Here is a Happy Chinese Lunar New Year greetings video in Mandarin Chinese from NBA Star, Jeremy Lin! The NBA will be celebrating Chinese New Year with the “Surprise Door” television commercial featuring the Golden State Warrioir’s Stephen Curry, the Houston Rockets’ James Harden, the Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade, and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Jeremy Lin paying a surprise visit to a Chinese family. This TV spot will be on air in China and in the
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Author Interview Global education and bilingual parenting conversation with Becky Morales, creator of Kid World Citizen and author of The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners! I am thrilled to share Becky’s resourceful book and her global education blog, Kid World Citizen with you. Find out how to raise a young world citizen at home plan a global themed class event, and school presentation for your child Learn where to locate age appropriate global education learning tools
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January 27 is the Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Mia from PragmaticMom and Valarie from JumpIntoABook are on a mission to not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, but to get more of these types of books into classrooms and libraries. Another goal of this exciting event is create a compilation of books and favorite reads that will provide not only a new reading list for the winter, but also a way to expose
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Join the bilingual parenting conversation with Toni Wang – the creative Mom, Vocalist and Executive Producer behind A Little Mandarin – Chinese Children’s Classics music album. I am excited to share with you Toni’s joyful music album that you and your little one are going to enjoy! From China to the U.S. Toni experienced her own bilingual journey when she was a little girl. Now, she is raising her children in Mandarin Chinese, French, and English. Find
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Are you raising bilingual kids? Do you want to know how to create a positive learning environment so your family will enjoy this bilingual adventure? I am delighted to have Rita Rosenback come to the show. Rita Rosenback is the author of Bringing Up a Bilingual Child and the founder of Multilingual Parenting website. Rita is a multilingual mother who has successfully raised two multilingual children. She is a Family Language Coach and she shares her advice
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This is our first time in South America celebrating Day of the Dead. My daughter came home one day and told me that people don’t celebrate Halloween here but they celebrate Dia de los Muertos here in Ecuador. What is the difference between Halloween and Day of the Dead? What are the craft projects we can do? What are the books we can read on this special occasion? What do people eat during this celebration? When
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World Culture for Kids author interview features Mingmei Yip, author and illustrator of Grandma Panda’s China Storybook. I am excited to share Mingmei’s new children’s book with you. Find out where Grandma Panda lives and how she introduces Chinese culture and traditions to children with this interview. Meet the author and illustrator, Mingmei Yip Mingmei grew up in Hong Kong, studied in Paris and now lives in New York. Mingmei is a talented Chinese novelist. She
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Let’s learn a dance and rap in Mandarin Chinese! What a fun way to start your day with all the movements and direction words and phrases in Chinese! Watch the video and let’s do the Sid Shuffle with the adorable Ice Age character. Sid will teach us the moves to the coolest dance craze sweeping the globe. Watch people from 15 countries do the dance! Miss Panda is ready! How about you? First, we will learn the
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No matter where you are you can join Read Around The World Summer Series on Multicultural Kids Blogs. Here is Miss Panda’s recommendation. What do you do when you have hiccups? Read Mei Ling’s Hiccups by David Mills and find out what Mei Ling did. Discover all the great books in this series on Read Around the World Summer Reading Pinterest Board. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Keillor
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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. Thank you for your support! 10 Great Children’s Books in Chinese! You might have read many of these books to your child already. Now, let’s read it or listen to it in Chinese. Children love stories. Reading a fantastic way to engage children in target language learning. “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” ~ Emilie Buchwald I still remember the days when my son was only a few
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