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Mama Gloria's Sunflower Garden
See a sunflower grow from seed to seed.
Mama Gloria Chinese-English Bilingual Books are a great introduction to high-interest topics for early readers. Each page has full-color photographs that go with the story and also highlights useful words. Text is shown in traditional Chinese characters, Mandarin pin yin, simplified Chinese characters, and English.
In addition to a list of useful vocabulary, at the back of each book are links to bonus audio files in Cantonese, Mandarin and American English read by the author at a slow pace for easy-to-use reference. These audio files are designed for older readers, such as adults, to read alongside early readers as young as from birth.
Use the following tips to maximize the use of each book and make them family favorites.
For newborns (0-6 months old): Instead of reading the text on the whole page, just point to the object that is on the page or a certain word that describes the object on the page.
For preverbal, babbling stage (6-12 months old): Continue to use the objects on the page. Try reading the whole sentence aloud and see how your child responds.
For toddlers (12 months-36 months): The older your child gets, the more you can start bringing more attention to the actual words on the page. You will be surprised at how well your child fares with whole word recognition.
For preschool and kindergarten: You can definitely start teaching spelling of the English words and how to even write some of the Chinese characters with their developing fine motor skills.
Mama Gloria Chinese-English Bilingual Books are a great introduction to high-interest topics for early readers. Each page has full-color photographs that go with the story and also highlights useful words. Text is shown in traditional Chinese characters, Mandarin pin yin, simplified Chinese characters, and English.
In addition to a list of useful vocabulary, at the back of each book are links to bonus audio files in Cantonese, Mandarin and American English read by the author at a slow pace for easy-to-use reference. These audio files are designed for older readers, such as adults, to read alongside early readers as young as from birth.
Use the following tips to maximize the use of each book and make them family favorites.
For newborns (0-6 months old): Instead of reading the text on the whole page, just point to the object that is on the page or a certain word that describes the object on the page.
For preverbal, babbling stage (6-12 months old): Continue to use the objects on the page. Try reading the whole sentence aloud and see how your child responds.
For toddlers (12 months-36 months): The older your child gets, the more you can start bringing more attention to the actual words on the page. You will be surprised at how well your child fares with whole word recognition.
For preschool and kindergarten: You can definitely start teaching spelling of the English words and how to even write some of the Chinese characters with their developing fine motor skills.
24 pages, Paperback
First published December 18, 2011
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About the author
Gloria Ng
27 books12 followersGloria Ng is an Oakland-based mother of three who writes on Owl Time. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including YELL-Oh Girls! (HarperCollins, 2001) Seeing the lack of bilingual books to read to her children, she created the Mama Gloria Chinese-English Bilingual Books series.
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February 5, 2015
This is a brightly illustrated, cheerful, and informative child's book about planting a sunflower seed and watching it grow.
The text is in English and Mandarin characters/graphs traditional as well as simplified and in pinyin. I believe there is an option to obtain a sound track so a reader/child would be able to hear the pronunciation of the Chinese. The author's presentation is meticulous--the shovel in the accompanying illustrations is bright and shiny.
The whole book is well conceived and executed. I have only one complaint--it is too short and I wanted more! Oh to be a child again.
The text is in English and Mandarin characters/graphs traditional as well as simplified and in pinyin. I believe there is an option to obtain a sound track so a reader/child would be able to hear the pronunciation of the Chinese. The author's presentation is meticulous--the shovel in the accompanying illustrations is bright and shiny.
The whole book is well conceived and executed. I have only one complaint--it is too short and I wanted more! Oh to be a child again.
January 4, 2015
This book is an excellent language learning resource for parents wanting to teach their young child Chinese, and for bi-lingual children learning to read. Using the simple but enjoyable story of growing sunflowers, the author provides a bi-lingual text that is appropriate for young readers. The accompanying photographs illustrate the text well, and the layout is nice, with good margins and enough white space. The font size is child-friendly, and excellent use is made of colour, with the text in the different languages in different colours. A delightful Chinese-English language resource
July 19, 2014
I'm constantly amazed that this stayed in the Amazon bestselling Top 100 list after hitting #2 shortly after New Year's Day in 2012!
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