Benson Shum

Celebrate Chinese New Year with this sweet story of friendship and family!

In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers!

Chinese New Year is the most important holiday for Alex and her family, so it's even more special when she gets to share her favorite traditions with her best friend, Ethan. Together, they join the Chinese New Year parade and get to help make the dragon dance. Then they prepare for the festivities by tidying up, decorating, and making dumplings. After that, it's time to open red envelopes, eat a great big feast, and enjoy the lantern fesival! Complete with fun facts about the holiday in the back of the book, young readers will want to revisit this story again and again.

-Amazon Description… (altro)

This is a story about a young hippo named Holly. Her sister Dottie, her father, and Holly are headed to the pool one day. holly gets nervous when her father mentions going to the pool. She is afraid the water will be too cold, or that shell get water in her eyes, ears, or nose. Holly is afraid she might sink to the bottom, and is afraid that their might be a snapping turtle in the pool. All these fears do not stop Holly from diving to the bottom of the pool when her sister Dottie's toy Piggie Wiggy falls in the pool.… (altro)