Grades
PreK - 5
Festive Classroom Books About Lunar New Year
Celebrate this exciting holiday with your students in grades PreK–5.
Lunar New Year is celebrated all over the world and is a time to focus on family, traditions, and culture. This year on January 29, many family and friends will gather to ring in the year of the snake. With rich illustrations, fun facts, and loveable characters (like Peppa Pig), the titles on this list are sure to become favorites in your classroom as you teach about this wonderful holiday.
These books will help you bring Lunar New Year celebrations into your classroom. Use them to help teach students about the history behind this ancient holiday and the customs and traditions that families participate in to celebrate, from years past to today.
Shop books about Lunar New Year below! You can find all books and activities at The Teacher Store.
Join television favorite Peppa and her friends on their wonderful adventures!
Goldy is only supposed to be dropping off turnip cakes at the Chans' house. Soon, though, she's eating the littlest panda's rice porridge, breaking his rocking chair, and rumpling all the blankets on his futon.
Six-year-old Ernie Wan is about to perform his first Lion Dance in the Chinese New Year celebration in New York City.
This festive book teaches that Lunar New Year is about spending time with family and friends, lighting lanterns, setting off fireworks, dancing with dragons, and living in the new year in harmony and happiness.
Learn about the traditions and festivities of Chinese New Year in this introduction to the Asian holiday.
When PoPo, her Chinese grandmother, comes to visit, a young Chinese American girl learns of and participates in the customs and beliefs celebrating an authentic Chinese New Year.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, a poor man's son goes to market and brings home an empty—but magic—wok that changes their fortunes forever.
The Chinese New Year is considered everyone's birthday, and this book describes the festivals that go on in the Chinatowns located in the major cities of the United States.
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose travel across the country to experience the Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco. But when night falls and the fireworks crackle, Miss Chinatown and her crown go missing! The celebration is ruined, and the prime suspect is a friend! Now Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose must clear their friend's name by finding the real culprit.
