Children's Fiction Asian American
PoPo's Lucky Chinese New Year
- Publisher
- Sleeping Bear Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2016
- Category
- Asian American, Multigenerational
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 9
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 4
- Recommended Reading age
- 7 to 8
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781585369782
- Publish Date
- Dec 2016
- List Price
- $25.99
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Description
Making sure the new year is lucky is serious business. Thankfully PoPo has come all the way from China to America to help!
Join one little Chinese-American girl (and her baby brother) as her grandmother teaches her all the do's and don'ts of celebrating the Chinese New Year. From making sure the windows are super clean (do!) to not using the unlucky number four (don't!), there is a lot to be done in preparation for the celebration. It's "hard work" but worth it in the end with the delicious food, fun parades and fireworks, and gifts of lai see (lucky red envelopes with money inside) from relatives!
Includes an activity for how to make a Chinese pellet drum.
About the authors
Dr. Virginia Loh-Hagan was born in the luckiest of all years, the Year of the Dragon. She’s an author, university professor, curriculum designer, and former elementary school teacher. She was inspired to write this story after doing author visits. Her young audiences wanted to know more about Chinese New Year! She lives in San Diego with one well-trained husband and two very naughty dogs.
Virginia Loh-Hagan's profile page
Renné Benoit is living her childhood dream of being an artist. Trained in graphic design, she is the award-winning illustrator of more than 15 books for children. Her awards include the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award for Children's Literature for Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion; the OLA Silver Birch Express Award for The Secret of the Village Fool; and the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize for both Fraser Bear and Goodbye to Griffith Street. The latter was also nominated for the Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Award. Big City Bees was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration, and A Year of Borrowed Men was a finalist for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, among others. Renné lives in St. Thomas, Ontario.
