AAPI Heritage Month Chinese Learning

May marks the celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. It’s a time when we recognize the rich cultures and significant contributions of the AAPI community. As part of this celebration, our spotlight is on the Chinese language and culture as well as multicultural learning. If you’re a parent or educator looking for “AAPI Heritage Month Chinese Learning Resources,” you’ve landed on the right page.

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Here we’re featuring amazing authors and content creators who are making learning the Chinese language and culture both fun and accessible for kids. In addition, we’ve also included multicultural learning sites for you to explore further with your children. Without further ado, let’s start!

Learning Songs with Colors: The Fishing Song

This bilingual singable book by Isabelle Engler, a NICU and pediatric music therapist, is a great tool for “Chinese language learning for kids.” Isabelle uses music to promote social-emotional learning and multilingual development.

Imagine World:

This is a bilingual Chinese and English book to help kids learn simple phrases with songs. Make sure you check out its supplementary resource on MyPeachTot.

Spark Collection:

Makes bilingual lift-the-flap books that make learning language fun and meaningful. The books are available in Mandarin-English, Korean-English, and Hindi-English, are dry-erase writeable, and come with free audiobooks. Reading, writing, and listening all-in-one! Spark Collection’s mission is to inspire families to learn language and culture in a fun and meaningful way.

Boba Bear Bilingual:

This mom-founded bilingual board book series features Boba Bear, a bicultural and bilingual character who loves boba. These books and toys make bilingual education a fun and inclusive learning experience.

Fortune Cookie Mom’s

13-Pack Bundle: This theme-based Chinese printable is suitable for kids aged 3 and above. It’s a great resource for families looking to introduce Chinese at home, with multiple language versions to learn Cantonese and Mandarin.

Little Bun: A Bilingual Storybook About Feelings

Connecting our children with their heritage language and culture is a journey and adventure filled with joy and emotional labor. Little Bun wants to show young readers what he does and what he says when big feelings come. In two languages, English and Chinese with Pinyin support. This picture book idea originated from a beloved Chinese dish, steamed buns in Taiwan. This book is authored by a mother-daughter duo, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett and Emily.

In addition to the above resources, we also have a comprehensive list of resource websites by more publishers, authors, and educational content creators. Each one contributes to our understanding and appreciation of Chinese language, culture, and/or multicultural learning. Check them out here:

