Today Is My Birthday!: A Cantonese Rhyming Story Book (with Traditional Chinese and Jyutping)

FROM THE BACK COVER A heart-warming story about one little girl who celebrates her birthday with family and friends. Today is a special day for this little girl: it's her birthday and she's invited all her friends and family to a big birthday party! Count along with her as she greets her guests, blows out the candles on her birthday cake and opens her presents. Perfect for Cantonese speakers and bilingual/multilingual families who want to encourage their children to speak more Cantonese. FOR AGES 2 TO 6. Rhyming stories in everyday conversational Cantonese. Designed for non-native speakers and native speakers who struggle with reading Traditional Chinese. Includes phonetic Jyutping romanisation and free audiobook to help with pronunciation. Visit www.catlikestudio.com/readalong/ for free audiobooks. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Deborah Lau was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Australia. She speaks Cantonese at home but can't read any Chinese. When her daughter turned three, Deborah looked for Cantonese children's books but she struggled. None were as captivating as her daughter's English favorites. So she wrote books she could read with her daughter...without a dictionary!