

The book also comes with a dedicate page where all the স্বরবর্ণ and ব্যাঞ্জনবর্ণ are in one place to go through the letters and alphabets more easily. We have also add pronunciations of each alphabets to help the children understand how to speak the words better.

You could read through the book and tell stories about one of your memorable riskshaw (রিকশা) rides or how kathal (কাঁঠাল) is our national fruit and Dhaka (ঢাকা) is our capital city and how deeply we feel about eating rice (ভাত) for both lunch and dinner. We tried to brainstorm and add pictures or illustrations to represent Bangladesh as much as we could to give the children an idea of what Bangladesh is famous for. Hopefully, this book will help Bengali parents everywhere fill that void and start a wonderful habit for their children of reading Bengali books. Bangla is the national language of Bangladesh and Official language in many states of India such as West Bengal, Tripura, Barak Valley region of the State of Assam. Major themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism, human relations, romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of and consequent events in Bangladesh, and opposition to religious fundamentalism. As immigrants, living away from the motherland, we often miss out on typical Bangali street food, the excitement of Puja or Eid, the শীতের পিঠা and last but not least, the joy of being able to buy and read books written in our own language from local bookshops. He was regarded the unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh. Not only just the mother tongue but also teaching different languages to Freya has always been very important to us as parents and the beginning of approaching towards that goal almost always starts with teaching her the alphabets. This book was inspired by Freya, my 11 months old daughter whose parents are Bengali, was born in the UK and now lives in Italy.
