Books
Chinese graded readers
Short books for HSK 2 to HSK 6, each checked word by word, with pinyin and the English. Read them free in the Library with audio in two voices and every word tappable: all of Journey to the West, and chapter 1 of the others.
西游记 Journey to the West
外婆的本子 Grandma's Notebook
Yuan is seventeen, grew up in Canada and speaks slow, careful Chinese. He spends the summer with his grandmother in a small river town, and she shows him her small blue notebook: forty years of words heard on her train routes, one word under a little drawing on each page. One by one, Yuan goes to find the pages: the wet market, the bun shop downstairs, a bamboo raft on the Li River, the tea hills of Hangzhou, and the young man in the last drawing.
又是星期五 Friday Again
Xiaoxia works the early shift in a tiny coffee shop by a bus stop in Shanghai. Every morning at seven her very fat cat sits on her face, the rain starts, Mum calls at 7:30 and Xiaoxia doesn't answer. And every morning it is Friday again. To reach Saturday, she has to work out what this Friday wants from her.
