A bilingual folktale in which a young girl, Mulan Hua, disguises herself as a man and leads the army of China to victory against the enemy. Presented in simplified Chinese and English.
Squirrel round and round : a bilingual book of seasons
Yang, Belle
2015
Squirrel is busy all year long, from one season into the next and back again. Birds feed their babies in spring, fireflies wink on a summer night, yellow leaves flutter in fall, and squirrel makes fresh tracks in winter's snow. Look for an explanation of tonal marks at the end of the story, along with a pinyin translation of the Chinese characters.
Gordon, a boy living in Brooklyn, New York, and his cousin Li Li, from Beijing, China, teach each other to count in their own languages, covering the numbers from one to twenty, and then by tens to one hundred.
Presents sixth-century philosopher Sun Tzu's thoughts on war, in which he discusses the laying of plans, the actual waging of war, and the value of negotiation.
Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night." Presented in English and Chinese.