How to Catch a Dragon

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I only know for sure because I asked someone but a simple heading or footnote stating that it is a 'Mandarin translation' would have been helpful.

Edward Eaves is an up-and-coming young illustrator with a growing reputation and several successful children's books under his belt. It's got a lovely nod to Dragons Love Tacos as well, which is one of the greatest children's books ever written so that's nice. Sure there are some different nationalities, but when you walk down a street in China, even in Hong Kong, it really is very Chinese, so to see the wide-variety of nationalities; it just seemed off for the story. Set during the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival, a boy and his friends try to catch a Dragon for Good luck, amidst the celebration.Are we to believe that there are a bunch of white, black, and Latinx kids living in a traditional country village in China that appears to have a 19th-century level of technology?

Coming up with elaborate ways to capture something is an idea that all kids will think about and be interested in. Written in rhyming text with adorable digitally painted artwork, a group of young children are chasing down a dragon. This is a great book, the drawings are amazing and we are thrown into the imagination of a little boy!The kids can join in with parts once it’s been read before and can add lots of extra ideas using the illustrations! Another excellent Albie book - good fun to read, large format pages and very well illustrated to capture a small child's imagination. The story is set in China during the Chinese New Year and would make a fun fictional read while studying the holiday. I don't think a kid is really going to mind that either, but I will admit that I do think it takes a little bit away from the overall song-feel of the tale, which I believe was the purpose of rhyming in the first place.

In addition, the artwork is very colorful, and works well with the Chinese culture that the story is representing.Despite a series of cleverly planned traps, the children never manage to catch the dragon they were hunting.

Set in China during the Spring Festival, otherwise known as Chinese New Year, the wily dragon will have to avoid trap after trap as the kids run through paper lanterns, red envelopes, fireworks, and more! With bonus educational content and Mandarin translations in the back to enhance your reading experience, How to Catch a Dragon is the perfect dragon book for kids ages 3-8! I really enjoyed the educational aspect of the Chinese customs and the highlighted words in English and the corresponding Chinese characters on select items throughout the story. When Albie visits the library to find a book about dragons, he certainly doesn’t expect to meet a real knight and his horse!Each page has a word in English that is highlighted, and in the illsutration on the page, the corresponding Chinese character is drawn. The first review will be my (not-so-tiny) munchkin's perspective and then I will chime in with my 2 cents. He spends his non-writing time thinking about writing and going to as many live music shows as he can.