{"id":637,"date":"2012-01-24T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/?p=637"},"modified":"2012-01-24T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T14:12:42","slug":"diy-bilingual-board-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2012\/01\/diy-bilingual-board-books\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Bilingual Board Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DIY<\/a>Just because mainstream publishers haven’t caught up with the demand for bilingual Chinese-English children’s books doesn’t mean you don’t have options. Do it yourself and you can choose from the best books out there!<\/p>\n

I started with Sara Anderson’s Vegetables<\/a>\"\" because, like the Gordon & Li Li<\/a> series, it meets my criteria of board book with one page per concept and lots of colors. Since it’s basically a shopping list, I don’t have to worry about grammar or idioms (for the most part).<\/p>\n

I translated the entire book with the help of Google<\/a>, using my vestigial linguistic memory to pick the right choice when necessary. Then I assembled the words onto a Word template and printed it onto a clear return address label page. The result is not bad, though on dark color pages the “clear” labels are very visible (which is perhaps a good thing, because those pages have terrible contrast against black ink, my only complaint about the book itself).<\/p>\n

If you’d like to do this one yourself, go get the Vegetables<\/a>\"\" book, download my pinyin and simplified Chinese labels<\/a> for it, print onto Avery clear return address labels (Avery 18667, which has 4×20 labels measuring 1\/2″ x 1 3\/4″), and stick them into your book. Voil\u00e0<\/em>: instant bilingual book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just because mainstream publishers haven’t caught up with the demand for bilingual Chinese-English children’s books doesn’t mean you don’t have options. Do it yourself and you can choose from the best books out there! I started with Sara Anderson’s Vegetables … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44936],"tags":[44941,44953,1233],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingual-english-chinese","tag-bilingual-chinese-english","tag-board-book","tag-diy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}