Building Bridges with Bilingual Books and Multicultural Resources

Anneke Vanmarcke Forzani is the President and Founder of Language Lizard LLC (www.languagelizard.com), which provides multicultural resources in over 50 languages to schools, libraries, and literacy organizations. She has presented workshops about using multicultural resources to support culturally responsive teaching at educational conferences. Anneke also writes about multicultural issues online and manages the blog Supporting Multicultural Classrooms & Bilingual Families at blog.languagelizard.com. Her mission is to support the academic and social development of dual language learners and help build a generation of culturally aware and understanding global citizens. Anneke has worked in the US and Japan and speaks Dutch, French, and Japanese. She is the author of the forthcoming bilingual children's book, Happy After All.