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  • Our Customers

    We make it easier for Mandarin teachers to both access high-quality, relevant and affordable resources for their classrooms and support continued learning in the homes of their students. We also strive to demystify Mandarin for native English speakers and to empower native Mandarin-speaking expats to pass on their heritage language to their kids.

  • Who We Are

    Little Crab Educational Press is a Canadian, sister-owned and women-operated, independent publisher and distributor dedicated to the development of bilingual edutainment products in Simplified Chinese and English which touch on the Seven Language Skills. Our core team is made up of certified language teachers and a designer.

  • Our Offerings

    We create high-quality language learning products that are flexible in their use, including: Children’s books, learning trackers, activity books, guided journals, handwriting practice books, vocabulary builder books with curated word lists, composition and translation notebooks, and worksheets. And more to come in the future.

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Short of moving to a place where your target language is the community language, the best thing you can do to accelerate your language learning progress is to simulate a language-immersion environment around you.

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Featured Seasonal Collection

The Happy Places Theme includes our Study Chinese Gratitude Journal 感恩日记: 一年52个感恩提示 / 52 Writing Prompts for 1 Year of Thankfulness which inspired a line of gifts and goods that bring bold, cheerful colour and serious style with its hand-drawn illustration of rocks stretching into Canadian west coast water from the shore (the Beach line), coastal mountains soaring above the west coast ocean (the Mountain line), and a Canadian west coast evergreen forest (the Forest line). Here you can find our gratitude journal, personal accessories, decor, and more.

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We Are For You If...

If you are a parent helping your family to learn Mandarin, or are an educator helping people of any age learn Mandarin, we have resources to support the Seven Language Skills of speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in Mandarin - made just for you.

Want us to help you curate our products to meet your needs? We are always just an email away.

Want something you don't see here? We are always open to collaboration on bespoke products.

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    "As a preschool teacher and lover of children's literature, I am in love with this book. The illustrations are wonderful with characters that both parents an children will immediately bond with and love. I also like the theme of these stories as a way of introducing both parents and children to the Chinese language and its characters..."

    - Bert, Amazon Customer

  • Full colour cover of bilingual Mandarin/English children's storybook Little Byron - Xiǎo Bái Rèn - 小白任

    Little Byron / 小白任

    Follow Byron on a voyage through his imagination, which starts in the real world (his bedroom) and takes him over the sea to a deserted island where he finds a very real treasure and returns with it to the real world again. The primary target language of this book is the numbers 1-10.

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  • 3 full colour book cover variations for Study Chinese Guided Journal from Little Crab Press showing a Mountain, a Beach, and a Forest theme

    Study Chinese Gratitude Journal / 感恩日记

    By this time next year you will have created a record of your time to look back on and appreciate how far you have come. This journal is perfect for native speakers of Chinese or students of Mandarin, from age 10 to 100.

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More than Mandarin

  • Whether you're tackling a bucket list goal, learning out of necessity for work, life, or love, a struggling or succeeding polyglot, a classroom language teacher (of any language!), a word nerd or curious human obsessed with etymology or linguistics, or a parent raising bilingual/multilingual kids…you’re our people.

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