Massachusetts sister write bilingual kids mystery

New England Public Media

On a late afternoon in Hadley, Massachusetts, a small crowd of kids and their grown-ups are in the children’s room at the public library, listening to sixth grader Emma Barrett and Belley Barrett, in second grade, read from their new, bilingual book, Sister Detectives.

The two sisters illustrated and wrote the Chinese and English story. The girls, dressed as matching sleuths in houndstooth capes and caps, began to read. Emma took the lead on the English, Belley read in Chinese.

“For hobbies, Belley and I are little detectives who solve cases when we are not busy doing schoolwork,” Emma read in English.

“我們的愛好是當個小偵探， 在課余閑暇解決棘手案件,” Belley read in Chinese.

The tale is about two sisters (who the authors named after themselves) hired to find the thief who stole all the strawberry ice cream bars from the Neverending Ice Cream Store.

Please read more here.