Children's Story Time

Please join us for our special Lunar New Year Children's Story Time in English and Mandarin

This very special Story Time is: Saturday, February 13th at 1:00 pm

Featured Book:

Happy, Happy Chinese New Year!

Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts'ai! Celebrate the season for new beginnings with lion dances, gifts, firecrackers, food and more. Demi's straightforward text and playful artwork are a great introduction to the customs, traditions, food, and lore associated with the celebration of Chinese New Year.

(j)QK83.2 .L8 D395 1997

Happy, Happy Chinese New Year! Demi. New York: Crown Publishers, c1997.

Rice Without Rain. Ho, Minfong. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1990.
Summary: After social rebels convince a rice farmer in northern Thailand to resist the land rent, his seventeen-year-old daughter Jinda finds herself caught up in the student uprising in Bangkok.
(j)SB191 .R5 H65 1990

First Apple. Russell, Ching Yeung. Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, c1994.
Summary: A young girl living in a Chinese village in the 1940s tries to find a way to buy an apple, the fruit of rich people, to share with her grandmother.
(j)SB363 .R912 1994

Under the Cherry Blossom Tree: an Old Japanese Tale. Say, Allen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997, c1974.
Summary: A cherry tree growing from the top of the wicked landlord's head is the beginning of his misfortunes and a better life for the poor villagers.
(j)SB366 .Sa99 1974

In the Park. Lee, Huy Voun. New York: Henry Holt, c1998.
Summary: On the first day of spring, a mother and her son go to the park where they draw Chinese characters that represent words relating to the season.
(j)SB454 .C17sp L512 1998

The Empty Pot. Demi. New York: Henry Holt, c1990.
Summary: When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
(j)SB117 .D395 1990

The Monkey and the Crab. Kani, Saru. Union City, Calif.: Heian International ; c1985.
Summary: Mr. Monkey is punished for eating all the persimmon fruit from Mrs. Crab's tree.
(j)SB379 .P4 K132 1985

The Very Hungry Caterpillar = Fei chang chi o ti mao mao chung. Carle, Eric. London: Mantra, 1996, c1992.
Summary: Story follows the progress of a hungry little catepillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
(j)QL541 .C192c 1996

A Journey to Paradise. Siberell, Anne. New York: Henry Holt, c1990.
Summary: When a magical elephant agrees to take Guba the gardener to Paradise, Guba and his friends discover where Paradise really is.
(j)SB466 .I4 .Si11 1990

Dear Juno. Pak, Soyung. New York: Viking, 1999.
Summary: Juno, a Korean American boy, sends his grandmother in Seoul a leaf from a tree in his family's garden, after she sends him a flower from her persimmon garden.
(j)SB406 .P17 1999

Goldfish and Chrysanthemums. Cheng, Andrea. Publication: New York: Lee & Low Books, c2003.
Summary: A Chinese American girl puts her goldfish into a fish pond that she creates and borders with chrysanthemums in order to remind her grandmother of the fish pond she had back in China.
(j)SB423 .C421 2003

Peach Heaven. Choi, Yangsook. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2005.
Summary: The white peaches grown in Puchon are the best in all South Korea, and a rare treat for a little girl who lives in the town, who dreams of a peach orchard where she can eat as much of the delicious but expensive fruit as she wishes. After weeks of heavy downpours, the sky begins to rain peaches and the girl finds herself in peach heaven, until she remembers the farmers who have lost their harvest and decides she must help them. The story is a recollection from the author's early childhood.
(j)SB371 .C452 2004