chinese-english

Mia and Uncle Eddie are going to the Big Wok for dim sum. Starting with one panda and ending with ten paper lanterns, Mia counts the icons of Chinese culture, past and present, she sees on their journey. She befriends a cat along the way and makes sure to get a treat to share with her new friend.

Throughout the year, a young boy and his family go out into the bamboo forest to collect bamboo to use in multiple ways. In the spring, they collect the bamboo shoots to eat later in the year and to feed their animals. In the summer, they cut down the stalks to make a chute to deliver fresh water and create fishing poles and rakes. In the autumn, his grandfather uses the bamboo sticks to make baskets, kites, and flutes. In the winter, the family eats pork cooked with dried bamboo shoots, and the boy and his brother receive bamboo pencil holders carved by their grandfather.

Presents the classic book by Dr. Seuss that pairs rhyming words in simple sentences to help emerging readers.

After visiting a museum holding portions of the Terracotta Army, Ming is visited at night by a Terracotta Army General and is taken to the palace of the first Chinese emperor on a magical adventure.

While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.

Middle schooler Greg Heffley tells his diary how excited he is to start school this year because his summer vacation was so horrible. In fact, one incident was so terrible that if his older brother Rodrick ever tells anyone, Greg would be the laughing stock of the school. Despite catering to Rodrick's every demand, the embarrassing secret is revealed with surprising consequences.

As Grasshopper sets out to follow a road, he meets some unusual characters.