The Catch Star Girl Blog

Straddling the divide between Asian and North American Culture

On raising a bilingual child – two year mark

The issue of raising little E bilingual – rephrase that as, getting as much Chinese into him as possible –

Sometimes I find myself making so many notes while I am reading a novel that I then know I need

There are three parts to this rant. You have been warned. What to call E’s grandmother What to call your

As it tends to happen with Lisa See novels, I hear about them around publication and the marketing machinery sucks

It was while wandering around Chapters one day last summer that I saw the cover of Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan’s Sarong

I referred to it last August and finally I have selected a new magazine-style theme for this blog: ColorMag. It

It is plain to see – and utterly adorable to me – that little E’s favourite consonants are “B” and

When I first saw the 2016 Lunar Silver Notes of Fortune set on the Canadian Mint website, I was floored.

When I was a regular at Baby Storytimes at the library – such a great resource! – in 2016, I

This post’s title reminds me the Chinese version of the ABC song that I recently learned of (YouTube link). Of