28 February 2022

Cantonese Books with Jyutping

Cantonese books with jyutping is a game changer for non fluent families. It is inclusive to families who are learning to speak or read in Cantonese. Cantonese is a very hard language, a consistent pronunciation guide is helpful for us learners to learn the language together, communicate with each other and look up unfamiliar words. If you are new to jyutping, it is a romanization system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Jyutping and Yale are the most common Cantonese romanization. However, I have found jyutping is more accessible in resources and books than yale. To learn more about jyutping, you can watch the following videos on YouTube: jyutping introduction and Cantonese tones.

 

I am thrilled to see many Cantonese resources available now. The community has really thrived in the last couple of years. Below I will share some books that have jyutping that you might want to add to your home library.

 

If you are looking for more Cantonese content with Jyutping, make sure to check out my shop and printables for more fun activities.

 

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Board Books

 

Duck Duck Books

 

  • I Am Me! 我就係我自己！
  • All Puppies Are Good Puppies 所有嘅狗仔都係乖狗仔
  • I Love You More 我最愛嘅人就係你
  • Kitty Learns a New Lesson 貓仔學識新本領

 

Available in many countries. Full list here.

 

Bitty Bao, Lulu Cheng & Lacey Benard

 

  • Counting with Dim Sum
  • The Colors of Snow Ice
  • Everyday Heroes
  • Celebrating Chinese New Year – a book about family
  • Lucky Lunar Animals – a book of animals
  • Dragon Boat Festival – a book of shapes
  • Boba Emotions – a book of emotions
  • Foodie Detectives – a book of clues
  • It’s Hot Pot Time!
  • Mid-Autumn Festival
  • Mooncakes
  • Our Moon – a book of astronomy
  • Night Market
  • Skewers

 

Also available at Yuto, Little Kozzi, 2BWell Kids, Summit Kids, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

 

Jojo Adventure Books, Emily Shan

 

  • Jojo Goes to the Aquarium 祖兒去水族館
  • Jojo Goes Berry Picking 祖兒去摘莓
  • Jojo Goes to the Zoo 祖兒去動物園
  • Jojo Goes to the Brooklyn Bridge Park 祖兒去布碌崙大橋公園
  • Jojo Goes Apple Picking 祖兒去摘蘋果
  • Jojo Goes Trick-or-Treating 祖兒去

 

Also available at Yuto, and Little Kozzi.

 

Baby Snack Time, Judy Li

 

  • Baby Snack Time 寶寶嘅零食時間
  • Let’s Celebrate

 

Love to Sing, Yanna and Lee

  • Love to Sing Cantonese

 

Bowie’s Adventures, Lisa Chan

 

  • Bowie’s Daily Adventures 寶怡每天的冒險
  • Bowie’s School Trip

 

Kebi Book, Nathan

 

  • A Magical Book of Numbers*

 

Also available at Little Kozzi, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

 

* The physical book features Mandarin text and pinyin. With the augmented reality (AR) app, the book can display Cantonese text, jyutping and Cantonese audio.

 

Tiny Tiger Press, Carol

 

 

 

 

Cantonese Stories written in Conversational Cantonese

 

These books are written in conversational Cantonese. You will see words such as 嘅 instead of 的 and 係 instead of 是.

 

Little Canto Learning, Farina Leong

 

  • My Troublesome Little Sister 我的麻煩妹妹
  • My Grandma 我的嫲嫲, 我的婆婆
  • Little Har Gau & Little Siu Mai 小蝦餃和小燒賣
  • My Gung Gung 我的公公

 

Available at Amazon.

 

Mooliprint, Ann Hamilton

 

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears 高蒂樂絲與三隻小熊
  • The Three Little Pigs 三隻小豬
  • Oh No, Monty! 唔好呀，Monty!
  • Rapunzel 長髮姑娘
  • The Hare and The Tortoise 龜兔賽跑
  • The Magic Porridge Pot 魔法煲

 

Also available at Amazon.

 

Bitty Bao, miscellaneous authors

 

  • Legend of Chang’e, by Ling Lee & Eric Lee
  • Fortune Cookie Dreams, by Serene Chan

 

Discover with Jade, Sheun Lee

 

  • Gung Gung’s Garden 公公嘅菜園 
  • The Flower Garden 花園奇遇記

 

Also available at Little Kozzi, Indigo and Amazon.

 

Lele and Monkey, Tiffany Kwan

 

  • Lele Goes Out to Play 樂樂出去玩
  • Monkey’s Great Adventure 馬騮仔的大冒險

 

Also available at Little Kozzi, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.
 

