JoJo Chinese Songs for Baby & Me is an interactive six-book bilingual musical board book series that introduces babies and young children to Mandarin through songs, play, and everyday family moments. Following a child’s developmental journey from connection and movement to exploration, imagination, emotions, and independence, the series features 36 original songs and 300 essential everyday words. Designed for families of all language backgrounds, JoJo combines music, bonding, and research-based early language learning to make bilingual beginnings joyful, accessible, and meaningful.
Evaluation comments:
“These song books are great. Each book covers a different theme from greetings to movement, exploration, imagination, feels, and more.”
“The books themselves are board book style with the songs/sounds embedded in the pages.”
“There is a small button to press to start and stop the songs. The songs are short and sweet.”
“I love that the words to the songs are written in Chinese characters, phonetically in English (called pinyin) and also translated into English.”
“Mandarin Chinese is a very tonal language–a slight change in tone–can change the meaning of the word. Sometimes in songs, words are put to music, the words sometimes lose their tone and the words become hard to understand, but the songs here do a good job of maintaining the correct tones so kids are still learning the correct way to pronounce the words.”
“The illustrations it the books are interesting. I appreciate the diversity depicted in them. The sound quality of the songs is pretty good. Overall, this is a very nice set of song books.”
“We have been using these to learn new words, so I’m happy to have another tool to teach the kids new words. ”
“I love how simple the songs are. They are easy to follow, catchy, and funny!”