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   Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year- a book review

   Title: Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year Author: Tricia Morrissey with Illustrations ...

   China Ernie Yap

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Red Envelopes

   Children's pockets bulge with a windfall of shiny, red envelopes. Each envelope is a gift; the gl...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - New Year's Traditions

   For a fresh start in the new year, families spend the last days of the old year sweeping floors, ...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Brush Painting

   Chinese brush paintings decorate each page of this book. If you look closely, you will see the pa...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Firecrackers

   To scare away the terrible Nian, the daring villagers lit hissing, popping firecrackers. Now the ...

   China / Taiwan Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Parades

   On the Champs Elysées in Paris, on Singapore's Orchard Road, and on Canal Street in New York Cit...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Flowers & Plants

   To bring the sweet scent of spring inside, families visit the flower market on the day before the...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Fruit

   Families and friends carry bright oranges, leafy tangerines and golden pomelos when they stop to ...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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   Celebrating Chinese New Year - Introduction

   Hiss! and "Pop!" snap the firecrackers! "Boom!" says the drum to the Lion Dancer. Chinese New Yea...

   China Tricia Morrissey

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Lantern Festival

    Chinese New Year ends with the Lantern Festival, when bright paper lanterns help the full moon li...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Eating Together

    New Year's feasting begins on New Year's eve. In northern China, families gather at kitchen table...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Tray of Happiness

    A tray full of happiness sits by the door, ready to share with visitors. Sweet dried fruits like ...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - A New Year's Legend

    One New Year's eve, local bandits played a trick on a nearby village. Using bamboo and scraps of ...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Chinese Calligraphy

    Chinese calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Calligraphers have to ...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Lion Dance

    The shimmering, frolicking Lion Dance banishes last year's troubles and welcomes the new year's p...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Christmas in Hong Kong

    I've lived in Hong Kong for six years and people from North America always ask me "How do you cel...

    China MaryLou Driedger

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    Buddhist New Year in Yangon

    Buddhist New Year, known as the Thingyan festival in Myanmar (Burma), is celebrated every where i...

    Myanmar AFP/Hla Hla Htay

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    Pakistan's Basant Festival

    The ancient eastern city of Lahore marks the beginning of spring with the Basant carnival, an org...

    Pakistan AFP

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    Exploring Japan...In San Francisco

    Twelve city blocks in the heart of San Francisco are home to a thriving Japanese community. Bound...

    Japan Celeste Heiter

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    Zoo Extraordinaire

      I have visited many zoological parks, mainly because of my children. My husband and I beli...

    Philippines Puspa Malar

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