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`This book is not just for educators of emergent bilinguals, it is for all people interested in the teaching of language and reading to young children and because it provides food for thought on more than one occasion it is a book to be seriously considered′ - Language and Learning `Making Sense of a New World deserves a place on the bookshelf of every primary teacher whose pupils are learning to read English as an additional language. It may not solve all the problems, but it will do more to help us understand them than any other book for teachers currently available′ - Times Education Supplement How do young children go about learning to read in a new language? Is learni