The Stories of Tiantianis a series of readers matching Textbooks 1-4 ofEasy Steps to Chinese. For each of the four levels, there are five readers, each telling three stories, matching the three lessons in each unit ofEasy Steps to Chinese. The readers describe the adventures of a secondary school student called Tiantian.

The readers aim to create a motivating environment, in which students can revise, practice and consolidate the vocabulary, sentence structures and language points they have learned from the textbook.