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Includes: 1 musical book featuring 8 catchy nursery rhymes in Simplified Chinese.
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Description:This limited Winter Edition of Nursery Rhymes About Food is one of just 100 hand-numbered copies, created to celebrate the season with warmth, tradition, and belonging - a special-edition gift with a unique collaboration. It's perfect for those who treasure tradition and childhood songs they grew up with, and hope to share them with the next generation.
2 Michelin-starred chef Andrew Wong ✽✽ joins as a taster-in-chief, sharing the story of Tang Yuan, a sweet sticky rice dessert that's enjoyed across Chinese-speaking communities over the Winter Solstice. Playful nursery rhymes in Mandarin invite children to explore well-loved dishes and customs passed down through generations. Each copy includes a collector's recipe card and a keepsake pin to mark the Winter Solstice and signed by the author and the acclaimed chef himself. It's a celebration of food, family, and seasonal traditions.
This unique bilingual music toy-book makes the introduction to Chinese more immersive and fun through music and play - screen-free! Designed for families keen to take their child on an all-immersive bilingual journey. The book complements learning Mandarin with cultural context, helping children connect meaningfully to what they hear and sing. Lyrics include Chinese (simplified form), pinyin (a phonetic system designed for families learning Chinese as an additional language), and an English translation so that every family can sing, learn, and connect: no matter where they start from. Great for tactile little learners who love pressing buttons and singing along. Each rhyme is paired with playful illustrations that celebrate the culturally diverse communities around us.
Songs include:
1. Pull Out The Carrots / 拔蘿蔔 / Bá luó bo.
2. Sticky Rice Balls / 賣湯圓 /Mài Tang Yuán.
3. It's Snack Time. / 排排坐, 吃果果 / Pai pai zhuo.
4. Twelve Dinosaurs On A Picnic / 十二隻恐龍去野餐 /Shí'èr zhī kǒng lóng qù yě cān.
5. Tofu And Shrimp / 豆腐蒸虾米 / Dòu fu zhēng xiā mi.
6. The Mouse, The Carrot Thief / 老鼠偷蘿蔔 / Lǎo shǔ tōu luó bo
7. Let's Make Dumplings / 包饺子 / Bāo jiǎo zi.
8. Hardworking farmers / 憫農 /Mǐn nóng.
WINTER EDITION: Nursery Rhymes About Food in Mandarin (Simplified Chinese)
🌟 Lyrics to support non-fluent Chinese speakers: Lyrics are provided in Chinese traditional characters, English and also pinyin, a phonetics system that will allow even non-fluent Chinese speakers the opportunity to follow.
🌟 Actual buttons to press: Raised buttons to physically press, gives your child the satisfaction of being able to explore their tactile and physical nature. It also ensures the books will have a longer shelf life so that younger siblings can enjoy later on too.
🌟 Cute illustrations represent the culturally-diverse families we see and belong to. Illustrations are drawn to represent the culturally-diverse community we live in. Your child can be taken along a fun, cultural journey recognizing food and snacks, symbolic animals and colours that are associated with particular Chinese festivals. Illustrations also highlight the importance of family particularly the elderly within Chinese culture.
🌟 Catchy songs old and new: songs featured also allow parents to enjoy singing rhymes particularly classic ones that take them back down memory lane when they were a child. Bedtime reading became that little bit more special.
🌟 Cultivate a love of learning Chinese through an all-immersive experience of reading, music and play at a young age. The books help to nurture a sense of pride as your child realizes how speaking another language helps them better connect with multiple cultures including their own.
🌟 Nursery Rhymes About Food is for newborns, babies, toddlers, kids and even adults who want to go down memory lane singing songs they sang as a child.
Be sure to visit the US website if books purchased are to be shipped to the US or Canada.