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by Lacey Benard (Author), Lulu Cheng (Author), Lacey Benard (Illustrator)
Introduce your bitty babes to their first book of colors that is bright, vibrant, and fun, and uses the favorite dessert, snow ice, to not only capture their attention and teaches them color words in two languages, but also celebrate Chinese culture!
Enjoy learning your colors in Mandarin while building Taiwanese snow ice - a sweet, fluffy dessert that melts in your mouth.
Snow ice is everyone's favorite refreshing and light dessert - mostly because of the ability to customize your dish with all your own favorite toppings! Our book of colors utilizes snow ice's various ingredients, as the subject for children to learn their colors. Children and adults alike will be delighted to find their favorite snow ice toppings included in the book as they turn each page.
Our book of colors squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as encouraging understanding of sequence, a non-fiction page with a simple recipe for making snow ice at home, and following step-by-step instructions.
Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Chinese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture through the introduction of everyone's favorite refreshing dessert, snow ice. Children will love as they turn each page and see a new colorful ingredient added to the yummy dessert. The vibrant colors and the expressive faces in the artwork make learning so much fun for everyone!
Author Biography
Lulu Cheng was born in Taipei, Taiwan and moved to the United States for college. Her love of books and learning intensified as she followed her passion to become an elementary teacher in Los Angeles, California. Once having her own children, she realized how important it was to her to raise them to be bilingual and biliterate. Her passion for passing on her language and culture to her own children sparked a fire inside of her to create books and learning materials in Chinese. She currently resides in Los Angeles, CA with her husband and two children where she enjoys planning family trips, taxiing her kids to their extracurriculars, and finding the best ice cream spots around town.
Lacey Benard was born in and grew up in Los Angeles. From a very early age, she loved all kinds of art, especially freehand scrapbooking and cardmaking using nothing but scissors, a Sharpie, and scraps of colored paper. She spent over a decade as a classroom teacher and eventually worked her way up to a school administrator role. While on hiatus from the field of education as she started her family, the opportunity to tap into her love of papercutting cute art presented itself through the creation of Bitty Bao. She currently resides in Dana Point, CA with her husband and two children where she enjoys catching all of her children's small moments, exploring new places, and eating yummy food.
