Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

Finding books for our kids to read in Chinese is a problem, especially for parents who don’t themselves read Chinese.
To help get more books into our kids’ hands, Mandarin Immersion Parents Council parents with children in 3rd and 4th grade met last week with  Xiangyan Liu, the Course Materials Editor for NanHai bookstore’s Chinese Language Materials department, in Millbrae, Calif.

The kids spent two hours going through over 200 books, telling Ms. Liu which ones they understood, which ones were too baby-ish and which ones were too boring.

The staff at Nanhai did a good job of pulling together what books there were, but the pickings were slim. In the end the Mandarin immersion students did a whole lot of sorting and less finding than we might have liked, but we all knew it was a difficult assignment.

We look forward to working more with Nanhai, and other companies and publishers, to find appropriate Chinese books that our  kids will love to read.