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Young Scholars

Picture-book stories and read-alouds for preschool and early elementary readers.

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Picture Book · Bilingual · Ages 4–6 The Frog God A bilingual children's-book adaptation of Pu Songling's Qīng Wā Shén — twenty-eight spreads, with teacher and parent notes folded in at the back.
N° 02
Classroom Resource · Dual-Immersion Tang Poetry for Young Scholars Nine poems from the Tang Dynasty, still recited by Chinese children a thousand years on. Characters, pinyin, literal translation, and English rendering — with a note on the moment that made each one.
N° 03
Circle Time · Ages 4+ The Day of Twelve Animals Twelve animals, twelve days. Rhyming circle-time verses with embedded Chinese vocabulary and movement cues for the grown-up leading the room.
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Story Collection · Dual-Immersion Nine Chinese Idioms for Young Scholars Nine chéngyǐ, nine fables. Each four-character saying gets the story behind it, with vocabulary and a short moral.
N° 05
Mythology · Read-Aloud Sign-Readers Nüwa, Fuxi, Shennong, Cangjie — four ancient beings who could read what the world was telling them, and gave that reading a shape the rest of us could see.
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Circle Time Book · Bilingual The Tree with the Tiny Door An adaptation of A Southern Branch Dream — a story from Tang China, retold for circle time or bedtime. Available in English, simplified and traditional Chinese, and pinyin.
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Circle Time Book · Ages 3–7 The Creatures of Limuw Six small stories from an island in the sea, for children ages 3–7, with notes for the teacher.