Award Winning Children’s Author Chris Lin----

Mandy and Pandy is an exciting series of twelve educationalchildren’s books, teaching parents and their children to speak Chinesestarting with Mandy and Pandy Say “Ni Hao Ma?” and Mandy andPandy Play “Let’s Count.” These two wonderful books not only includean accompanying CD, they also display Chinese characters as well aspin yin phonetics, which help the reader pronounce the Chinesecharacters. “Mandy and Pandy quickly became a part of my family’s household aswell as many of my friends, family and neighbors’, said Inge Bynens,Marketing Director of Mandy and Pandy. “I believe in these books andtheir purpose so strongly that I wanted to be part of Mandy and Pandyso that others could experience the joy and education in their homesas Mandy and Pandy has brought into mine.” Author and creator Chris Lin says he sees the importance of learningChinese as a good foundation for the future so that now more thanever all have a reason to learn a little bit of Chinese. After their debutat BookExpo America, books 3 and 4 were released in 2008 to coincidewith the Beijing Olympics. These are Mandy and Pandy “Visit China” and Mandy and Pandy “Play Sports.” Two new books will be released inJune of 2009 and these are Mandy and Pandy play “What colors do yousee?” and “Visit the Zoo”. “Mandy and Pandy look forward to helping teach Chinese to childrenand those who are young in their hearts,” said Chris Lin. “Our year isfull of appearances across the country and we are excited to be in theNew York area as we continue on our journey.” Mandy and Pandy has already been recognized as outstanding productby iParenting Media in the category of educational books for childrenas well as being nominated for several upcoming book awards.