A festive account of one family’s Chinese New Year celebration. A little girl describes the preparations—everything from cleaning and shopping to food preparation and gifts—leading up to a magical Lunar New Year. In one dreamy sequence, the girl imagines herself in Ancient China, riding on a dragon, and watching the celebration unfold.
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From Publishers Weekly
While recalling her own most "positively magical" Lunar New Year, a girl describes the customs and rituals surrounding the celebration. Liu's artwork is appropriately festive, and the illustrations of the family's holiday are mouthwatering. Ages 7-10.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Gr. 3-5. A little girl tells the story of her family's Chinese New Year celebration. Although the cover illustration shows the girl riding a dragon and the first page promises magic, the majority of this book deals with the holiday as a family event --from cleaning and shopping to food preparation and gifts. Street parades and fireworks are only incidental; this story takes place in a middle-class kitchen, living room, and dining room. The girl cleans the house in her jeans, but she wears traditional clothing (with red sneakers) for the family party. The magical happening is a tiny, dreamy moment when the girl feels she's back in ancient China, watching the celebration from a dragon's back. The pictures show a world in which tradition intersects a nontraditional world: the New Year's fireworks explode against an urban skyscape. Mary Harris Veeder
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
good general information for kids,
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This review is from: Chinese New Year's Dragon (Paperback)
This book contained very good general information for kids about Chinese New Year; however, it was written in a very choppy style and the ideas also did not flow from one to the next. Within the general information about the young girl's preparation and celebration was a brief one to two page story about flying on a dragon and seeing Chinese New Year in ancient times. This story was too short and really didn't say anything about how the celebrations might have differed; however, connecting current celebrations to ancient times was a nice idea. ...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An EXCELLENT Book!,
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This review is from: Chinese New Year's Dragon (Paperback)
This is Chinese New Year as I know it. This book is 15 years old, so I was prepared to find it dated in both art and flow. Instead I found myself utterly drawn in, instantly comfortable with the way the people and their home and environments were rendered. Clothing and hair styles, home furnishings, food drawings--everything is spot on, plus, there's this education flavor to the drawings that makes me nostalgic for . . . my old Saturday morning Chinese school books? The text works great for me, too. The device of sharing so much information about usual Chinese New Year traditions via the opener "Just like any other year . . ." on every page, while we wait to hear what was different about THIS year, really drew me in.
The moment of dragon-riding fantasy is breathtaking. So why am I giving this only 4 stars instead of 5? Well, it's crazy, but as much as I love this book and am getting it for myself, I'm still not sure this would be the first Chinese New Year book I'd give my FRIENDS' kids, these days, and that's my test for what gets 5 stars. I'm almost suspicious this book is TOO perfect for me, and that my friends' kids (the ones being born now) wouldn't relate the same way. I could be wrong. I'm going to show it around and see what others think. I could just be in denial my friends and I have become our parents. This book is wonderful.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
But my 6 y.o. daughter likes it,
By Lady "lady-in-nj" (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chinese New Year's Dragon (Paperback)
She took it to bed to read to herself the other night. If you were doing Ch. New Year with a KG - 5th class, you could use the book, but only read selected paragraphs All the important bits of the celebration are there.
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Something special always happens for Chinese people at the Lunar New Year. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Year, Uncle Min New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Something special always happens for Chinese people at the Lunar New Year. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Year, Uncle Min New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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