The Dancing Dragon

Marcia Vaughan's The Dancing Dragon has simplistic text about how Chinese New Year is celebrated in Chinatown. But, what makes this book worthwhile is that the pages all unfold accordion style to reveal the illustration of a long dragon from the parade. Good one to read to a classroom of kids since you could have a child hold each page as it unfolds. Just wish the book was a little larger in size--at 9"x7.5", a couple more inches would make it much better for classroom use.Look for my reviews of a bunch of other CNY kids' books on my blog www(dot)myoverthinking(dot)com - look for the post dated January 25, 2012

I have read this book to my daughter's nursery school class (of 2 - 6 year olds) for the last two Chinese New Year's. It is an accordian style book so you need to practice holding/reading it but quite worthwhile. The children were all interested in watching the dragon unfold and there is a good rhythm to the words. Nice preparation especially if they will have a parade of their own later. It does not make any pretense of explaining Chinese New Year. You would need look at additional books for that or the (animal) horoscopes.

This book is terrific for children to get excited about Chinese New Year. The art is beautiful, and the entire book folds out to a giant scene of the Dragon Parade while you are reading. I had children come up and hold parts of the book as we folded it out and read about the parade.

The text and illustrations aren't exactly outstanding but as the story proceeds into a Chinese New Year parade, the pages of the book open into a longer and longer dragon. Kids are totally impressed! I've used this book in my kindergarten class for several years.

Love this book especially how the book accordion fold out to make a super long dragon at the end. Nice rhyming test that hold kids interest. use with 4 and 5 year olds and they loved it.

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A beautiful concertina book for pre-schoolers to introduce them to Chinese New Year

My preschoolers enjoyed how this book opens up, revealing a several page long dragon that is in the Chinese New Year parade. So far, it has held up to them opening and closing it again as they retell the story with a friend!

This is a beautiful book which I bought for my five year old granddaughter as she is learning about China at school.It folds up and opens out as you read it to make a red dragon.

This is a great book. Wonderful resource for Chinese new Year. Unusual format but brings the Chinese festival to life

great book children loved reading and looking at the dragonslovely illistrations and style of book great fun to look at