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Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns
Contributor(s): Otto, Carolyn (Author)
ISBN: 1426323735     ISBN-13: 9781426323737
Publisher: National Geographic Kids
OUR PRICE:   $17.01  
Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats
Published: December 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Holidays & Celebrations - Other, Nonreligious
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - Asia
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American
Dewey: 394.268
Lexile Measure: 740
Series: Holidays Around the World
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.5" W x 10.1" (0.7 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - Chinese
- Holiday - Chinese New Year
- Cultural Region - Chinese
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 122314
Reading Level: 6.0   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

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