Bitty Bao: Offers culturally rich and engaging Bilingual English and Chinese Board Books and merchandising for kids.
Indigrow Kids: Provides outstanding multicultural learning experiences with books, toys, and digital products for families with young children.
The Bund Books: Publishes bilingual books for the youngest Chinese learners with digital resources to make learning accessible.
Fortune Cookie Mom: Creates resources by themes to aid Chinese language learning for kids. Make sure you check out her free and premium lessons.
Music & Tales: Empowers families and children through music. Isabelle, the founder is a Board Certified Music Therapist. Her book is multilingual.
Miss Panda Chinese: Provides high-quality Chinese language, culture, and raising world citizen resources for parents and educators.
Margaret Greanias: The author of Amah Faraway, a children’s book author who writes picture books with heart and humor.
Crystal Z. Lee: The author of Kai the Dancing Butterfly, Crystal is a Taiwanese American bilingual writer.
Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett: The author of Little Bun and First Mandarin Sounds keeps reading active and playful for kids.
Lychee Press: Is on a mission to normalize Asians in everyday stories. Mina Learns Chinese series brings the Chinese language into kids’ everyday life.
Our Little Mando: The Creator of One Little Pig, A Little Book of Taiwanese Eats, and Globetrots: Taiwan! They make Chinese accessible to all families.
Habbi Habbi: Publishes beautifully designed, mindful, and immersive multilingual books with reading wands for kids.
My Peach Tot: The author and creator of Imagined World, an interactive learning picture book with 16 Chinese nursery rhymes.
Eugenia Chu: Author Eugenia Chu brings Chinese culture and festivities to kids like an adventurer.
Boba Bear Bilingual: Creates Boba Bear bilingual board books and toys to meet the needs of modern families.
Spark Collection: Is on a mission to inspire families to learn language and culture in a fun and meaningful way.
Green Cows: Provides Mandarin, Cantonese, and multilingual books for young learners.
Curious Little Bao: The author, and creator of the Curious Little Bao Bilingual Children’s Book series
Charlotte Art: Features Charlotte’s books including “Bobo Loves Dumplings” and “Night Market Rescue”.
Mooli Print: Offers delightful Chinese and multilingual books for young learners and parents.
Edna Ma: This is the author’s official website featuring her bilingual children’s books “Travel Learn and See” series and more.
Our Chinese English Journey Podcast: A podcast that shares valuable experiences and resources with parents who are raising children in Chinese and English.
Mama Baby Mandarin: Features tips, activities, and resources to learn Mandarin in an easy way.
By Yo Bei Qiu: Celebrates Asian culture and multicultural in children’s books and empowers younger readers.
Playful Chinese Podcast: A bilingual podcast that uses stories to engage Chinese language learning in a fun way.
Chris Huang: Author and illustrator of bilingual children’s books in Chinese, Zhuyin, and English.
Raising World Children: Shares diversity in stories with books and extensive multicultural resources.
Ed Kids Home: Offers a printable library for bilingual Chinese and English learning materials.
Gordon and Li Li: This book series connects kids with the first Mandarin words for everyday use.
Spot of Sunshine: Provides great bilingual parenting resources to make Chinese learning at home doable.
Bicultural Mama: Celebrates the best of both worlds with cultural insights and multicultural children’s books.
Bao Bao Learns Chinese: Publishes song books for young kids to learn Chinese with pinyin and English support.
Adore Neko Books: Creates easy-to-follow and fun Chinese learning workbooks for children.
Taiwanese American Organization: A non-profit organization powered by dedicated volunteers, striving to build connections and promote individuals who resonate with Taiwanese identity, heritage, or culture through the site’s highlights and resources.
Taiwan Ministry of Culture 台灣文化部: Here is a rich collection of picture books by Taiwan-native authors and beyond. Keep this handy for outstanding books for children. You will discover works from Lai Ma 賴馬, Chen Chih-Yuan 陳致元, Ji Mi 幾米, Wang Jia Chen 王家珍, Lin Shiao Bei 林小杯, etc…
National Libray Board Singapore 新加坡教育部: The site’s mother tongue service includes Chinese and it provides several resourceful booklists and you will be able to get to children’s book authors from Singapore.
Mini Oasis Libray in Malaysia (Chinese language focused): This library has a story before its opening. Its focus is on the Chinese language collection. Explore its children’s collection.
MulticulturalKidblogs: A dedicated community to fostering and assisting families, educators, and communities in nurturing future global citizens, through the creation of diverse educational and parenting content.
Daria Music: This is the leading resource of world music for children with music, songs, and learning about instruments.
KidWorldCitizen: A multicultural resource that shares activities that help young minds go global.
PragmaticMom: Here you can find resourceful articles on education and abundant book lists about Asian Americans. And more!
Read Your World – Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Has been raising awareness of children’s books that celebrate diversity for the past decade and sending multicultural children’s books into homes, classrooms, and libraries.

**Would you like to have your book, product, or website featured in our expanding collection of Chinese language and culture learning resources? Share it here!

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By Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett on / AAPI Heritage Resources, Blog

Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month: Top 30+ Chinese and Multicultural Learning Resources for Kids

Here we’re featuring amazing authors and content creators who are making learning the Chinese language and culture both fun and accessible for kids. In addition, we’ve also included multicultural learning sites for you to explore further with your children. Without further ado, let’s start!

Learning Songs with Colors: The Fishing Song

This bilingual singable book by Isabelle Engler, a NICU and pediatric music therapist, is a great tool for “Chinese language learning for kids.” Isabelle uses music to promote social-emotional learning and multilingual development.

Imagine World:

This is a bilingual Chinese and English book to help kids learn simple phrases with songs. Make sure you check out its supplementary resource on MyPeachTot.

Spark Collection:

Boba Bear Bilingual:

This mom-founded bilingual board book series features Boba Bear, a bicultural and bilingual character who loves boba. These books and toys make bilingual education a fun and inclusive learning experience.

Fortune Cookie Mom’s

13-Pack Bundle: This theme-based Chinese printable is suitable for kids aged 3 and above. It’s a great resource for families looking to introduce Chinese at home, with multiple language versions to learn Cantonese and Mandarin.

Little Bun: A Bilingual Storybook About Feelings

In addition to the above resources, we also have a comprehensive list of resource websites by more publishers, authors, and educational content creators. Each one contributes to our understanding and appreciation of Chinese language, culture, and/or multicultural learning. Check them out here:

Bitty Bao: Offers culturally rich and engaging Bilingual English and Chinese Board Books and merchandising for kids.

Indigrow Kids: Provides outstanding multicultural learning experiences with books, toys, and digital products for families with young children.

