the past couple of years I have been inundated with requests for such a resource and it is now very satisfying to see the end product.” She added, “It has been a good experience working with other organisations and individuals, and I’m really grateful to all who were involved for their time and support. I am hoping that we can work together on other projects in the months to come.”

Ten books published by Acair and already available in the Croileagain collections, will now have a CD supporting visual and audio Gaelic learning, in pre-school provision and in the home.

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