We just released the second book in our new series, Heroes of Ancient China. It’s called Chang’e the Moon Goddess, and it’s written by the best-selling team of Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang. Here’s the back cover blurb: Chang’e, eldest daughter of a powerful sky god, makes a foolish mistake and is exiled from the heavenly world, condemned to live out her days as an earthbound mortal. The archer Hou Yi dives through the…

Many of our readers are interested in selecting books based on the total number of different Chinese words used to tell the story. So I thought it would be useful to list all our fiction books and show the Chinese vocabulary total for each. The list is at the bottom of this post. There’s quite a range in vocabulary size, from our beginning reader “Twenty Three Cats” with just 101 words, up to the complete…

We just published our first totally new story in almost a year. It’s the classic Chinese legend The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl (牛郎织女). This is a wonderful story, told using fewer than 500 Chinese words, most of which are in the HSK3 vocabulary list. While most versions of this story are short, our version comes in at 15,000 Chinese characters, which works out to about 10,000 words. The book is 225 pages long. As usual, the…