Celebrate Chinese New Year by Carolyn Otto-- a good book to read to children for Lunar New Year. By National Geographic. Great photos, of course.

Here is a great book to read to children for Chinese New Year. It includes great photography by National Geographic staff and includes photos from celebrations all around the world. What I liked is that it has brief phrases you can read to the really young kids and more in-depth explanations you can read to the older children. You can find lots more book suggestions here.

A book to read to kids at Chinese New Year

Book to read to kids for Chinese New Year -- Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas

This is a great book that would be great to read to a group of kids for Chinese New Year. The artwork is fun and whimsical,and the echoes of of The Three Bears are nicely done. Click this link for a great list of books about Chinese New Year.

Printable Year of the Monkey Greeting Card--Chinese New Year

This graphic is blank at the top for a reason: it's a template for a Year of the Monkey greeting card. You can either print it out the way it is--hand-colored--or, the site has templates for making the monkey and also the template to color. A quick, easy craft to do with kids for Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year Books for Kids

Chinese New Year is coming up. If you need some books to read--especially for school classes and the like, take a look at this list.Chinese New Year Books for Kids  It has books for all ages--from toddler level on up to 5th & 6th graders. My favorites are Goldyluck -- a takeoff on the three bears story, and Demi's book of Chinese animal fables

Best Books and Films for Families with Children from China

Books, Panda Items & Other Favorites

Permit me to stray a little off-topic here (although Freegal does have a pretty wide selection of Chinese traditional music as well as pop music--C-Pop they call it.)

My husband & I decided to adopt a girl from China 14 years ago, and since then I've read everything I could about China--histories, novels, memoirs. This site lists the best things I've found, all the way from picture books for the little ones to steampunk novels for teens. I have quite a few things geared towards moms & dads, too.

So, if you know anyone with children from China, these books & DVD's (I've thrown in a few cute panda items & other things, too) would make great gift ideas.