It is becoming more and more common to hear that children, adolescents and young adults have problems with basic cultural skills like reading. Reading in particular is becoming increasingly difficult for many, but there is reliable help in the form of children’s and young adult books offered by the Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag.
Promoting reading for children and young adults means promoting language skills. For the editorial that promise means that every book supports targeted language acquisition, which is the acquisition of knowledge. Learning to read is encouraged in the books through questions. Most readers enjoy answering questions about what they have read.
Below we will first explain why reading is so important for children and adolescents, then we will look at the various children’s and young adult’s books of the Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag.
Why reading is important for children and young adults
Reading is a crucial cultural skill that enables the reader to absorb information in a self-determined manner and to question it independently. Of course this skill needs to be learned and practiced, the more you practice the better you become. For this reason, many of the books in our publishing house are published with questions and further information to specifically promote reading.
Stories bring knowledge
Many of the books published by Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag are bilingual or multilingual, there are, of course, many different languages. Children and young adults should also learn to read in different languages. That widens their knoledge. Stories convey knowledge on a wide variety of topics and, in addition to reading, they promote languages.
A Variation of children’s and young adult books
There is an incredible number of topics and stories. A great selection of books is available for every taste and reading age, as well as for a wide range of reading or language abilities. The Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag offers books and therefore also stories for children starting with 3 year old readers leading up to books for teenagers and young adults. The catalog not only contains lists of the relevant books, but also reading samples, so please feel free to take advantage of the options.
Books in different languages
A unique selling point of the publishing house is that books are published in different languages; many books can be read in bilingual editions in so called reversible books (starting in one language from one side and the second language from the other side), and other books are published in up to six languages in just one edition. The languages currently offered include: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Turkish, Arabic or Persian… with this in mind, discover our multilingual books for children and young adults, you’ll be thrilled.
Books in Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag
A word about the books published by Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag. There are children’s and young adult books in the areas of non-fiction, but as well fairy tales, retellings of german classics, pictorial dictionaries, cookbooks, adventure books, everyday stories, young adult novels, short stories, picture books and always new adventure stories. Many of the children’s and young adult books are edited in foreign language or multilingual book editions; the books are all listed in the catalog on the publisher’s website and provided with a reading sample so that you can get a first impression. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn about foreign languages by reading books of the Friedrich-Maerker-Verlag.