What Is Your Language is a neat multicultural picture book. This book is about a little boy who sets out to travel the world to meet new friends. During his journey he visits ten countries. As he meets new friends during his travels, each friend says a small phrase so that he can hear the way their language sounds. The Languages mentioned in the book are: Spanish, Chinese, Swahili, Arabic, Japanese, Inuktitut, Russian, French, German, and English.

This book is colorful and somewhat a simple read. It had a neat world map in the front and back and interesting facts about languages noted on the last page. This would be a fun book for introducing a child to new languages. I liked it because it was easy to understand and I could use it in the classroom.

As classroom extension ideas I would do the following: In this book the author has included a song titled, What Is Your Language? I would incorporate music (learning the song) in with reading the book. The children could also dance if they would like to. Next, I would have the children work in groups to perform small skits from an assigned page in the book. I would give each group a country/language and they could act out the scene that corresponds with their country. ( )

What is Your Language? is a book about a young boy who enjoys traveling around the world. He goes to many different countries and asks each country what their language is. Each of the countries tell the young boy and tell him how it sounds.

This is a cute book to introduce different languages to young children. I enjoyed this book because when I was in elementary school we learned about saying hi, bye, yes, and no in different languages. This book reminded me of those times.

As a classroom extension, I would have the students all sing the little song at the back of the book. Another idea is that we would learn about each of the languages and learn a few words from each language.