chinese new year

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.

Examines the customs, traditions, foods, and lore associated with the celebration of Chinese New Year.

Simple text and photographs describe and illustrate Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated.

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.

One Chinese New Year, her mother sends Goldy Luck to the pandas next door with a plate of turnip cakes, but the pandas are out and disaster follows. Includes a recipe for turnip cakes and an explanation of Chinese New Year.