Dongdong the Golden Monkey: Time is a beginner’s (300 words) Chinese reader, telling the story about Dongdong’s sense of time using concise language and fantastic illustrations. A wordlist is provided for the story in the book, and small exercises and a passage for extended reading are provided after the story to help students to do self-evaluations and teachers to conduct classroom activities. A free CD-ROM included narrates the story, the passage for extended reading and the wordlist in the book.