Pine Blossom Books, Katie Tang 

 

  • A Quiet Heart Keeps You Cool 心靜自然涼

 

Green Cow Books, Karen Yee

 

  • Calvin Goes to School 嘉文去返學

  • Calvin Celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival 嘉文慶祝中秋節

 

Lychee Press, Katrina Liu

 

  • Mina Goes to the Beach 米娜去沙灘
  • A Colorful World 彩色世界
  • I Found It 我搵到喇
  • I Love My Grandpa 我愛我嘅公公
  • A Gift for Popo 畀婆婆嘅禮物

  • Mina’s First Day of School 米娜返學嘅第一日

  • Let’s Go to the Farmers’ Market 我地去農夫市場喇

  • Mina's Scavenger Hunt 米娜嘅尋寶遊戲

  • Mama's Fruit Belly 媽媽嘅生果肚䏙

  • Naptime Powers! 瞓晏覺嘅力量

  • My Birthday Cake 我嘅生日蛋糕

 

Also available at Amazon.

 

Cue Education, Kapo Szeto

 

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

 

Cat Like Studio Books, Deborah Lau

 

  • Today is my Birthday! 今日係我生日啊
  • Cycling in Spring 春天踩單車
  • My Rescue Cat 我隻領養貓

 

Available at Amazon.

 

Jok Sing Jai, Samantha Chan

 

  • I’m Too Loud! 我太嘈啦!

 

Available at Amazon.

 

Annie Mau

 

 

Also available at Little Kozzi and more.

 

Hambaanglaang

 

  • Full Collection of 40 books, hard copy
  • Also has free resources on their website and YouTube channel

 

Also available at Yuto, Little Kozzi and more.

 

 

Cantonese Stories Written in Standard Chinese

 

These books are written in the standard Chinese written form.

 

Jok Sing Jai, Samantha Chan

 

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

 

Available at Amazon.

 

Super Speak Juniors, M Kan & H Wang

 

  • Chinese Legends

 

Available at Amazon.

 

 

 

Vocabulary Books

 

Little Canto Learning, Farina Leong

 

  • My First Words in Chinese
  • Animals 動物
  • Daily Vocab 日常生活對話
  • Daily Vocab 日常生活對話 2
  • Food and Drink 食物和飲品
  • My House 我的屋

 

Available at Amazon.

 

Green Cow Books, Karen Yee

 

  • My First Everyday Words
  • My First Animals
  • My First Colors
  • My First Book of Things that Go
  • Goh Goh and Dai Dai’s
  • Big Day with Elephant

 

Also available at Little Kozzi, De Ziremi 禧西利米 and more.

 

 

 

Level Readers

 

Little Bean Cantonese, Sophie & Nanz

 

  • 小豆釘， 40 issues available

 

Only available at Little Bean Cantonese’s Patreon page. Only introduction of characters includes jyutping. Rest of the text does not include jyutping.

 

 

 

Idioms

 

Ah To

 

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Also available at Little Kozzi

 

 

 

Nursery Rhymes

 

  • Classic Cantonese Nursery Rhymes (with Jyutping) • 廣府童謠氹氹轉（彩圖粵語注音版）
  • Cantonese Tang Poetry (with Jyutping) • 粵韻唐詩（彩圖粵語注音版）
  • Cantonese Song Poetry (with Jyutping) • 粵韻宋詞（彩圖粵語注音版）

 

Also available at Little Kozzi.

 

Little Bean Cantonese, Sophie Yeung and Helena Lee

 

  • 點指兵兵學粵拼 Little Jyutping Fighter

 

 

 

Learn to Speak Cantonese

 

Inspirlang, Jade Wu

 

  • Learn to Speak Cantonese I
  • Learn to Speak Cantonese 2

 

Also available at Amazon.

 

Little Canto Learning, Farina Leong

 

  • Daily Conversation 日常生活對話

 

Mooliprint, Ann Hamilton

 

  • Every Day Cantonese for Parents

 

Also available at Amazon.

 

Cantonese for Everyone 大家嘅廣東話， Chow Bun Ching

 

 

 

Bilingual Activity Books & Games

 

Sweet Note Learning, Pauline

 

 

Little Canto Learning, Farina

 

EdKids Home, Ruby

 

Cantonese4Parents, Becca

 

 

Fortune Cookie Mom, Po Tim

 

Add Oil Cantonese

 

 

 

That is all the jyutping resources for now. I am looking forward to the new creations that families will make. Will be back to update this page when I find more resources. In the meantime, if you are looking for more printables with jyutping, please check my free downloadable printables or my shop for more learning opportunities.

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