Lunar New Year | McKinney Public Libraries

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Celebrate the Lunar New Year on Sesame Street with Ji-Young, Lily, and Elmo! Elmo learns about different Lunar New Year celebrations from his friends on Sesame Street. Ji-Young tells Elmo about Soellal, which is celebrated in Korea. And Lily the tiger shares traditions from her Chinese Lunar New Year festivities. This colorful board book is filled with good fortune and fun for everyone! It makes a great Lunar New Year gift for young boys and girls....

2) Lunar New Year

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Yim, Natasha

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Holiday history)

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"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the history of Lunar New Year, including when, where, and who first celebrated it, its meaning, the traditions associated with it, including hanging red lanterns, having reunion dinners, and honoring ancestors, and how it is celebrated in different parts of China and the world today"--Provided by publisher.

3) Lunar New Year love story

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Yang, Gene Luen

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Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance...

4) The Animals of Chinese New Year

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Lee, Jen Sookfong

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Drawing on the myth of the Chinese zodiac, The Animals of Chinese New Year follows twelve animals as they speed across a river, competing to represent the imminent new year in a race held by the Jade Emperor, the most powerful Chinese god. Each animal competes in its own unique way. The ox works hard, the tiger is brave, the dog smiles kindly, but who will win? Bright photographs of babies demonstrating the same traits as the animals in the text,...

5) Tomorrow is New Year's Day: Seollal, a Korean celebration of the Lunar New Year

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Kim, Aram

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Publisher Annotation: Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year, is Mina’s favorite day of the year. Mina can't wait to share the customs of Seollal with all of her friends at school. She will show her classmates her colorful hanbok, demonstrate how to do sebae, and then everyone will make tasty tteokguk in the cooking room. Yum! Her little brother may even join in on the fun… if he can find a way out of his bad mood. In this joyful book about sharing...

6) Chelsea's Chinese New Year

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Enjoy learning all about Chinese New Year, as Chelsea celebrates with her family!

7) A sweet New Year for Ren

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Sterling, Michelle

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Ren has always been too little to help make her favorite pineapple cakes for the Lunar New Year, but when her one-of-a-kind brother Charlie arrives for the festivities, with his help, she finally gets her chance. Includes recipe for pineapple cakes.

8) Long-long's new year: story about the Chinese spring festival, a

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Gower, Catherine

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Long-Long helps his grandfather sell his cabbages to buy what they need for Spring Festival.

9) Grace's Chinese New Year

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Huang, Jackie

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Step into reading. Step 2 book

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"Grace and her family get ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year"--

10) Daughters of the new year: a novel

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Tran, E. M

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Book, Large Type

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In New Orleans, three daughters of a former beauty queen and Vietnamese refugee obsessed with zodiac signs are trying to go about their modern lives, but begin to encounter strange glimpses of long-buried secrets from their ancestors. What does the future hold for those born in the years of the Dragon, Tiger, and Goat? In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her...

11) Chinese New Year

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Dittmer, Lori

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Seedlings)

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"A kindergarten-level introduction to the Chinese New Year, covering the holiday's history, popular traditions, and such defining symbols as the color red and dragons"--

12) New clothes for New Year's day

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Bae, Hyun-Joo

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A young Korean girl describes the new clothes that she will be wearing to celebrate the new year.

13) Peppa's Chinese New Year

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Archer, Mandy

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

14) 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 Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.

15) Grumpy New Year

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Moore, Katrina

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Daisy, a young Chinese American girl, is excited to be celebrating the Lunar New Year with her Yeh-Yeh in China, but at first she is too grumpy from lack of sleep to enjoy the activities he has planned. Includes recipes for fried Jiao Zi (dumplings) and Eight Treasure Rice.

16) Chloe's Lunar New Year

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LaMotte, Lily

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Publisher Annotation: It's almost Lunar New Year, and Chloe can’t wait to celebrate! But first, Chloe and her family must prepare for the new year. They buy new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate the red envelope, and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together to cook a fantastic feast, saving a plate for A-má, of course. Chloe enjoys the festive celebration and yummy food, but most of all, she loves spending time with...

17) The New Year dragon dilemma

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Roy, Ron

Series

A to Z mysteries. Super editions volume 5

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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying a visit to San Francisco when Holden, their college-age tour guide, is accused of abducting Miss Chinatown from the Chinese New Year parade and stealing her valuable crown.

18) Two New Years

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Ho, Richard

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A multicultural family celebrates the traditions of two New Years--the Jewish Rosh Hashanah in the autumn, and the Asian Lunar New Year several months later.

19) Chinese New Year

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Chinese New Year

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The Hairy Bikers Dave Myers and Si King take us to New Year's Eve in Beijing, following an extraordinary day in China's capital city. They experience life in the mega-city on this special day, from preparationsat the bell tower, which can only ever ring on the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, to a Beijing family, the Zhangs, who are getting ready for the biggest family get-together of the year. The whole city comes to a halt as everyone gathers...

20) Lunar New Year

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Eliot, Hannah

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Celebrate the world

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Learn all about the traditions of Lunar New Year-also known as Chinese New Year-with this fourth board book in the Celebrate the World series, which highlights special occasions and holidays across the globe. After the winter solstice each year, it's time for a celebration with many names: Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, and Lunar New Year! With beautiful artwork by Chinese illustrator Alina Chau, this festive board book teaches readers that Lunar...