Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns by Carolyn Otto (2009, Hardcover)

Key Details
Author:	Carolyn Otto
Language:	English
Publisher:	Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
Series:	HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	1426303815
ISBN-13:	9781426303814

Size
Length:	32 pages
Height:	10.3 in
Width:	8.8 in
Thickness:	0.5 in
Weight:	13.8 oz

Publisher's Note
Children have never had so many reasons to learn how Chinese people everywhere ring in the new and ring out the old. As China takes its new place on the global stage, understanding Chinese culture and values becomes ever more essential to our next generation.

For two joyous weeks red is all around. The color represents luck and happiness. Children receive money wrapped in red paper, and friends and loved ones exchange poems written on red paper. The Chinese New Year is also an opportunity to remember ancestors, and to wish peace and happiness to friends and family. The holiday ends with the Festival of Lanterns, as many large communities stage the famous Dragon Dance. Fireworks, parades, lanterns, presents, and feasts: these are some of the joys experienced by all who observe Chinese New Year.

Celebrate Chinese New Year is the latest, timely addition to National Geographic’s popular Holidays Around the World series. With 25 colorful images and a simple, educational text, the book is a lively invitation to revel in this child-friendly, national and international holiday. Carolyn Otto brings the historical and cultural aspects of the Chinese New Year into focus, and young readers experience the full flavor of an event celebrated by over a billion people in China, and countless others worldwide.

Introduces children to a varied selection of religious and cultural holidays through fascinating facts, prayers, songs, recipes, color photos, and more, and includes backmatter for parents and teachers.