Celebra el Año Nuevo Chino con la Familia Fong

by F. Isabel Campoy, Alma Flor Ada, Mima Castro (Illustrator)

A Chinese-American family invites their good friends the Sánchez, a Latino family, to celebrate with them the Chinese New Year. Nico, one of the Latino kids takes the reader through the magnificence of the celebration as he takes pictures of everything he finds interesting not without getting in trouble. Contains an informative section about the Chinese New Year.

30 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

F. ISABEL CAMPOY is the author of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized in the area of literacy and home school interaction, topics on which she lecturers nationally. An internationally recognized scholar devoted to the study of language acquisition, a field in which she started publishing in l973 after obtaining her degree in English Philology from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain; and post graduate work in Reading University in England, and UCLA in the United States.

Her many accolades include ALA Notables, the San Francisco Library Award, the Reading the World Award from the University of San Francisco, the NABE Ramón Santiago Award, the International Latino Children’s Book Award, and nine Junior Library Guild selections. She is a member of the North American Academy of Spanish Language.

Reviews

[Cya]

Chinese New Year book has facts in the back. Good for holiday lesson and multi-cultural traditions.Can use in class during New Years to show how different people celebrate.

[Corinna Motola · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s cute and gives good information, but the actual story part was kind of lacking in plot.