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DRAGON NEW YEAR, THE
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Written by
David Bouchard
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Illustrated by
Zhong-Yang Huang
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Hardcover: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-56145-210-1
Total Pages: 32
Size: 9-7/8 x 12-1/4
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Picture books, ages 6-10/Fiction
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David Bouchard is the author of many books, including the award-winning bestsellers The Elders Are Watching and If You're Not from the Prairie, as well as the internationally The
Great Race. Bouchard won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award in 1997. He lives in Canada.
You can visit David Bouchard's website at: www.davidbouchard.com
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Zhong-Yang Huang has built an impressive international career as
an artist, melding contemporary Western influences with traditional
Chinese painting. He has illustrated several other children's books,
including The Great Race, Buddha in the Garden, The Mermaid's Muse, and Dragon of Heaven: The Memoirs of the Last Empress of China, all also by David Bouchard. His striking paintings can
be found in private and corporate collections around the world.
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A CHINESE LEGEND
"This dragon is a sea dragon. It does not know fire!
This dragon’s home is muffled by the sea.
It knows nothing of loud sound!
Let us create for it a welcome it will not soon forget!"
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Accelerated Reader & Reading Counts Tests:
Reading Counts Test #: Q30965
Reading Counts Level: 4.1
AR Quiz#: 32259
AR Reading Level: 5.1
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THE ESSENCE OF ancient China is charmingly evoked for young readers by David Bouchard's tale of courage, kindness, love, and inspiration.
Every spring, the Chinese New Year is heralded by noise and sound: a clash of cymbals, the splash of colorful fireworks across the sky, shouts and whistles and bright lights. Yet how did these traditions begin? A young girl, frightened into sleeplessness by the celebrations outside her bedroom window, takes comfort in her grandmother's wise, soothing words as she tells a tale of the Dragon New Year.
Children will be fascinated by this mythic story, which weaves together a monstrous sea dragon, a mother's sorrow, and a powerful Buddha. Illustrator Zhong-Yang Huang's lavish paintings capture the imagery of the grandmother's words. Colorful, evocative, and haunting, they are a perfect accompaniment to this modern-day fable.
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Reviews
"It's the extra-large pictures that are most dramatic here.... Children will enjoy the reversal that the flaming pictures show: it's the fiery noisy festival that frightens the monster away and keeps the child safe at home." Booklist "Rich paintings translate the legendary spirit of the story into a realistic family setting."Childhood Education
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Awards
* Selected for inclusion in the 2000 Annual Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators
* 2000 Storytelling World award
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