Neither flannel nor crafting on my part this week, but a beautiful contribution nonetheless. On my recent trip to China, I purchased this chain of embroidered Chinese zodiac animals. Isn’t it stunning?! It will be used mostly around Chinese New Year’s, but I also look forward to getting it out for animal songs like “Old […]
Chinese Children’s Book Purchases
on April 12, 2012
On a recent trip to China I pcked up these books for the library at the Wangfujing Bookstore. None of the staff spoke English, but I grabbed a bilingual customer who assured me my choices were good ones and added the five Tutu books to my pile. Tutu’s a famiiar cartoon and she says our […]
Flannel Friday: Chinese Nursery Rhyme: Little Mouse
on May 27, 2011
To create a flannelboard with the One World Many Stories Summer Reading Program theme, I dug into Chinese and English Nursery Rhymes by Faye-Lynn Wu. It’s a bilingual book of rhymes including a compact disc with the songs in their original language (Chinese or English). Many of the rhymes show the universality of childhood and […]