Book

I should have made myself clear and said yesterday: It is not easy to find suitable Chinese books for our children to read.

In fact, it is no news. It has nothing to do with language and I am sure all parents in our city have the same experience. There are several series of excellent English books for children - The Oxford Reading Tree, Step into Reading of Random House, Dr. Seuss... to name just a few frequently read by Euterpe. All have eye-catching pictures, attractive stories, and text from simple to complex. Any junior reader would find these books interesting. They form a habit of reading and learn bit by bit.

And, what do we have for our own language?

Very limited. True, there are comics (with very few words) and short stores (with pages of loaded text), but nothing (in terms of complexity) in between. For a child of 4 to 10 years of age, who know one to two hundreds of Chinese words, there is little easy and attractive material.