When Ms May Lau's three children were in pre-school, she invested in a few different collections of Chinese storybooks to nurture their love of reading in their mother tongue. The books included the I Can Read series and Journey To The West comics.
Ms Lau, a 43-year-old marketing director, speaks only Mandarin to her children, though she says they answer in English 90 per cent of the time.
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