Bao Bao Learns Chinese Vol. 1, Chinese Baby Book, Learn Chinese for Kids, Mandarin Chinese Books for Toddlers, Board Books w/ Sound, Bilingual Musical Toys, for Beginners, Baby Learns Language

Bao Bao Learns Chinese is an excellent and fun way to introduce Mandarin to your child. It’s a sturdy board book with colorful, bright illustrations that are sure to capture little eyes. Each page features a picture along with both the English and Mandarin versions of the song lyrics. On the right side of the book are six buttons that correspond to the pages, making it interactive and engaging. The book includes the songs Itsy Bitsy Spider, Two Tigers, Find a Friend, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Mama Is the Best in the World, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The only downside is that it doesn’t sing in English as well. I would have loved to hear some traditional Chinese songs translated into English. Overall, it’s a great book and a wonderful introduction to Mandarin for young children.

My first reaction to this book was, “OMG, how awesome! I wish this book was around when my son was a baby/toddler!” Let me tell you why this book is so amazing – it’s not just a book, it’s a: (1) board book; (2) song book with music and singing; (3) book with some of the most popular Chinese nursery rhymes and translated American nursey rhymes that you all know; (4) interactive toy; and (5) a bilingual book in English, Chinese and Pinyin pronunciation – all rolled into one awesome book! What a wonderful concept! The author/singer is a mommy who created this book for her baby – she has a beautiful soothing voice and the songs brought me back to my childhood as well as when my son was a baby/toddler. Music is so important for babies and children. It has been shown that listening to music helps children develop the ability to decode auditory data and sharpen their auditory memory - abilities which are fundamental to language comprehension. This book will help your kids learn Chinese without it feeling like a lesson. The songs in this book are written in English with the Chinese and Pinyin pronunciation next to each phrase. Even if you can’t read Chinese, you can still sing along with the author by reading the Pinyin pronunciation. You will understand what you are singing/reading because the English is right there for you. This is also a fun and easier way to learn how to read the Chinese characters, too. As an added bonus, because this book is so sturdy and the song buttons are easy to push, your little ones can read/play with this book by themselves! Need a break for a few minutes? Give them this book! I really can’t say enough good things about this book!

We received this book when our baby was 6.5 months old. She enjoyed listening to it and looking at the images right away. She is now nearly 13 months old and engages with the book multiple times a day. She loves pressing the buttons and flipping the pages, and is even now starting to associate the pages with their corresponding song button. She loved the book so much that we ended up putting it in her change area, and she listens to it while we're changing her diaper and dressing her - it helps calm her down but also keeps her actively engaged. One of her first words was even "Bao Bao"! We don't speak Mandarin, but we had a native Mandarin speaker come to play with her in Mandarin a few times a week when she was 7-9 months old (would have continued, but the Coronavirus lockdown started), and she would sing these songs along with our baby, and found them to be accurately translated - as well as songs she remembered from her own childhood. We really enjoy the songs in this book, too, and have started being able to sing some of them - our tongues get tied on some songs and words, still, but it's fun to try to sing along! We also have the French Nursery Rhymes book from Cali's Books (which our baby also loves), but the Bao Bao book is much, much, much better quality in both construction and battery / button life, as well as in the length of the songs (Bao Bao songs are repeated twice, allowing you to actually get the hang of them, while Cali's Books songs are cut short). We've had to change the batteries of the Cali's Books one twice in the same time frame, while the original batteries in the Bao Bao book are still working perfectly.

This is my first time writing an Amazon and feels absolutely worth it for this book. I adore this book and it has already been a crowd-pleaser gift for families with babies and young toddlers. I have seen the enchanting quality this book has on my niece and her parents are so blown away that she knows every song by heart and carries the book around, and now she even sings the songs on her own! The imagery in the book is warm, welcoming, and loving and the corresponding nursery rhyme songs are both soothing and beautiful to listen to. I plan to gift this to all of my friends with young children, even got a copy for myself to listen as well. It can be both a lullaby for babies and then a perfect way to infuse learning Mandarin through music and learning - and frankly the book is just lovely for any family - whether you are keen to learn or just want another must-have with beautiful soothing nursery songs to add to your collection. I also see this as a way to help open children's eyes to a bigger world through exposure to language and leanings as they fall in love with Bao Bao! I highly recommend this book and already can’t wait for the next edition - a must-have for families!

I bought this book for my now-13 month old daughter who was 4 months at the time of purchase. This book was a great find! The illustrations are cute and the music is simple, yet engaging. It's really soothing and difficult to tire of the music, which is sung by a mum with a soft voice (this is not one of those annoying toys that needs to be vanished into the night!) Her dad is Chinese but not super familiar with kid's nursery rhyme type songs, so we can sing them together with the help of this book; luckily there is pinyin so I can follow along for hanzi I don't know. My daughter has always really enjoyed the music and through different phases of her development, first just listening, then swaying, then dancing, and now trying to sing along with the music! Her 2 year old friend, who is also half Chinese, also enjoyed reading and playing with this book when he came over to visit. This was an amazing purchase and I think my daughter will continue to enjoy it for years to come ❤️🐼

I speak Mandarin as a third language and want to also teach the language to my little one. This is the best English-Chinese book I’ve found so far: the songs are classic choices, the text is easy to follow and the singing is great. An element I’d recommend improving is the identification of buttons that correspond to a song; there is no label, and the images can be confusing. But I liked the overall package so much that I gifted it to a baby cousin.

Here's an update, now that we have had the book (and the companion book by the same author) for several months. My daughter loves them just as much as when they arrived. This will be my holiday gift to all friends with babies and toddlers. No need to have any Chinese background - I would get these books if they were in another language too, though I'm delighted that my child is learning to say and sing some Mandarin, early in life. Here's my original review: Buy this book. It is hands down one of the best things I have ever found for my 14 month old daughter. She sits with it in her little hands, entranced, and pushes the buttons to play the songs. I don’t mind that she plays them many times, since they are beautifully played on real instruments and the singer’s voice is lovely (unlike the tinny sound of many ‘musical’ toys). The book itself is well made and durable, and the volume is adjustable and good at both levels, unlike other sound books that are too soft or too loud. The songs are a great mix of familiar English nursery tunes, and Chinese songs. I am learning to sing the words in Mandarin, and am thrilled that this book and its companion (the author has made two) seem to be launching both baby and mama into learning Mandarin. Thank you!!

I loved these books for my son. I got Volume 1 when he was 2 years old and then Volume 2 as he learned all the songs and loves to hear them several times. He sings out loud all the songs and now my second baby dances to the songs also. The quaility, Volume, voice, translation are all I expected for and now I recently got Volume 3 also.