Another series of fantastic Chinese board books for babies and toddlers!
"Counting in Chinese", "Starting in Chinese Part 1" and "Starting in Chinese Part 2"
I met the author when I was visiting a Chinese school in London 3 years ago, she was one of the parent at the school and very enthusiastic about children learning Chinese. I remembered we discussed about the shortage of good quality Chinese books for young children learning Mandarin in this country.
She said has been thinking of writing books for babies and toddlers. To be honest, I did not take it seriously until a year later, she called and told me she is working on her first board book "Counting in Chinese". Since then, she has also written another 2 books "Starting in Chinese Part 1" and "Starting in Chinese Part 2" focus on Chinese radicals.
All books are designed with careful thought based on her experiences of herself and her children who learn Mandarin in foreign country. Not only the books are in excellent quality (like those DK baby board book, if you get what I mean), the contents are great too:
(1) It shows you the stoke order of each character on a separate page for little finger tracing.
(2) Evolution of Chinese characters and their structure pattern on a separate page
(3) Eye-catching real life pictures on every page - babies and toddlers will easily understand the meaning by looking at the pictures
(4) Vocaburary tablewith English translation
(5) There is pinyin, English translation, sentence example for every word.
(6) Lastly, and the most important criteria, the Chinese word is BIG enough. Babies and toddlers able to "spot" the Chinese word easily. To me, my baby pays more attention to BIGGER Chinese characters. :)
The picture says it all, have a look at a below picture for the books:
"Counting in Chinese", "Starting in Chinese Part 1" and "Starting in Chinese Part 2" £4.99 each book Or Buy all 3 for £13.47
