European Children's Travelling Language Library
London (UK), January 2012 - The European Children's Travelling Language Library "Eurolib" is a European Union-funded education project. It is targeted at children who have recently started to learn a foreign language and has been used in schools across Europe with great success.
Eurolib offers its users
- exposure to the rich heritage of European languages and cultures
- motivation to learn languages
- exploration of reading as a great from of autonomous lifelong learning
- support for emerging literacy
Travelling libraries of the most beautifully illustrated children's books in six European languages (English, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Czech, and Finnish) travel from school to school across Europe. Each school keeps the library for a period and has to carry out a number of educational and collaborative activities before, during, and after the visit.
The Eurolib libraries and the pedagogic resources are now complete and ready for schools across Europe to use. You can download the documents about using the libraries and book a visit. (User institutions are required to pay transport costs.)