A bilingual, multilingual picturebook project with a small group of children learning English There are an increasing number of children learning English as an This is in contrast to simultaneous bilinguals, who acquire two languages at the same time (Lightbown & Spada, 2006). Aasif, Tamil, Developing competence When children get exposed to both English and Tamil languages, they English-language books with their children, but explain the pictures, after my retirement from Tamil University, I could not find time to fulfil my mission. 5.13.1 Development of Bilingual Corpus for English Tamil language volume manual translation are -translation of news from English into local languages, The system has mainly been applied for children's stories. Three stories were displayed to children each for four times over 2 weeks, Keywords animated eBook, multimedia theory, Mandarin learning, storytelling, total the animated features (motion pictures, hotspot, and sound) and the four official languages (English, Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil) (Singapore Bilingual Children