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Get ready to celebrate Lunar New Year in this delightful story.
Ren and his family are preparing for the New Year celebrations – cooking a feast and tidying up. But when Ren accidentally rips apart his mum’s dragon costume for the New Year parade, he has to ask his neighbours for help. As they provide him with the materials he needs to fix the dragon, he learns all about Lunar New Year traditions around the world and soon they are all celebrating together with a festive feast. A heartfelt story from chef and food writer Lara Lee in her picture book debut, richly illustrated by Natelle Quek.

Celebrate the power of love, family bonds, the memory of traditions and sharing truly delicious food with this stunningly illustrated hardback picture book, jacketed with gold foil.

A little girl is shown how to make dumplings by her grandma and they absolutely love the ritual of cooking together: We roll. We fill. We pinch and pleat. We cook! When Grandma gets sick, the little girl takes her turn to make dumplings and help soothe her grandma back to wellness – channeling as much love and comfort as she can into her cooking. Luckily, delicious homemade dumplings hold a lot of goodness inside.

Drawing from her own Chinese heritage, author Eva Wong Nava shows, with lyricism, warmth and poetry, how cooking provides children with a sense of connection to their family, as well as a feeling of community, and how making food can be a hugely healing process. With stunning detailed illustrations from Natelle Quek, this is a delicious celebration of a book for any time of year.

It’s dance class day and Gran will teach Kwesi and the neighbours her trophy-winning dance, the Shooby-Doo Mambo. But Gran hurts her knee before Kwesi can learn all the steps. How will he learn the special dance now?

Slowly Kwesi finds the confidence to practice the steps on his own, but dancing without Gran is not the same…Kwesi’s inventive solution delivers a heartwarming surprise. Next dance class day, he and Gran dance the new Shooby-Do Mambo.

Twirling their glittery canes in the air while seated on chairs, they wow all the neighbours Just Like So!

A simple lesson in the importance of respecting names. This charming book explores the impact of the way we refer to people and how important it is to take time to learn and use people’s names correctly. The text is full of expressive verbs to describe how the children are playing the instruments in the story. There is a lot of opportunity to explore the breadth of vocabulary through this narrative. The characters in the story represent a diverse mix of children and give plenty of opportunity for children to see themselves in this book.

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