Huy Voun Lee

In the park is a great book to teach us a different language in a great way.
This book is about a Mother who teaches her son how to remember Chinese by different things they see at the park. I like how the author has the pictures and meanings in the front explaining what the word is. The pictures actually show what the word of choice is. At the beginning of most pages they have the symbols of what the mother is trying to teach her son. This would be a great book for kids wanting to learn new words in a different language.… (more)

I like this book because the flow of the book is well organized. The main point of this book seems to teach the Chinese character and to teach how it formed. The story start with the main character on the snow day and his mother teaches him new Chinese characters. As page goes, while it gives easy Chinese characters to learn, the story line fits well. Characters sees things around the forest and the mom teaches the character of it, which will allow reader to remember the character easily. I also liked the illustration of the book. It well described how the chines character if formed by showing how it had come from. Since Chinese character is formed by appearance most of the time, by illustrate the tree that is in shape of Chinese character of tree will allow readers to remember it easily.… (more)