Lunar New Year: Kids | Anne Arundel County

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"It's time to celebrate Chinese New Year! Join Alex as she gets ready for the holiday and shares her family's traditions with her best friend, Ethan"--Page 4 of cover.

2) The animals of Chinese New Year: Zhong guo nong li xin nian dong wu sheng xiao : English and Chinese

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Lee, Jen Sookfong

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"In this festive, dual-language board book (English and Simplified Chinese), twelve animals race to see who will represent the Chinese zodiac."--

3) Baby loves lunar phases on Chinese New Year!

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Spiro, Ruth

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Baby loves science

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"While celebrating Chinese New Year, Baby discovers the science behind the lunar calendar and the phases of the moon"--

4) Baby's first Chinese New Year

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Baby's first holidays

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Introduces the holiday through simple text and such illustrations as paper lanterns, fortune cookies, the twelve animals that represent different years, and a dancing dragon.

5) Celebrating Chinese New Year

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Heinrichs, Ann

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Celebrating holidays)

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"The Chinese New Year is a time to celebrate renewal and fresh beginnings. In America, this holiday has become an important and exciting cultural tradition. Lively illustrations and informative text teach readers about the history and pastimes associated with the Chinese New Year, as well as what they can do to commemorate the day. Additional features to aid comprehension include activities and poetry, informative sidebars, a table of contents, a...

6) Chinese children's favorite stories: fables, myths and fairy tales

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Yip, Mingmei

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Favorite children's stories

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Chinese children's favorite stories contains a superb selection from the rich repertoire of Chinese folklore and legend. Discover many delightful animal characters such as the famous Monkey King, as well as Chang-E, the Moon Goddess, and Guan Yin, the Goddess of Compassion. Classic themes of honesty, kindness, perseverance and common sense sparkle in these stories, beautifully retold in words and watercolors by artist and storyteller Mingmei Yip.

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"Chinese New Year is a time for new beginnings. Some people clean their homes from top to bottom or share meals with friends. Others pray, light fireworks, or give each other gifts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways"--

8) Chinese New Year

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Koestler-Grack, Rachel A

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Blastoff! readers. Level 2

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You could say the best is saved for last when it comes to Chinese New Year. The Lantern Festival stands as the holiday's grand finale. Dragon and lion puppets dance by day. At night, glowing lanterns float on water and across sky.

9) Chinese New Year

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Ponto, Joanna

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Story of our holidays

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"Chinese New Year has been celebrated for thousands of years in China. Now it is celebrated all around the world. It does not always come on the same date each year, but it is always in January or February. Readers of this volume will learn the meaning behind the holiday as well as the costumes, decorations, food, and other customs, such as the dragon parade, associated with it. This simple yet engaging book also provides instructions on how to make...

10) Chinese New Year colors

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Lo, Rich

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This vibrant, simple, and highly graphic bilingual book is the perfect introduction to Chinese and English words for colors as it honors one of the biggest holidays around the world.

11) Curious George dragon dance

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Curious George

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George, Marco, and their new friend Lily get to dance in the dragon costume during the Chinese New Year parade.

12) Goldy Luck and the three pandas

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Dreamscape children's videos

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A careless Goldy Luck wreaks havoc on the home of a family of panda bears. She eats up the littlest panda's rice porridge, breaks his rocking chair, and rumples all the blankets on his futon. When Goldy takes responsibility for her actions, she makes a new friend (and a whole plate of turnip cakes!) just in time for Chinese New Year.

13) Gordon & Li Li celebrate Chinese New Year

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McSween, Michele Wong

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"Gordon and Li Li are cousins. Li Li is from Beijing, China and speaks Mandarin. Gordon lives in Brooklyn, New York and speaks English. They are so excited to celebrate Chinese New Year together! Children and caregivers can learn about the preparation, the good luck foods, and special greetings that ensure a happy and prosperous New Year while learning words in English and Mandarin. Each word features the English and pinyin spelling along with the...

14) Grandma and the rooster

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Wang, Yimei

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"It's Chinese New Year and Grandma has a special present for her family: a rooster to make into delicious soup! But when her granddaughter, Xiaoyue, meets the rooster, she begs to keep him as a pet. Together, Grandma and Xiaoyue take the rooster on a journey through the city to ring in the New Year." --

15) How to catch a dragon

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Wallace, Adam

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How to catch-- volume 9

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A real, wily dragon winds through streets in China, eluding the traps set by a group of children during the Chinese New Year celebration.

16) Maisy's Chinese New Year

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Cousins, Lucy

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Maisy

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Spending Chinese New Year with her friend Tiger, Maisy learns about traditional symbols, shares a delicious cultural feast and exchanges lucky red hongbao envelopes before listening to a story about the holiday and staying up late to watch a fireworks display.

17) Mindy Kim and the Lunar New Year parade

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Lee, Lyla

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Mindy Kim volume 2

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Mindy is excited to go to the Lunar New Year parade in her new town with her father and her friend Sally.

18) The New Year Dragon Dilemma: The New Year Dragon Dilemma

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Roy, Ron

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A to Z mysteries. Super editions volume 5

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Z was just the beginning! With A to Z Mysteries® Super Editions, chapter book readers keep on collecting clues and solving mysteries with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. Now with over 8 million copies in print, this classic kid-favorite series is back with a bright new look!

Fireworks and dragons and . . . a missing girl? Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside Asia. They plan to...

19) Pedro and the dragon

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Pedro attends a colorful parade with his friend Katie Woo and her family to celebrate Chinese New Year, but when Katie goes missing Pedro is ready to come to the rescue.

20) Peppa Pig: Peppa's Chinese New Year

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Peppa and her friends celebrate Chinese New Year by making cards, dressing in red, and performing a dragon dance.