“Bibi's World”

Beautiful festive morning. I don't know why, but maybe it's the mother's drive of satisfaction and joyfulness inside me turning into a kind of gratitude made me write to you. Story after story, and you can see children's rejoicing. Among the children's eyes that watch Bibi so cheerfully is my 5-year-old autisitic son. When he closed his ears upset by Bibi's voice, sensually overwhelmed, I thought that even cartoons on Macedonian language would be an impossible mission. But, one day, when I least expected, I saw this little girl with the same yellow dress on a piece of paper. For you maybe it is an ordinary drawing. For me, it's magic. "Bibi and Santa Claus from Zaz" was so on point and resulted with a smile, interest and attention. We draw Bibi and Bobi next to her. Unexpectedly and spontaneously, Bibi came in quietly and came out cheerfully from a world that was closed and a little bit different. Joyfulness. Finally, although it is hard to tell you about the felling of satisfaction for something seemingly so small, for me as a mother of a child with special needs is so big, and all I can do is to express gratitude that someone, somewhere, made that black-haired girl.

Bibi is new and refreshing media story which offers different and playful ways of learning and аdopting certain knowledge or concepts connected with a child's life and its preschool and early school age. I learn about Bibi from my daughter, she is my example for quality. I observe and participate in Bibi's New Year's song on a daily base. Singing along and learning the song from my teacher means another great opportunity for spending a quality time with my child. The karaoke video gives an opportunity the whole family to sing out loud. On the other hand, Bibi gives an opportunity to talk and discuss about some new and more modern aspects of today's families, about sodality, helping others and about diversity. The well-conceived content as well as Bibi's visual world offers an opportunity for developing a child's fantasy. For me, as a parent of a girl, it is also important the visibile emancipation of girls through more confident thinking and acting. I hope that Bibi's character will encourage more discussion topics in many families and she will bring closer children and their parents even more.

With my experience as a teacher so far I can confirm that this is the best way to easily learn the alphabet with all the senses. It would really help me in my work. We grew up with another picture-book, but this one is more modern and in line with children's needs, possibilities and demands. My children love it.