Guides to Chinese culture
Four of the guides are magazine-style books on Chinese culture, each about 40 pages, designed to be read through and then kept for reference.
The 24 Solar Terms Magazine gives each of the 24 terms of the Chinese solar calendar its own page, with approximate dates, the three pentads and an antique botanical or natural-history plate. It adds a Tang or Song poem for each season, in Chinese with an English translation, and ends with a tracker for keeping your own year.
The Way of Tea sorts Chinese tea into its six families, green, white, yellow, oolong, red and dark, and then shows how to brew with a gaiwan, a clay pot, an ordinary mug or cold brew. The last pages are logs for the teas you try.
The Zodiac Code gives each of the twelve signs a two-page spread, and its lookup table with Lunar New Year dates settles which sign you are if you were born in January or February.
Traditional Chinese Colors is the one for designers: a full page for each color, with its Chinese name and pinyin, HEX, RGB and CMYK values and three pairings from the same palette.
If you only want one, choose by what you'll do with it. The tea magazine is the most practical day to day, the colors guide is a working reference for design, and the solar terms and zodiac books are for reading and for following the calendar through the year.
Guides for a project
These are closer to workbooks. Each one explains a process and gives you pages to plan on, so you finish with decisions on paper rather than a pile of notes.
The Homeschool Starter Guide is for families who have decided to homeschool and don't know what to do first. It puts the steps in order, from your reasons, to legal paperwork, to curriculum, to daily life, and includes a 90-day launch plan. Homeschool rules differ from state to state, so treat its legal section as a map of questions to check locally.
The Activity Book Creator's Guide takes you from an idea to a finished, print-ready kids' activity book using free tools, then covers listing, pricing and marketing it.
The Collage Aesthetic Idea Book is a visual idea book rather than a set of instructions. It hands you palettes, compositions, textures and words to borrow, with blank pages to try them on.
A reference for the house
The Houseplant Care Guide explains light, water, humidity and soil once, then gives twelve common plants, from monstera and pothos to a ZZ plant, two illustrated pages each. When something goes wrong, the troubleshooting section has a yellow leaf chart and pages on pests, root rot and repotting. It's the only guide here that also comes as a 6 x 9 inch pocket-size file.
Reading on screen or printing
All of these can be read as a PDF on a tablet or computer, and nothing needs to be printed before you start. Print when you want to write in one, keep it on a shelf, or hand pages around a table. A full guide is 28 to 42 pages, so for the pages you'll reuse, like logs, trackers and worksheets, it's often easier to print just those pages again than the whole book. Print at actual size and single-sided if you plan to punch the pages for a binder.