圓圓,去上廁所吧! Yuán-yuán, qù shàng cèsuǒ ba! Yuan-Yuan Goes Potty
Traditional Chinese, Pinyin, and English — all on the same page. One book the whole family can read together, whatever each person reads best.
三種語言,同一頁 Sān zhǒng yǔyán, tóng yí yè Three languages, one page
Most bilingual books make you choose a side, or flip to a glossary at the back. This one doesn't. Every line appears three ways, stacked together:
Traditional Chinese for the child learning characters. Pinyin for the parent who speaks Mandarin but reads it slowly. English for everyone else at the table — the other parent, a grandparent-in-law, a friend at a playdate.
Nobody gets left out of the story, and nobody has to stop reading to look something up.
翻開看看 Fān kāi kàn kan Look inside
Yuan-Yuan is at Grandma's house. The nappy feels tight. Grandma smiles and says the sentence this whole book is named after.
帶回家印一份 Dài huí jiā yìn yí fèn Print it at home
A trilingual potty reward chart and two Yuan-Yuan colouring pages, free. Seven days, four clouds a day — colour one in, or stick a sticker on top. The days of the week are labelled in Chinese, Pinyin, and English, so the chart teaches a little while it works.