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 lunar envelopes, fireworks, and more! I was a bit confused by all the nationalities of kids in town as it made it hard to figure out where this story was suppose to be taking place.

The way these are written keeps tripping up my tongue, making me hesitant to want to read them aloud to a child.On liftoff day (a space shuttle–themed calendar counts down the days; a stopwatch, the minutes), the small family boards their rocket ship (depicted in the illustrations as the family car), and “the boosters fire. With bright colors and textured details, this picture book will keep little listeners occupied with its busy illustrations.

Another excellent Albie book - good fun to read, large format pages and very well illustrated to capture a small child's imagination.

The first review will be my (not-so-tiny) munchkin's perspective and then I will chime in with my 2 cents. This fun book will take you on a chase through a beautifully illustrated cultural holiday, leaving hints of popular traditions and decorations as the group of diverse friends follow a long red dragon tail through town, attempting to catch it at every turn. I was also a bit confused by the ending saying they had not caught the dragon, when they obviously had. It's great to do that in a book set in America, but if this was meant to teach us a bit about China, it's not quite the melting pot America is. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Books bring out the best imaginations in children and this one does that, with lots of great fun characters to meet along the way of a fun adventure! It has been written to meet the Year 1 expected standard and comes with a handy annotated version detailing the text-type specific features (red), grammar (green), punctuation (purple) and spelling (blue) teaching opportunities should you wish to use this text with your learners. We didn't know that there were other books in the series until we came across what I believed to be a contextual clue regarding tacos.However, as we read through it it soon became clear that it isn't quite up to the same brilliant standard of How To Grow A Dinosaur and Supermarket Zoo. In addition, the artwork is very colorful, and works well with the Chinese culture that the story is representing. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.