The Ultimate List of Cantonese Children's Books (constantly updated)

Having written so many different blogposts about the different Cantonese children’s books, I thought it would make sense to consolidate them all on one page, for ease of reference, and I would continue to update the page. It helps to see entire series of books, or to choose what we might like. The list is of course not exhaustive, much as I try to make it so. If you know of any other books, or have a book you would like to include, leave me a comment.

1 Board Books

Serena Y Li | Duck Duck Books (Review)

I Am Me!: 我就係我自己！ 978-1-7372039-7-1
All Puppies Are Good Puppies: 所有嘅狗仔都係乖狗仔 978-1-7372039-9-5
I Love You More: 我最愛嘅人就係你 979-8-9855552-2-6

Lacey Benard & Lulu Cheng | Bitty Bao Books (Review)

Everyday Heroes – Board Book 生活中的英雄,
Counting With Dim Sum 跟著點心數數
The Colors of Snow Ice 彩色雪花冰

Nessie Sharpe |Coprosma Books (Review)

Hurrah for Yum Cha! 978-0-473-52325-1
Bang Bang Noodles 978-0-473-53656-5

Poly Polly: Customized multilingual children’s books (Review)

2 Colloquial Cantonese Books

Visual Dictionaries (with Jyutping)

Little Canto Learning – My First Words in Chinese: Cantonese with Jyutping 979-8596950205 (Review)

– Learning Conversational Cantonese for Kids (Review)

Animals in Cantonese-English book 979-8649958752
Daily Vocabulary in Cantonese-English book 979-8673881378
Food & drink in Cantonese-English book 979-8654148407
My House in Cantonese-English book 979-8693627154

Cue Immersion Cantonese – English Audiobooks 廣東話英語音響圖書 (Review)

溫溫暖暖過冬天 Dressing Warm for Winter
多變的天氣 The Everchanging Weather
我的心情 The Way I Feel
餐具 Eating Utensils
誰在森林裡? Who’s in the Forest?
我的日常生活 My Daily Routine
齊齊食點心 Let’s Have Dim Sum
新年快樂! Happy Chinese New Year!
中式餅店 Chinese Bakery
陪我環遊世界 Travel the World with Me

Karen Yee| Cantonese for Kids – My First Series by (Review)

My First Everyday Words 978-0999273036
My First Animals 978-0999273005
My First Colors 978-0999273050
My First Book of Things that Go 978-0999273074

Dawn Kwok and David Walters – My First Cantonese Words 978-1700654298 (Review)

Oasis Chinese books – My First Bilingual Cantonese – English books by (Review)

My First Bilingual Cantonese – English Animals: Cantonese for kids 978-1794667815
My First Bilingual Cantonese – English Emotions: Cantonese for kids 979-8603735979
My First Bilingual Cantonese – English Fruit & Vegetables: Cantonese for kids 978-1726446785

Sibey Nostalgic – My first book of Cantonese words by (Review)

Innovative Languages – Kids vs Cantonese iBook: Talking World eBook by (Review)

Visual Dictionaries with other Romanisation

Susana Ng – Interesting Cantonese for Kids 9789888207954 (Review)

Sow Publishing (Review)

Visual Dictionaries with no Romanisation

Yellow Bus Publishing – McDull’s Cantonese vs Mandarin/ Chinese series 麥兜「廣州話對普通話」系列黃巴士 (Review)

Richard Carlson – English-Chinese Traditional Cantonese Bilingual Children’s Picture Dictionary Book Series (Review)

Hui Ying Yin (Review)

My First 100 Basic Cantonese English Words for Kids 979-8487016980
My First House Picture Dictionary : Cantonese – English 979-8496814102

Picture Books

Deborah Lau | Catlike Studio – Cantonese/English bilingual rhyming story book

Today is my Birthday! 今日係我生日啊！ 978-0-6451498-2-1/ 978-0645149807 (Review)
Cycling in Spring 春天踩單車/ 978-0645149869/ 978-0645149852 (Review)

