New feature added! Now you can scan the QR code on each page to listen to the sound recordings. www.BigChineseWorkbook.com Designed for kids living in English speaking countries and/or regions, Chinese heritage or non-Chinese heritage. Learn the 21 initials, 2 special initials, 6 simple finals, 9 compound finals, and 9 nasal finals in Pinyin. -Understand, use and write 28 commonly used phonetic components in phono-semantic compound characters, which occupy over 80% of all Chinese characters. -Understand, write, and use 15 pairs of antonyms. - Read short passages in Chinese and answer questions. -Read up to 200 new characters and write about 120. Total vocabulary from Level K to Level 4 Reading: 1200+ Writing: 400+ Recommended by teachers and linguists to be used for self-study or in supplement to any Chinese school curriculum. No textbook is required for using this workbook. For kids who do not speak Chinese at home and do not go to a Chinese school (immersion or weekend), a tutor is recommended for using this book. This book uses simplified characters.

www.bigchineseworkbook.com Big Chinese Workbook for Little Hands is the No.1 book series recommended by teachers and linguists in the United States for kids to learn Chinese character writing. Big Chinese Coloring Book for Little Hands is a sister series that is designed for kids who start to learn the Chinese language at a very young age in an English-speaking country/region. Completion of Big Chinese Coloring Book at the Pre-school level (for kids 3+) is a pre-requisite for using the pre-kindergarten book (for kids 4+). This book will teach your little ones to read 50 basic Chinese characters in addition to the 36 most basic characters that were taught in the pre-school level. Most of these characters selected are pictographs or ideographs which derive from pictures. An ancient script is also used as an aide to help kids associate the meaning with each character. Kids will learn through activities that they are familiar with, such as coloring, drawing, cutting and matching, etc. Each page also comes with a sound recording that kids can listen to by scanning the QR code with a phone or a tablet. After completion of this book, your child should be ready to move on to the next level (Kindergarten) , will read more words and start tracing and writing Chinese characters! This book series uses simplified characters.

Gerald tells of the very unusual animals he would add to the zoo, if he were in charge.

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

"Offers a variety of exercises that will help your child practice scissor skills and other readiness basics, such as story order, counting, matching, and beginning sounds. The interesting activities with clear directions will provide hours of educational fun for your child"--Page 4 of cover

A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!​ A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time​! This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Grace Lin, author of the beloved Year of the Dog and Year of the Rat returns with a wondrous story of adventure, faith, and friendship. A fantasy crossed with Chinese folklore, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a timeless story reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Her beautiful illustrations, printed in full-color, accompany the text throughout. Once again, she has created a charming, engaging book for young readers.

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections

Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker of the 'Little Red Book'. It is one of the most printed books in history, and will be of considerable value to those with an interest in Mao Tse-Tung and in the history of the Communist Party of China. The chapters of this book include: 'The Communist Party', 'Classes and Class Struggle', 'Socialism and Communism', 'The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People', 'War and Peace', 'Imperialism and All Reactionaries ad Paper Tigers', 'Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of Mao Tse-Tung.