Dragon Boat Festival

by Lacey Benard, Lulu Cheng (Illustrator)

Introduce your bitty babes to the shapes and their given names and characteristics in two languages, while celebrating Chinese culture! Learn about shapes while celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival! Dragon Boat Festival is a cultural summer event that both children and adults look forward to, especially for the dragon boat races. Our book, Dragon Boat Festival , shows children the various traditions that take place while preparing for and celebrating the festival with their family in both English and Chinese. Children and adults alike will be delighted to uncover the shapes found in various elements of the dragon boat festival commonly seen items as they turn each page. The book is full of eye-catching and simple pictures that improve observation skills, build vocabulary, and encourage reading. Our Dragon Boat Festival book squeezes in lots of extra learning opportunities and skills, such as learning new facts about Dragon Boat Festival, traditions and customs that take place when celebrating, as well as learning about shapes and their characteristics in both English and Chinese. Parents will adore this eye-catching bilingual Chinese-English read due to its effortless integration of Chinese culture and traditions paired with topic of a very kid-friendly festival, Dragon Boat Festival. The simple and cute artwork is engaging for all, making learning about shapes and reading so much fun!

Genres: China

22 pages, Board Book

Published April 4, 2023

Reviews

[Jon Nakapalau · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is really a nice series of BB! In this book shapes are first defined (triangle) and then the shape is pointed out in the real world (bundles of 9 zongzi get thrown into the river). I think this is a fantastic way to go from the abstract to the particular; which is very helpful if you are a small child trying to learn two languages!

[Calista · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book about shapes and the Dragon Boat Festival. It's interesting. As a Western thinker, A pictograph language seems like it would have easy characters for shapes, you could almost make them. But it's not so simple. It takes, most time, three complex characters for Square or Triangle or Oval. I'm surprised on how complex it is.

I also get frustrated. They give a line of text in Pin yin and the characters and then the English line. I wish sometimes they would translate each character so we could see what's going on. I don't understand how it's working in Chinese. The character, no surprise, don't translate word for word or character for word. I like the character to heart. They also use moxa in this book.

This is a book, I simply need to study more. I'm lamenting the difficulty of this.

[Andrés · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first 4 pages of lines, sides, and corners felt disjointed from the rest of the book about shapes, which I quite enjoyed. I learned about Chinese traditions and language.