CNY: Dragon Dances & Dumplings
Recycled Dragon Puppet
As we're celebrating a quiet Chinese New Years (our first fireworks-less CNY in 6 years..Booo Hooo!) we're reading about Dragon Dances, dumplings and sage advice from elders!
Tomorrow we'll dress our Dragon for the parade.
Tonight we're thinking about how Shanghai will wake up lazily to streets heaped with shreds of smokey red paper from last eve's events.
One of my favourite books, not surprisingly by Frog & Toad's author, Arnold Lobel.
A funny tale about a man and wife who cannot grow food or enjoy sunshine as they are living too close to the mountain and the advice they are given to move the mountain away.
O wants this book read over and over, likely due to some comical cackle given to the Funny Little Woman, or the Wicked Oni that are frightening in the best kind of ways!
Little images drawn in each corner, highlight the Little Woman's house as it changes through the seasons.
Another favourite!
A poor boy is the only wise one in town; he welcomes an old wandering man and treats him well, without knowing he is a powerful dragon who can save the city.
Chin Chiang is about a boy who is meant to dance the famed Dragon Dance with his grandfather, but fears he will be too clumsy and displease the gods. He gains courage from an elderly woman who once donned the Dragon herself, but believes she is too old to try again.