Uncover these Chinese Learning Resources Created by Moms. Explore my favorite selection of books and products, passionately created by mothers to foster a love of the Chinese language. Perfect for baby showers or birthdays, these resources make delightful gifts for young Chinese learners. 大家加油!
Mama-made Chinese Learning Products and Resources
A Little Chinese
Location: United States
Language: English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and Pinyin
Category: Books, Posters
Educational posters, books, and digital content for your little ones! Available in Traditional or Simplified characters. Perfect for your home and classrooms.
Baby Snack Time
Location: United States
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, and Pinyin
Category: Books, toys, gifts
Judy Li is a Taiwanese American author who aims to help young readers see themselves mirrored in books that they read and be exposed to their heritage language and culture in a fun and engaging way. Baby Snack Time is a counting book that highlights nostalgic snacks that many Asian families grew up enjoying. In in Baby Tea Time, Judy invites young readers to explore the amazing tea and food traditions from various regions in Asia. Both books feature the most adorable characters and illustrations.
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Bao Bao Learns Chinese
Location: United States, New York
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Audio: Mandarin
Category: Books
One of the best ways to learn Mandarin is through songs. Bao Bao Learns Chinese offers beautiful nursery rhymes and children’s songs, from both the East and the West. Created and sung by a mom in Brooklyn, NY, each song is repeated twice at the touch of a button and is written in Mandarin, English, and Pinyin. The perfect way for your little one to learn Mandarin in a fun and engaging way.
Beach Day Press
Location: United States
Language: English, Tradition Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Introducing bilingual English-Mandarin board books expertly written by a speech-language pathologist and designed to captivate early learners aged 0-5. The stories highlight essential concepts like bedtime rituals, bath-time adventures, familiar household items, and beloved family members in simple, repetitive phrases and sentences, making it easy for young children to follow along and learn meaningful phrases relating to their day-to-day lives.
These books also serve as a resource to help busy parents make language learning easy, natural, and fun. Each book includes a reading guide filled with simple language-building tips for parents to incorporate during book reading and other daily routines without having to set aside extra time to work on language learning.
Bitty Bao
Location: United States, Southern California
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, Zhuyin, and Pinyin; Simplified with Pinyin; Cantonese with Jyutping
Category: Books and Merchandise
Bitty Bao’s mouth-watering bilingual bitty books for bitty babes are the perfect board books for your little library!
Bilingual Kiddos
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Language: English, Simplified with Pinyin
Category: Books and Merchandise
In this mama’s latest publication, young readers can delve into the world of Chinese festivals through a bilingual (Simplified Chinese and English) format. Vibrant and captivating illustrations are infused with numerous details and characters, providing endless opportunities for discovery. The book showcases multicultural families embracing both Chinese and Western holidays while introducing a total of 48 Chinese phrases to the reader. This is the perfect tool to cultivate cultural awareness and curiosity in children.
My Bilingual Book of Festivals features the following special occasions:
- New Year’s Day 元旦 (Yuán dàn)
- Lunar New Year 农历新年 (Nóng lì xīn nián)
- Easter 复活节 (Fù huó jié)
- Tomb Sweeping Festival 清明节 (Qīng míng jié)
- Dragonboat Festival 端午节 (Duān wǔ jié)
- Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 (Zhōng qiū jié)
- Halloween 万圣节 (Wàn shèng jié)
- Christmas 圣诞节 (Shèng dàn jié)
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Boba Bear
Location: New Jersey, USA
Language: English, Simplified with Pinyin
Category: Books and Merchandise
Ran Wei Baker (位然) is a Chinese American mom turned children’s book author based in Maplewood, NJ. The Boba Bear Bilingual series is Ran’s first self-published children’s board book. She saw a need for more bilingual books in the children’s books market, especially for modern families like hers with mixed-heritage and multilingual children.
Boba Bear is Ran’s love letter to her daughter, Lily. She wanted to create relatable and engaging learning books that make reading a fun experience for both parents and children, in hopes that multicultural kids like Lily can find joy and take pride in seeing books on the shelves that celebrate their culture and language.
Bopomofo Zhuyin Poster
Location: Taiwan, Taipei
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, Zhuyin
Category: Books, posters
This colorfully illustrated “bopomofo” alphabet poster is the bopomofo poster today’s parents wish had existed when they were kids themselves. It’s designed to help new Chinese learners remember their bopomofo while learning some simple Chinese vocabulary.
Curio Book Club
Location: United States
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese
Category: Books
Curio provides a selection of timeless classics and contemporary award-winning picture books, sourced and curated from indie publishers in Taiwan as well as popular titles from around the world in children’s literature. In addition, they offer hard-to-find creative popup interactive books designed to inspire lifelong bilingual learning. Each shipment, which is sent out every 3 months, includes a unique collection of 3-4 picture books in Traditional or Simplified Chinese, accompanied by reading guides and audio read-alongs.
