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A Gift
by
Yong Chen
A surprise for Chinese New Year. A gift has come for Amy, all the way from China. The package has arrived just in time for Chinese New Year, the most important holiday in the Chinese culture. It's a tradition to spend time with friends and family. Since Amy's aunt and uncles live in China and are unable to make a new-year visit, they have sent their niece a special gift th...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by Boyds Mills Press
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"A gift" is a brief story about a Chinese woman and her daughter and how they celebrate the Chinese new year living in America. The book explains that Chinese families are often very close with their distant families, sending them letters, calling them on the phone, and also sending gifts like what was seen in this story. The young child in this book receives a gift of a dragon necklace carved from stone from her uncle in China. It explains that the dragon is the symbol of China and the stone it...more
Centering on Amy, the book takes place during Chinese New Year, where her family feels the sadness that comes from being away from their hometown in China. But, the highlight of her Chinese New Years comes when she receives a package, containing a gift from her uncles all the way in China. It is a beautiful necklace with a carved Jade dragon. Her aunts and uncles says that he found the stone while working and the carver saw a dragon inside the stone and brought it out in his carving. While Amy m...more
You know, this book doesn’t educate much about Chinese New Year except a couple things I already knew: the dragon is the symbol of China and red is the color of luck.
The illustrations are lovely and help tell the story. The story is very sweet, although there’s not that much to it. Amy’s mother misses her two brothers and her sister who live in far off China. A letter and a gift arrive from her siblings for her daughter Amy. It’s a dragon necklace from her uncles and her aunt. The reader see how...more
The illustrations are lovely and help tell the story. The story is very sweet, although there’s not that much to it. Amy’s mother misses her two brothers and her sister who live in far off China. A letter and a gift arrive from her siblings for her daughter Amy. It’s a dragon necklace from her uncles and her aunt. The reader see how...more
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Amy's mother feels especially homesick for her family in China when the New Year comes. When a special package comes from the family, Amy and her mother find a beautiful surprise. A wonderful story about the ties that bind a family together, no matter how far away they are. We used this in our preschool unit on Chinese New Year, but it could also be used for a unit on family or love, or for just plain-old story time. Preschool Unit: Chinese New Year (Friends in Many Lands)
Amy receives a gift for the Chinese New Year from her aunt and uncles who live far away in China.
Includes notes about Chinese New Year and the Chinese dragon.
Genre:Picture books for children; Realistic fiction.
Subjects
Aunts -- Juvenile fiction
Uncles -- Juvenile fiction
Chinese Americans -- Juvenile fiction
Chinese New Year -- Juvenile fiction.
China -- Juvenile fiction
Chinese New Year
Chinese Dragon
Beautiful illustrations and a beautiful story about the importance the Chinese New Year is for expatriates. Nostalgia is often a feeling many who have left their home experience. Any little piece of that life that can be obtained makes the sorrow a little less. Chen portrays this story through the eyes of a little girl and the sadness she sees in her mom.
This book is beautiful. A short, simple story about a Chinese American family, and their communication with their family back in China. The illustrations add so much to the story. If you look carefully, you can see Chinese New Year traditions throughout the American house.
Beautiful story about a girl and her mother opening a package from family back in China. Includes a necklace and a letter that tells the story of how the necklace came to be.
Lovely story. Chinese culture showing the importance of the Chinese New Year of the Dragon, and how a family stays connected via long distance.
Beautiful story of the Chinese New Year with wonderful illustrations.
Good story to use for Chinese New Year program.
save for Chinese new Year Program
Chinese New Year story
A very sweet story about the importance of staying connected to family even when they live far far away. Lovely watercolor illustrations. This year is my year (the tiger); I sent this book to my friends with kids as a gift for Chinese New Year.
Feb 05, 2012
Mudi1998
marked it as to-read
Jan 08, 2011
Helen
marked it as to-read
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