Life in China is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.1.9 and Literacy.L.1.1. Large color photographs of holidays such as Chinese New Year, cooking commodities, and eating utensils such as rice and chopsticks, and even symbolic colors and objects such as red lanterns—along with descriptive text—demonstrate the vivid, exotic, and unique characteristic of China. This book should be paired with “I''m from China" (9781448888078) from the Rosen Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.