Happy Year of the Rabbit!

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Happy New Year, everybody! Gung Hei Fat Choy! Xin Nian Kuai Le! The Tiger has roared its way out and made way for the Rabbit… Let us hope this new lunar year will indeed be tranquil for us all.

You can find reviews of The Year of the Rabbit (pictured left), the latest in Oliver Chin’s fun, lively series of Tales from the Chinese Zodiac here at Book Dads, and here at Xiaoning’s Blog, along with other book suggestions (We’ll be posting our own review soon.). The Children’s Book Review has lots of rabbity books to choose from; The Book Chook takes us on a magnificent kite-making adventure; and Grace Lin sends out her greetings with a gorgeous rabbit illustration, as well as links to craft activities (which include this e-card).

If you’ve written a post for Chinese New Year, do drop a link into the comments…

Paper Tigers from Kirkbymoorside, UK

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

PaperTigers paper tigers - Kirkbymoorside Cubs, UK

Happy New Year!

These are the PaperTigers’ paper tigers I made with my Cub pack last week, when we also talked about Chinese New Year. We read The Great Race by Dawn Casey, illustrated by Anne Wilson (Barefoot Books, 2006) and dipped into Demi‘s wonderful Happy New Year!/ Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts’ai! (Dragonfly Books, 1999), which inspired some of the children to try out some Chinese characters on their tigers.

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To make your own PaperTigers’ paper tiger, click here.