The Chinese Near Year stars on January 23rd, which is next week! We have this lovely picture book, New Clothes for New Year's Day, all about a new start for New Years, starting with new clothes. Here is the description of the book from the Usborne website:
The New Year is the start of everything new...Follow a young Korean girl as she dresses and prepares for celebrating the Lunar New Year.*
A New Year, a new day, a new morning.
New clothes.
We start the year with new things.
New things, for the year-older me.
And speaking of new clothes, don't forget about our new, fun Fashion Dolls... we have one from China!
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Or, how about an Usborne First Reading selection retelling the story of the Monkey King?
Meet Monkey - king of the monkeys and the cleverest, naughtiest animal in China. He won't obey anyone, not even the Emperor of Heaven. But when Monkey steals a crop of magic peaches, he finally goes too far …
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2012 is the Year of the Dragon, so... we definitely have you covered there!
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| Dragons Lift-the-Flap |
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| Stories of Dragons |
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| That's Not My Dragon |
Happy Chinese New Year!
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