chinese new year

Simple text and colorful lift-the-flap and pop-up illustrations introduce early readers to the traditional ways to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell a story about all the preparations for celebrating a Chinese New Year.

Chinese brush painting and calligraphy illustrate the traditions, legends, food, and celebrations of Chinese New Year.

Things are heating up for the sixth-graders' cooking business when they get their biggest job yet while Peichi is busy preparing for her family's Chinese New Year celebration and all the rest of the girls come down with the flu. Includes recipes for brownies, chicken parmigiana, and fortune cookies.

An African American girl takes her grandmother to watch the Chinese New Year's parade where her father is a member of the dragon dance troupe.

Frightened into sleeplessness by the noisy celebration of the Chinese New Year, a young girl takes comfort in her grandmother's soothing story of a dragon, a mother's sorrow,and Buddha.

Describes how to make a Chinese New Year dragon as well as the bright colors and movement of the dance.

Nick, a Chinese-American boy, celebrates the Chinese New Year with his family by cleaning house, sharing gifts, and going to a parade.

Explains how Chinese New Year is celebrated, covering the costumes, foods, parades, and other aspects, and describes the beliefs that inspired these traditions.

Introduces the traditions of the lunar New Year as the holiday is celebrated by people of Chinese origin and provides instructions for creating a variety of holiday-themed crafts, including a diorama, lucky money envelopes, and a lantern.