Building A Chinese Library For The Kids:
Background for Building a Library
- So You Want to Build a Chinese Children’s Library (updated Jul 2021)
- Types of Chinese Children’s Books by Age (updated Jul 2021)
- Chinese Reading Levels
- How to pick Chinese Children’s books for your library?
- Survey of Some Famous Taiwanese Publishers and Authors
Building Your Book Collection
- Where to Buy Books in Taiwan (updated Jul 2021)
- Where to Buy Books Online in the US (updated Jul 2021)
- Chinese Hyread eBooks Libraries in Taiwan 台灣 Hyread 線上圖書館 (updated Jul 2021)
- Chinese eBook Library from 遠流
- Step by Step on Accessing Taipei Library eBooks for Free
- Survey of Local Libraries’ Chinese Collection
Building your Audio/Visual Collection
Reviews
Curriculum
- Greenfield Let’s Play with Writing Curriculum 青田來玩寫作的遊戲 (Updated Sept 2021)
- Greenfield High Efficiency Character Recognition 青田綜合高效識字
- Greenfield Rainbow Reading Series 青田彩虹閱讀系列
- Zhuyin Big Pocket: 康軒 ㄅㄆㄇ大口袋 (updated Sept 2021)
Board Games
Teens (12+)
Dramas and Videos
* = favorites
- 棋魂 Hikaru No Go* (7+)
- 御賜小仵作 The Imperial Coroner* (12+)
- 一閃一閃亮星星 The Moment of Meeting Again (12+)
- 慶餘年 Joy of Life S1* (13+)
- 你是我的城池營壘 You’re My Hero (15+)
- 陳情令 Untamed* (15+)
- 以家人之名 Go Ahead* (15+)
- Crush 原來我很愛你 (15+)
- 司藤 Rattan (15+)
- 理智派生活 The Rational Life (16+)
- 傳聞中的陳芊芊 The Romance of Tiger and Rose (18+)
- 月光變奏曲 Moonlight (18+)
- 變成你的那一天 The Day of Becoming You (18+)
Old Posts to be Updated
- Chinese Board Books 翻翻書
- Chinese Picture Books (0-6)
- Chinese Books for Beginning Readers 橋樑書 (K-1st)
- Chinese Books for Lower Elementary Kids 中低級橋樑書, Part 1 (1st-3rd)
- Chinese Books for Lower Elementary Kids 中低級橋樑書, Part 2 (1st-3rd)
- Books for Upper Elementary (4th-6th)
- Magazines, Newspapers, etc
- Audio/Video Collection
- How to Pack Books from Taiwan for Luggage and Shipping
- Organizing Chinese Library Examples
Other Book-Related Posts:
- Gauging Reading Speed and Choosing the Right Level Chinese Books
- Adding Zhuyin to Ebooks
- Using Kindle Paperwhite to Read Traditional Chinese Books
- LXM Multi-Index Instant-Lookup Traditional-Character Chinese-English Dictionary for Kindle – Traditional Chinese to English dictionary
- Worldnet 3 Easy Dictionary – English to Traditional Chinese Dictionary
Reviews:
The grade levels on these books are based on my research of when Taiwanese kids are reading these books, from blog posts, and schools’ recommended reading lists.
Primary (3-6yrs old)
- 小雞過耶誕節 Little Chicks’ Christmas (Sagebooks Set 1)
- 我的朋友 My Friend (Sagebooks Set 1/2)
- 火車快飛 Freight Trains (Sagebooks Set 3)
Beginning Readers
- 小熊 Little Bear (1st)
- Chinese books for our beginning reader (K-1st)
- 我愛瑪婷 I Love Martine (K-1st)
- Read aloud: Wei Jun Goes to School 朗讀：君偉上小學 (1st-2nd)
Elementary (1st-6th grade)
- 閱讀123 Reading 123 (1st-3rd)
- 巧克力冒險工廠 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2nd-3rd)
- The Ink Drinker 吸墨鬼來了 (3rd-4th)
- Magic Treehouse 神奇樹屋 (3rd-4th)
- Mapping of Chinese and English Magic Tree House Books 神奇樹屋中英書名對照
- 跨世紀小說 Cross Century Set (3rd-JH)
- 樂讀 456 Happy Reading 456 (3rd-4th, some 5th)
- Wizard of Oz 綠野仙蹤 (4th)
- 哈利波特 Harry Potter (5th+)
Audio
- 奇先生妙小姐 Mr. Men and Little Miss (preschool+)
- 我愛瑪婷 I Love Martine (4+)
- 寫給兒童的世界歷史 The Children Can Read World History (3rd and up)
- 說給兒童聽的中國故事 Learning Chinese history through Children-Can-Listen Chinese History
- Improving our Chinese through audio resources – Elementary
Video
Textbooks/Magazines:
- Kang Xuan Mandarin Self-Study Books 康軒學習自修
- Magazine: 小牛頓 NewtonKids (elementary)
- Magazine: 康軒學習雜誌 top945
- Greenfield Books: what’s after Sagebooks
Parenting/Teacher