It's so fun to eat food cooked and carried on skewers! Let's explore numbers using tens frames alongside our skewer friends! Counting in two languages is so much fun with our skewers friends! Enjoying food cooked on skewers is a fun and delicious meal or snack time favorite -- after all, one can choose any ingredient to cook and eat, including meat, seafood, fruit, and vegetables. Our Skewers counting book uses adorable characters modeled after popular skewers to make it fun for children to learn to count in two languages -- English and Mandarin Chinese. Skewers squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as encouraging one-to-one correspondence while practicing counting on a tens grid. CULTURAL AND IMMERSION LEARNING MADE FUN! • THREE VERSIONS OF EVERY BOOK AVAILABLE: Mandarin with Traditional Chinese characters, Mandarin with Simplified Characters, Cantonese. • EARLY LITERACY TOOL WITH ZHUYIN, PINYIN, or JYUTPING PHONICS SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT READING CHINESE. Bitty Bao books have all the necessary language elements to support each family member wherever they may be in their language journey. Mandarin with Traditional Chinese books include Zhuyin and pinyin, Mandarin with Simplified Chinese books include pinyin, and Cantonese books include jyutping. • FREE BILINGUAL AUDIO READING IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE AVAILABLE FOR EVERY BOOK. Scan QR code on the back cover to hear the audio reading. Counting in two languages is so much fun with our skewers friends! A firewife, mom of a wee bitty babe, and the other half of the dynamic Bitty Bao Duo - meet Lacey Benard. As an American-Born-Chinese woman, raised without the gift of Chinese as a second language, Lacey is hoping to now prioritize language acquisition for her bitty babe through bilingual books, cultural events, and their school district's Mandarin dual immersion program. Lacey can often be found in the middle of the night hand cutting tiny bits of paper into cute images for the Bitty Bao books and hopes that you enjoy seeing them come to life in the books as much as she does. Meet Lulu Cheng, a wife, mom of 2 bitty babes, with her newest title - Bitty Bao Boss. Since her bitty babes were born, Lulu has worked hard to embed Chinese language and culture into everything that they do. Lulu's struggle to find cute bilingual Chinese books for her kids' bedtime soon evolved into a #bigbittydream to make Chinese Board Bookss of her own for families just like hers. She looks forward to sharing her journey of parenting, homemade Chinese teaching resources, and some late night bookmaking with you.