The Dou Dou Chinese readers were created by mother and daughter, Stella Beaver and Jessica Beaver. Their motivation was to create a HSK standardised early Chinese reader so that even very young children can pick up Chinese in a fun and easy manner. You can read more about them on their official website: Dou Dou Books.
If you don’t know what HSK is… it stands for Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, a standard Chinese proficiency test, analogous to the English TOEFL.
There are 10 books in this series, each one only 8 pages long. It’s nicely structured such that at the front of each book, the key Chinese vocabulary are laid out nicely, with pinyin pronunciation guide, and meaning.
Titles in this first set are: