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The Chinese New Year helper

Jia, eager to help with Chinese New Year preparations at her family's restaurant, is disappointed when told she is too young until she unexpectedly becomes a vital part of the lion dance performance.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Compestine, Ying Chang (Author)
Other Authors:	Hsu, Ginnie (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Rocky Pond Books, 2024.
Subjects:	Helping behavior > Juvenile fiction. Chinese New Year > Juvenile fiction. New Year > Juvenile fiction. Holidays > Juvenile fiction. Chinese Americans > Juvenile fiction. Helpfulness > Juvenile fiction. Lunar New Year > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	Jia, eager to help with Chinese New Year preparations at her family's restaurant, is disappointed when told she is too young until she unexpectedly becomes a vital part of the lion dance performance.
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
Audience:	Ages 3-6 years.
ISBN:	9780593534014 0593534018
Author Notes:	Ying Chang Compestine grew up in Wuhan, China during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which she has written about in her acclaimed novel Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party and her picture book memoir, Growing Up Under a Red Flag. She graduated from Central China Normal University with a degree in English, then earned her Master's in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is an award-winning author of 25 books (fiction, picture books, and cookbooks), a leading national authority on Asian culture and cuisine, a former food editor for Martha Stewart's Whole Living magazine, and has taught writing and sociology in both the U.S. and China. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband. Ginnie Hsu is an illustrator and educator living in Upstate New York. Her work is often inspired by everyday life, nature, and her upbringing in Taiwan with her grandparents. When she is not in her studio, you can find her gardening, working at a local flower farm, or hiking with her husband and their dogs.