Check out what came in our first Curio box!
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Curious Little Bao 好奇的小宝
Location: United States
Language: Simplified or Traditional Chinese, Pinyin, and English
Category: Books
Curious Little Bao’s 6″ x 6″ board books contain 24 pages of illustrations combined with simple sentences and repetitive characters to help your little one remember the theme and messages. Learn about Chinese holidays with the new water painting book!
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Dot Line Curve
Location: Switzerland (global shipping available)
Language: English, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
Category: Books, Flashcards, Posters
Dot Line Curve designs beautiful educational materials to encourage a visual and hands-on approach to Chinese learning.
Dou Dou Books
Location: Switzerland (global shipping available)
Language: English, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong)
Category: Books, Flashcards, Posters
Developed by a teacher with over 20 years of experience, Dou Dou Books is a beginner-level Chinese reading series for children ages 3-7. Each book is beautifully illustrated and teaches simple phrases through effective repetition.
Duck Duck Books
Location: United States, Washington
Language: English, Traditional Chinese/Pinyin, Simplified Chinese/Pinyin, Cantonese/Jyutping, Spanish
Category: Books
Duck Duck Books publishes multilingual children’s board books that foster social and emotional early learning. Read my review
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EDkidshome
Location: Toronto, Canada
Language: English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Korean
Category: Printables
EDkidshome offers minimalistic yet aesthetic educational printables in multiple languages. Free printables are also available at Edkidshome.com.
Fish Tales and Rhymes
Location: Texas, United States
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Board Books
Fish Tales and Rhymes is a line of bilingual musical board books by Angelina Wong-Jardin! Each book features colorful illustrations and interactive buttons that play classic and new Chinese songs and rhymes. The catchy tunes and playful lyrics are sure to capture your child’s attention and make learning Chinese a fun and enjoyable experience. These books are the perfect tool for parents who want to introduce their children to Chinese language and culture through music.
Order from the fishtalesandrhymes.com
Habbi Habbi
Location: United States, SF Bay Area
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, Mandarin
Audio: English and Mandarin (Mainland)
Category: Books and reading wand/reading pen
Habbi Habbi books cover a range of topics that teach kindness, empowerment, diversity, and life skills. The wand reads in Chinese and English. These bilingual children’s books are written in Simplified Chinese with Pinyin and English. Read my review
Indigrow
Location: India
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books and activities
With more than 26 mini stories, The A to Z of Chinese Culture Play Book helps your little ones explore and celebrate Chinese Culture. Take a magical journey with each letter as you explore all the delightful foods, languages, people, clothes, festivals and so much more.
Language Monkey
Location: New Zealand
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Audio: English, Mandarin, and Cantonese (all in one)
Category: Books, recordable audio stickers, and reading pen
Learn Chinese without screen time, CDs, Computers, or any ability to read! The Language Monkey reading pen and books are a fun way to develop your child’s Chinese vocabulary and encourage independent learning.
You can also add audio to your books at home with Language Monkey recordable audio stickers!
Lele and Monkey
Location: United States, Southern California
Language: English, Traditional Chinese and Pinyin; Cantonese with Jyutping, Simplified with Pinyin (coming soon)
Category: Books
Lele Goes Out to Play is a book about a boy’s adventures in Hong Kong with his stuffed monkey! The playful story helps young children develop everyday social language. You can also listen to the Lele and Monkey podcast for more Chinese learning!
Little Dot Chinese
Location: United States, SF Bay Area
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, Zhuyin
Category: Learning Boxes/Kits
Little Dot Chinese offers fun, engaging, and Montessori-inspired Chinese learning journeys for young kids 3 and up. Theme-based learning fueled by picture books, hands-on activities, and media support.
Lil’ Dumpling Press
Location: United States, Texas
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Learn simple Chinese characters and vocabulary through recipes, real photos, and high-contrast graphics.
Little Picnic Press
Location: United States, SF Bay Area
Language: English, Traditional Chinese
Category: Books
Books for modern families that celebrate food, language, and cultural diversity.
MamaJia
Languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Mandarin Pinyin, Cantonese Jyutping
MamaJia designs handcrafted toddler-friendly bilingual busy books, activities, and learning tools to help children embrace both languages. Where possible, these products incorporate carefully selected pictures to familiarize little ones with Chinese culture and traditions.
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Mandarin Prodigies
Location: Australia
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books, Flashcards
This set of High-quality flashcards with matching label cards. will teach your child the Chinese characters for 30 different animals. Simplified Chinese with Pinyin
Learn Chinese characters and simple sentences with Mandarin Prodigies’ beautifully illustrated Montessori-inspired learning materials.
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Maomi Stars
Location: Hong Kong
Language: English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Learning APP, Books
Maomi Stars colorful kitties teach Chinese through books and a gamified app. Maomi stories are written in Traditional Chinese and Pinyin. The app is available in Traditional and Simplified.
