Lunar New Year
Author: Hannah Eliot
Illustrator: Alina Chau
Series: Celebrate the World
Original language: English
Published: July 2019
Publishers: Simon & Schuster
EAN: 9781534433038
Price: € 10.99 (Board Book)
Age: 4 years and up
For Chinese New Year we read Lunar New Year with the mini monsters, another lovely cardboard book by Hannah Eliot. All New Year's rituals from China are included and these often resemble those of the other world festivals, such as the Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish and Western rituals. The Chinese Zodiac is typical for China, every year it is a different animal's turn.
Praying or offering to gods, ghosts or ancesters, cleaning and decorating the house, seeing your family, all together eating nice food, giving and receiving presents and setting off fireworks, those are the communalities that we all have in this world. That is why it is good to introduce young children to it. We are all together on this little planet called Earth!
Illustrator Alina Chau has built a beautiful bridge from the old traditions to the young Chinese families in her drawings. They are traditional and hip at the same time. Our youngest mini-monsters also love this book from the series! Good, we've seen various other fun titles on Alina Chau's website!
3 sparkly shining stars for Lunar New Year, from snazzie's youngest listeners and their readers!