It’s My Book - Guided Reading in Chinese series is a set of Chinese learning materials for the North American children from Kindergarten to fifth grade. Each level consists of 30 volumes, concluding six themes namely individual, family, school, social, animal and plant and natural. Each theme has five small stories, and each story for one book. The difficulty level of the words in each level is controlled.

It’s My Book establishes a system of reading levels based on the high frequently used Chinese characters from authorized Chinese textbook as well as the standards of International Curriculum for Chinese language Education by Hanban, China. 13 levels of Chinese reading set up in a range of 50 to 1,200 Chinese most frequently used characters. Reading text is leveled according to various parameters, including total character count, number of new words, sentence patterns, sentence length, and sentence complexity.

This teaching material uses the guided reading teaching method, and is equipped with excellent teaching methods for teachers and parents. These methods have a practical guiding significance, especially for teaching, since the process is very detailedand provides a good guiding for teachers.

The fairy tale stories are created by the Chinese professional author and the Chinese teachers. The stories combined with the beautifully drawn pictures can peak the children's reading interests and their ability to master the level.

This set of books is the level 1. It contains 30 stories and each story is about 50 words.

The editor, Zhining Chin, received her master's and PhD degree at the University of Minnesota. She had been serving as a Chinese consultant in XinXing Academy and Hopkins Public Schools of Minnesota since 2007. She is the founder and member of the Council of Yinghua language school which is the nation's first Chinese immersion school. And she used to be the Assessment Evaluation and Research Coordinator and Chinese Language and Cultural Advisor in Hopkins Public Schools of Minnesota. Along with serving as the assessment specialist at the Minnesota Department of Education, she was also a testing supervisor for St. Paul Public Schools.

Vicki Cheng is a professional writer of children's book and has published dozens of children's books.

1. It’s My Book establishes a system of reading levels based on the practice of Chinese teaching for children in America.

2. This series is graded into 13 levels according to the standards of International Curriculum for Chinese language Education. And the difficulty level of the words, and the process of selecting the new words. These standards need to cater to the various types and levels of Chinese teaching.

3. The series is instructed by the mature teaching theory of guided reading.

4. The stories combined with the beautifully drawn pictures can peak the children's reading interests and their ability to master the level.