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Metta Play
Location: Australia
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Flashcards, games
Metta Play has designed these ingenious cards for multiple purposes, including learning, playtime, and physical activity. They can serve as conventional flashcards to teach Chinese and English vocabulary and expressions. Alternatively, they can function as a memory game to enhance a child’s cognitive abilities. Furthermore, they can spark inspiration for exercise by introducing various enjoyable yoga poses suitable for children.
Mina Learns Chinese
Location: United States, SF Bay Area
Language: English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Follow along on Mina’s adventures in these Bilingual stories. These books are written in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Pinyin, and English
Miss Panda Chinese
Location: United States, Washington DC
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, and Pinyin; Simplified Chinese with Pinyin
Category: Books
Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, known as “Miss Panda,” is an experienced teacher and mother who has created two enjoyable and captivating Chinese learning books. “Little Bun: A Bilingual Storybook About Feelings” introduces twelve crucial emotions in both English and Chinese, while “FIRST MANDARIN SOUNDS: An Awesome Bilingual Word Book” highlights 37 fundamental Mandarin sounds, accompanied by vibrant illustrations and engaging look-and-find pages featuring high-frequency Chinese words.
Mooliprint
Location: United Kingdom
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Mooliprint is a series of Chinese phrasebooks for parents that are available in Cantonese or Mandarin.
Music & Tales
Location: United States
Language: English, Traditional Chinese with Pinyin
Category: Books
Isabelle Engler is the author of the Learning Songs with Colors singable book series, NICU and pediatric music therapist, and founder of Music & Tales.
Engler shares, “I love creating mindfully-designed and research-based resources that enable caregivers and teachers to promote social-emotional and language learning. Outside of my book, I get to use music to help NICU babies and parents towards healing and well-being and regularly perform classical chamber concerts for families outside of medical settings. My bilingual singable book Learning Songs with Colors: The Fishing Song was published in July 2022.”
More books are coming in 2023 and 2024. Follow @musicandtales to stay tuned and visit musicandtales.org for free bilingual scores and more info.
MyPeachTot
Location: United States
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Learn Chinese with MyPeachTot, an interactive book series with phonics games, Mandarin pronunciation, and Chinese Nursery Rhymes. Includes downloadable MP3 songs, interactive ebook, and worksheets.
Our Little Mando
Location: United States, New York
Language: English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
One Little Pig is a bilingual counting book that introduces little ones to Chinese through playful rhymes in Mandarin!
SeedLingo
Location: United States
Language: Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Pinyin, English
Category: Flash Cards, Posters, Merchandise
Teacher mama April Wu is a Mandarin Dual Language Immersion teacher raising a trilingual toddler. Her side hustle, Seedlingo, aims to support families in raising bilingual children. She created A Little Bilingual’s World Chinese-English bilingual flash cards with Montessori-inspired activities and a multi-level teaching guide to provide caregivers with non-traditional approaches to teaching and fun, engaging activities for learners!
Shih-Ting Huang’s Flashcards
Location: United States, Texas
Language: Traditional Chinese
Category: Flashcards, music instruction, printables
These are high-quality flashcards to teach Traditional Chinese characters. The reverse side has a Chinese phrase to support the character on the front. (No Zhuyin)
Shiny Lantern
Location: United States, Southern California
Language: English, Simplified Chinese
Category: Books
Learn about six major Chinese holidays through this delightful book filled with whimsical illustrations. This bilingual children’s book is written in Simplified Chinese and English.
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Spark Collection
Location: United States
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Spark Collection’s debut product is a bilingual lift-the-flap storybook that is thoughtfully designed to teach language from early exposure to reading and writing. Features include character lift-the-flaps, dry-erase writeable interior, and a free audiobook. Their books are also available in Hindi and Korean.
Sunbridge Books
Location: United States
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Learn Chinese with Bobo as he celebrates Chinese culture through delicious foods and holidays.
The Bund Books
Location: United States, New York
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
The Bund’s debut book is 小番茄, about a young tomato that’s desperate to turn red. This cute rhyming story teaches self-love. There are two more books on the way this year!
Travel, Learn, and See Bilingual Books
Location: United States, Southern California
Language: English, Simplified Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Books
Read about Dean and Ethan’s Mandarin immersion summer camp and adventure to the Great Wall of China. Learn about Chinese culture and the history of the Great Wall. This is a cute and educational book that every classroom and home library needs! Read my review
Yay Baobei Dumpling Feelings Poster
Location: United States, Oakland California
Language: English, Traditional Chinese, Pinyin
Category: Poster
Created by a Taiwanese mama, these dumplings explore emotions in Mandarin Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Perfect for your nursery, kid’s room, or classroom, this poster is more than decoration – it’s a meaningful addition to your child’s learning environment.
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