A new collaboration between Auntie Choi, a popular storyteller in Hong Kong, and Zhimin Huang, an award-winning artist in Taiwan!

Join us into Auntie Choi’s garden and observe how vegetables and fruits with various personalities grow together. Along the way, they learn to appreciate and accept each other. Eventually, they all build their own character.

This series includes 5 books: Just Chili, Shy Taro, Confident Asparagus, Hyperactive Spinach, and Serious Broccoli.

I really want to change myself!
Every day when Taro wakes up, she has to face her biggest weakness—shyness!
It brings her a lot of troubles.
On this day, the teacher announces that all students must participate in the “Reading and Sharing” activity.
This makes Taro worried and scared.
Can she make it through?

Book Features

As a senior parent-child reading advocate, author Auntie Choi understands the importance of reading to children, so she uses her lively and interesting words to make children fall in love with reading.

Mr. Huang’s illustrations are elaborate and delicate with a lasting beauty. They can attract children to read.

The stories are meaningful. The content helps children face their weakness of being shy, and encourages them to change. It not only presents positive thoughts and values, but teaches kids the importance of appreciating and accepting the uniqueness of each person.

Auntie Choi will appear in the book from time to time. She would bring out extended questions or small activities about the story to make the book more interactive. This design prompts children to be more involved. In this way, they can think from multiple perspectives, and thus reflect more on what the story theme of “shyness” means.