It’s time for longer days and brighter skies and hopefully those Spring showers don’t catch you while you’re out! Spring time can be a really exciting for little ones; aside from egg hunts and eating chocolate, there’re a lots of things to do and see when you’re out in the Spring! Gardening, watching flowers bloom, seeing little baby animals… There are simply too many opportunities to explore the world outside, as well as the one in your books!

There’s a whole plethora of delightfully bright and beautiful books all about the Lunar New Year and how it’s celebrated. To get you started, here’s a quick look at some! You can click on the links for each title to see where you might be able to purchase them and we’re adding links to other bloggers’ booklists (see the end!) and recommendations so you have plenty to choose from!

My Bilingual Book of Nursery Rhymes is the fruit of a bilingual parent’s labour. It’s well thought out and well executed. It delivers on so many points, with Pinyin, Simplified Chinese and English text in parallel, adorable artwork, free audio guides, large font, and colour-coded text. Plus, it all comes in a hardy form factor!

This book delivers the joy of poetry-inspired rhythm and repetition by Bill Martin Jr. with the classic Eric Carle visual experience. It’s an enjoyable read for both parents and children and works very well in classrooms, too. Learning the colours and animals in Chinese is fun and it’s nice to have the option to choose between hardback and board book, big and small, bilingual and monolingual!

Technology has advanced so much in the children’s book industry - I feel a bit like a caveman! Only a couple of weeks in, I was surprised to hear my daughter read to herself!

So where did it all begin? … I suppose you can call it envy. Every night, she’d snuggle up next to my husband and enjoy lovely long bedtime readings! All in English with my husband’s engaging, enthusiastic and animated reading!