The Taipei County government released Tuesday a set of supplementary teaching material for elementary school students to help them learn modern Chinese literature in a fun way. To raise the children's interests in reading, the new reading material - which are geared towards students in the third to sixth grades - contain poems, fairy tales, short stories and articles, county Education Bureau officials said. Some of the material were recommended by school children, who shared with the education bureau the kind of things they enjoy reading. The articles feature various topics, including a modern life the children are familiar with, a fantasy kung fu world created by Chin Yung, a famous Chinese kun fu novel writer, and a world of celebrities including Taiwanese pitcher for the Yankees Chien-Ming Wang and popular pop singer Jay Chou, the officials said. The new teaching material, which took over 20 scholars and teachers a year to compile, contain 96 articles of contemporary writers, which are packed in four volumes of books, according to the county government. County Magistrate Chou Hsi-wei said he hopes students can learn in an easy and amusing way with the new Chinese-language literature supplementary material. The material will be distributed to each elementary school in the county. 