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Tutor english or attend a rural village book party with this laotian literacy organization. Children at a big brother mouse book party in laos during our first decade, we encouraged visitors to sponsor a book party in a rural school. Big brother mouse publishes books that make literacy fun, for children in laos. Teaching english in laos with big brother mouse the determined. Students ranging in age from 3 to 23 enjoy many approaches to education at big sister mouse. Attending a book party in a lao villages big brother mouse. Big brother mouse book party in laotian village near luang prabang belle mcdougall. The books are written and produced inhouse and distribution is achieved through book parties held at schools and villages. Big brother mouse is an organization here that works to publish books in the lao language translations and original stories, both and then bring them to kids in rural villages all over laos via one of their book parties. Children will talk about books, sing songs at the end, each child will select a book of their own very likely the first book theyve ever. For more info on supporting a book party please visit.

We believe books will spread widely only if people come to value them enough to pay for them, which will support businesses to do more publishing and, most crucially, distribution. Our new school, big sister mouse, has students ranging from preschool to young adults. In its first year, big brother mouse published 30 books, and has continued at approximately that rate. Big brother mouse book party in laotian village near. We play games that develop number and word skills, geography and strategic thinking, spatial thinking and teamwork. Ive fallen in love with big brother mouse association, with its curious and. Big brother mouse uwcsea international school in singapore. It continues to run book parties in rural schools, and that program has expanded considerably, with 31 of these events in 2007, 196 in 2008, increasing to 510 in 2010. Big brother mouse book parties get books into lao villages. Sonesoulilat nicknamed sone was 16 when he set up that first book party. A book party with big brother mouse four off the beaten path. Spend a day at big sister mouse in the countryside. When we started big brother mouse in 2006, most children in laos had never seen a book, other than a textbook and textbooks dont make literacy fun.

Lao students reading their first books at a school book party. There was no system for getting books into rural villages, some of which involve a day or two of travel from the nearest road. Big brother mouse luang prabang 2020 all you need to know. A january 2017 visit to the big brother mouse bookshop in luang.

Sorry, there are no tours or activities available to book online for the dates you. Theres no good system for getting books into the hands of rural children in laos. People from around the province, and sometimes from outside, come to the hospital in luang prabang. Books are still too scarce, but through the efforts of many people and organizations, including big brother mouse, theyve become more common.