Learning a second language is child's play with Poppy and Buddy!
Use the power of storytime to help your children soak up a second language. It's faster and easier than vocabulary instruction, and a whole lot more fun!
Here's how we can support your specific pre-school needs:
XL Books
We've developed extra large books to be used at mat time. These XL books (285x300mm) are a whopping 50% bigger than our standard size and are on thicker paper stock to withstand the extra love and attention they will receive from more children.
Discounted Rates
These are available to teachers and educational organisations worldwide - the bigger the order the greater the discount!
Easy Fundraising
The Poppy and Buddy Foundation will donate $1 to your centre for every purchase families make through our website (using a unique code). We’ll provide you with flyers, posters, and app-ready files so you can share this deal with your community.
Downloadable Audio
To ensure children are offline when engaging with their Poppy and Buddy books all of our audio narrations will soon be available to download through Spotify and Apple Music.
Fun, Free, Printable Activities
To reinforce the language learning from our books, we offer fun, free activities that you can download and print straight from our website. These include colouring in, spot the difference, counting pages and more.
Why teach preschool children a second language?
Researchers agree that the earlier a child starts learning a second language, the better. Many believe that second language acquisition skills peak at the age of six or seven.
Preschool years, especially the first three years of life, are a vital period in a child’s life. Children around the age of three or four can learn through play because they're not yet overwhelmed by facts and information, which is something that happens as we grow older.
Using Poppy and Buddy bilingual resources in your classroom can have significant positive outcomes for your students. Compared to monolinguals, bilingual children have more developed cognitive abilities, such as:
✓ Attention focus
✓ Information processing
✓ Distraction resistance
✓ Decision-making
✓ Problem-solving abilities
✓ Judgement
✓ Responsiveness to feedback
Check out our Bilingual Benefits page to learn more about the advantages of learning a second language.
How do I know it works?
We've been developing Poppy and Buddy products for almost a decade so you can rest assured that your kids will love them. We've asked research professionals, parents, and teachers for their unbiased opinions over the years and the results have been overwhelmingly positive.
“The larger books were a hit! Tamariki were super engaged, tracking the pages and sharing observations and items of interest. The colour-coded words and the step-by-step introduction pages at the start of each book are impressive features. We find the Poppy and Buddy books a great resource for children’s language learning and for their literacy skills in general.” Jacqueline Harding – Head Teacher, Arrowtown Preschool
Follow the links to read all about our scientific research and results and how our natural approach to language learning works.
We're always developing and refining our language learning tools so your children get the most effective, engaging, and innovative educational resources on the market, and we're proud to have research supporting our work's positive impact.