The Hong Kong Starter Pack #2
The first Hong Kong Starter Pack post featured English or bilingual books, so I thought I'd do another for Chinese ♥️
Some of these are old favour...
Holiday Deadlines
✨ Happy December!
For many families, the holiday countdown begins, so we’d like to call out a few important dates.
Based on Canada Post's delivery...
Santa Letter Program... in Chinese!
Randomly decided to do a thing over the weekend after seeing a post by Pauline of Sweet Note Learning.
If your kiddo wants to write a Chinese lett...
Surprise Backorder & Miscellaneous Sale!
Um... SURPRISE?! 👻
tl;dr 👇
Hong Kong books are open for backorder (expected to ship this month).
A bunch of older stock is marked down to clear r...
A Little Pre-order Update
Now that it's October 1, and decidedly fall, it's probably high time to give a quick update on the pre-order.
You may have already kinda got the i...
Book Highlight: Where is My Next Home? 《何處是吾家》
This book just arrived and I’m so in love. It is such a beautiful book!
Written and illustrated by Janas Lau, this is a bittersweet story narrated...
It's Election Day!
It's election day! Please go out and vote.
I know we're "just" a children's bookstore and people sometimes prefer that we stay in our lane.
But I'...
Book Highlight: A BIG Mooncake for Little Star • 小星的大月餅
A Big Mooncake for Little Star • 小星的大月餅 is a title we have in both languages.
It was first written in English by award-winning author-illustrator ...
Parent Spotlight - Bobo
Bobo is a dad who decided to teach his son Chinese when his son was a little "older" and *after* his son was already speaking English fluently. Many folks consider this "late", and very "difficult", but that didn't stop Bobo! He used all kinds of creative tricks to finally raise a Chinese speaker and reader!
Storybooks in "Spoken" Cantonese
Cantonese is a unique beast of a language. We've heard from many families their frustration around the disconnect between the spoken and written s...
Bilingual Parenting Myth #2: Teaching Chinese is a Waste of Time
I hear this allllll the time.
In fact, I've internalized this so much myself, I didn't bother trying to speak Chinese to my eldest when he was bor...
The Hong Kong Starter Pack
❤️🇭🇰 The Hong Kong Starter Pack lol 🤪
It’s no secret that Hong Kong has a special place in my heart.
I lurrrve stocking books about Hong Kong, fro...
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