Farina Leong | Little Canto Learning

My Troublesome Little Sister 我的麻煩妹妹 979-8767812493 (Review)
My Po Po 我的婆婆 979-8442461046 / 978-1739759612 (Review)
My Grandma 我的嫲嫲 979-8817870091 (Review)

Katrina Liu | Mina Learns Chinese (Cantonese editions)

Mina Goes to the Beach 米娜去沙灘 978-1953281524/ 978-1953281500 (Review)
I love my Grandpa我愛我嘅公公 978-1953281609 /978-1953281593 (Review)
I found it! 我搵到喇 978-1953281562/ 978-1953281555 (Review)

Ann Hamilton/ Mooli Print – Bilingual Cantonese Fairy Tales (Review)

The Three Little Pigs 三隻小豬 979-8512558515 / 978-1838209582
Goldilocks and the Three Bears 高蒂樂絲與三隻小熊 978-1838209520 / 978-1838209537

Karen Yee – Goh Goh and Dai Dai’s Big Day with Elephant 978-0999273067/ 978-1955188067 (Review)

Lin and Edward Choi – Dim Sum, Please!: A Bilingual English & Cantonese Children’s Book 979-8667652083 (Review)

Richard Carlson’s Children’s Picture Books (Review)

I Found It : Children’s Picture Book English-Chinese Traditional Cantonese (Bilingual Edition)
L’ho trovato” : Libro illustrato per bambini Italiano-Cantonese Tradizionale Cinese (Edizione bilingue)
English-Chinese Traditional Cantonese My Feelings Are Hurt/我的情感受到了傷害 Children’s Bilingual Picture Book
English-Chinese Traditional Cantonese The Story of the Diary of Anne Frank/安妮日記的故事 Children’s Bilingual Picture Book

Storybooks for older kids

The Little Prince 小王子

The Little Prince Cantonese edition (小王子廣東話版) 9789887732556 (Review)
The Little Prince Jyutping edition 小王子（香港粵拼版）9789887553434

Animal Farm 動物農莊香港粵文版

3 Chinese books with Jyutping

M Kan and H Wang | Superspeak Juniors (Review)

My First Cantonese Words 978-1-9196388-3-6
My First Cantonese Rhyming Book – Traditional Chinese with Cantonese Jyutping 978-1-8381799-9-1/978-1-9196388-1-2
Chinese Legends – Chinese Zodiac, Mid-Autumn Festival & Dragon Boat Festival 978-1-8381799-3-9

Samantha Chan | Jok Sing Jai (Review)

Lucky Red Mittens 幸運紅手套 979-8592482168
What Fruit Am I? 我是什麼水果? 979-8714260186
Who’s Not Sharing? 誰不是在分享? 979-8565941111
Because My Mommy Loves Me 因為我的媽媽愛我 979-8741191569
I Love My Daddy 我愛爸爸 979-8513162131
Who’s The Winner? 誰勝出了? 979-8800137590
Chinese New Year Greetings For Jok Sings (Review)

Frita Von Fable – 小廚師與菠蘿包 – Cooking Baby Makes Pineapple Buns 979-8510794335 (Review)

4 Graded Readers

冚唪唥粵文讀本 Hambaanglaang Cantonese Graded Readers (Read about them in this dedicated post).

Storybooks Canada: Free 40 Leveled Readers in Colloquial Cantonese (eBooks) (review)

5 Chinese Writing Workbooks and Activity Books

M Kan and H Wang | Superspeak Juniors

Chinese Writing Workbook: First 100 Words 978-1-8381799-0-8
Chinese Writing Workbook 2 978-1-8381799-4-6
Chinese Writing Workbook 3 978-1-8381799-6-0
Bilingual Colouring Book in Traditional Chinese with Jyutping 978-1-8381799-8-4

This list will be regularly updated. If you know of any good books that I have missed, please let me know!

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