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 enlarge | Authors: Nina Simonds, Leslie Swartz, Boston The Children's Museum
Creator: Meilo So
Publisher: Gulliver Books
Category: Book
List Price: $21.00
Buy New: $11.37
You Save: $9.63 (46%)
New (33) Used (17) from $9.70
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 22049
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0152019839
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.26
EAN: 9780152019839
ASIN: 0152019839
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Easy Multiculturism February 24, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Very pretty book for those of us visual learners. Concrete and abstract examples of Chinese culture, good for children of different ages.
A delightful book well illustrated December 18, 2005
I found this book on Amazon while writing my children's book. "Moonbeams" is a delightful children's book. Combining the legends, activities and recipes for each Chinese festival is a clever and useful idea that is carried out very well in this book.
A friend borrowed my copy a few months ago and it looks like the book's not coming back!
Beautiful! December 17, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is filled with inspirational stories, fantastic recipies, and nifty craft ideas - perfect for celbrating all chinese holidays - great to share with your child
Superbly illustrated children's book on Chinese Holidays December 10, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely fantastic in it's overall illustrative, watercolor depictions of bringing about the folktales and legends to life that have influenced the Chinese holidays I have come to know and celebrate. There are great craft activities on making dragon boats for the Dragon boat festival, fabulous recipes you can make to enjoy authentic Chinese cuisine, as well reading entertaining stories from which these legends originated from. I have bought this book mainly to gain some insight into the story behind the Spring Festival of the Kitchen God for my Oral Communications Speech, and it's provided me with a recipe along with illustrations which my friend has used for our Power Point presentation. I would recammend this book to anyone looking to explore the history of Chinese culture and cuisine because it has been valuable to me.
beautiful, delightful book November 19, 2003
49 out of 49 found this review helpful
... I was looking for Chinese folk tales. What a great surprise! I am totally envious of kids today who get books like these -- how I wish they had something like this when I was little so that I would have been more familiar with my own cultural background. The book is organized by following the Chinese traditions/festivals/holidays through the course of a year. Stories, recipes, activities are paired with each holiday to give you a full sense of what happens on each one of these special occasions. I recognized bits and pieces of the folklore from the stories that my mom and grandparents told me when I was growing up...so it really feels authentic (not watered down) yet still accessible. The watercolors/illustrations are beautiful to look at too. Highly recommended.
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