Deborah Lau

Today Is My Birthday!

A Cantonese Rhyming Story Book (with Traditional Chinese and Jyutping)
Illustrator: Lau, Deborah

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Produktbeschreibung

FROM THE BACK COVER A heart-warming story about one little girl who celebrates her birthday with family and friends. Today is a special day for this little girl: it's her birthday and she's invited all her friends and family to a big birthday party! Count along with her as she greets her guests, blows out the candles on her birthday cake and opens her presents. Perfect for Cantonese speakers and bilingual/multilingual families who want to encourage their children to speak more Cantonese. FOR AGES 2 TO 6. Rhyming stories in everyday conversational Cantonese. Designed for non-native speakers and native speakers who struggle with reading Traditional Chinese. Includes phonetic Jyutping romanisation and free audiobook to help with pronunciation. Visit www.catlikestudio.com/readalong/ for free audiobooks. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Deborah Lau was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Australia. She speaks Cantonese at home but can't read any Chinese. When her daughter turned three, Deborah looked for Cantonese children's books but she struggled. None were as captivating as her daughter's English favorites. So she wrote books she could read with her daughter...without a dictionary!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 32
• Altersempfehlung: 2 bis 6 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2023
• Abmessung: 203mm x 203mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 86g
• ISBN-13: 9780645471779
• ISBN-10: 0645471771
• Artikelnr.: 68732218

Autorenporträt

Deborah Lau was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Australia. As a child, she loved to read but hated Chinese school: there was too much rote memorisation and not enough fun.When her daughter turned 3, Deborah searched for Chinese/bilingual books like her beloved English children's classics: captivating stories with vivid characters told in everyday language?but she struggled. Most are written for Mandarin speakers or assume the adult reader is fluent-and she can't even read the Chinese menu in a restaurant.It was hard to keep her daughter interested when she always had to stop reading to look up or explain the Chinese characters and phrases (especially since standard written Chinese is very different to spoken Cantonese). So she wrote a book they could read together?without a dictionary!