The Bund Books: Publishes bilingual books for the youngest Chinese learners with digital resources to make learning accessible.

Fortune Cookie Mom: Creates resources by themes to aid Chinese language learning for kids. Make sure you check out her free and premium lessons.

Music & Tales: Empowers families and children through music. Isabelle, the founder is a Board Certified Music Therapist. Her book is multilingual.

Miss Panda Chinese: Provides high-quality Chinese language, culture, and raising world citizen resources for parents and educators.

Margaret Greanias: The author of Amah Faraway, a children’s book author who writes picture books with heart and humor.

Crystal Z. Lee: The author of Kai the Dancing Butterfly, Crystal is a Taiwanese American bilingual writer.

Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett: The author of Little Bun and First Mandarin Sounds keeps reading active and playful for kids.

Lychee Press: Is on a mission to normalize Asians in everyday stories. Mina Learns Chinese series brings the Chinese language into kids’ everyday life.

Our Little Mando: The Creator of One Little Pig, A Little Book of Taiwanese Eats, and Globetrots: Taiwan! They make Chinese accessible to all families.

Habbi Habbi: Publishes beautifully designed, mindful, and immersive multilingual books with reading wands for kids.

My Peach Tot: The author and creator of Imagined World, an interactive learning picture book with 16 Chinese nursery rhymes.

Eugenia Chu: Author Eugenia Chu brings Chinese culture and festivities to kids like an adventurer.

Boba Bear Bilingual: Creates Boba Bear bilingual board books and toys to meet the needs of modern families.

Spark Collection: Is on a mission to inspire families to learn language and culture in a fun and meaningful way.

Green Cows: Provides Mandarin, Cantonese, and multilingual books for young learners.

Curious Little Bao: The author, and creator of the Curious Little Bao Bilingual Children’s Book series

Charlotte Art: Features Charlotte’s books including “Bobo Loves Dumplings” and “Night Market Rescue”.

Mooli Print: Offers delightful Chinese and multilingual books for young learners and parents.

Edna Ma: This is the author’s official website featuring her bilingual children’s books “Travel Learn and See” series and more.

Our Chinese English Journey Podcast: A podcast that shares valuable experiences and resources with parents who are raising children in Chinese and English.

Mama Baby Mandarin: Features tips, activities, and resources to learn Mandarin in an easy way.

By Yo Bei Qiu: Celebrates Asian culture and multicultural in children’s books and empowers younger readers.

Playful Chinese Podcast: A bilingual podcast that uses stories to engage Chinese language learning in a fun way.

Chris Huang: Author and illustrator of bilingual children’s books in Chinese, Zhuyin, and English.

Raising World Children: Shares diversity in stories with books and extensive multicultural resources.

Ed Kids Home: Offers a printable library for bilingual Chinese and English learning materials.

Gordon and Li Li: This book series connects kids with the first Mandarin words for everyday use.

Spot of Sunshine: Provides great bilingual parenting resources to make Chinese learning at home doable.

Bicultural Mama: Celebrates the best of both worlds with cultural insights and multicultural children’s books.

Bao Bao Learns Chinese: Publishes song books for young kids to learn Chinese with pinyin and English support.

Adore Neko Books: Creates easy-to-follow and fun Chinese learning workbooks for children.

Taiwanese American Organization: A non-profit organization powered by dedicated volunteers, striving to build connections and promote individuals who resonate with Taiwanese identity, heritage, or culture through the site’s highlights and resources.

National Libray Board Singapore 新加坡教育部: The site’s mother tongue service includes Chinese and it provides several resourceful booklists and you will be able to get to children’s book authors from Singapore.

Mini Oasis Libray in Malaysia (Chinese language focused): This library has a story before its opening. Its focus is on the Chinese language collection. Explore its children’s collection.

MulticulturalKidblogs: A dedicated community to fostering and assisting families, educators, and communities in nurturing future global citizens, through the creation of diverse educational and parenting content.

Daria Music: This is the leading resource of world music for children with music, songs, and learning about instruments.

KidWorldCitizen: A multicultural resource that shares activities that help young minds go global.

PragmaticMom: Here you can find resourceful articles on education and abundant book lists about Asian Americans. And more!

Read Your World – Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Has been raising awareness of children’s books that celebrate diversity for the past decade and sending multicultural children’s books into homes, classrooms, and libraries.

**Would you like to have your book, product, or website featured in our expanding collection of Chinese language and culture learning resources? Share it here!

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