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Children's Books for Chinese New Year Month Date
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The runaway rice cake
by Ying Chang Compestine
After chasing the special rice cake, Nian Gao, that their mother has made to celebrate the Chinese New Year, three poor brothers share it with an elderly woman and have their generosity richly rewarded.
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Sam and the lucky money
by Karen Chinn
Sam must decide how to spend the lucky money he's received for Chinese New Year.
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The day the dragon danced
by Kay Haugaard
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.
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D is for dragon dance
by Ying Chang Compestine
Introduces the wondrous traditions of a Chinese New Year through an illustrated and alphabetized review of such components as firecrackers, acrobats, and red envelopes.
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A gift
by Yong Chen
Amy receives a gift for the Chinese New Year from her aunt and uncles who live far away in China, a gift that expresses their love and their wish to keep the family together.
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My first Chinese New Year
by Karen Katz
Preschoolers can follow one little girl as she learns how to welcome the coming year and experience all the festivities surrounding it, in a warm and lively introduction to a special holiday.
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When the circus came to town
by Laurence Yep
Drawn from actual events from early twentieth-century Montana, a heartwarming story follows Ursula, who, due to the scars on her face, refuses to leave the house until she summons the courage, with the help of Chinese cook Ah Sam, to venture outside, and learns that inner beauty is much more important than outward appearance.
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The star maker
by Laurence Yep
With the help of his Uncle Chester, Artie, a Chinese-American boy who feels like the outsider of the family, tries hard to fulfill a promise to have firecrackers for everyone on the Chinese New Year in 1954.
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The runaway wok : a Chinese New Year tale
by Ying Chang Compestine
When a young boy from a poor Chinese family brings home a mysterious old wok instead of the food his parents instructed him to buy, the wok surprises the hungry family by rolling out of the house and returning full of delicious food given to them by a rich neighbor.
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