The interactive form of reading involves pictures and animations whereby the children look at an illustration of the book (without text) presented on a screen, while the story is being presented by a storyteller. The picture book cinema offers numerous methodological and didactic applications. The biggest advantage of the picture book cinema is of course that I can watch the illustration of the picture book together with a whole class. Unlike a normal reading class, Bilderbuchkino creates an atmosphere that stimulates children’s imagination. And it’s aimed at children between the ages of 4 and 8 years.

The Bilderbuchkino service is offered in two approaches:

• Firstly, the Goethe-Institut Namibia through the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture promotes reading in different school libraries.
• Secondly, the service is offered to Kindergartens and private Schools through either a session at the Goethe-Institut Namibia Library or school premises.

The readings are usually in English. We have translated all the books from our Picture Book Cinema collection in Koha. In Namibia we also have some kindergartens and schools where German is spoken. In these cases, the Picture Book Cinema   is also held in German.

The Goethe-Institut provides all the technical equipment, including the slide show and the reader.

An analogue version of children's book cinema is known as and is also included in our programme.


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