Alex's Good Fortune
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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. Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.
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When author/illustrator Benson Shum is not sleeping, he is drawing or eating. Mostly drawing. By day, he is an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he was a part of such films as Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Moana. At night, he can be found sketching in his pajamas with a slice of pie. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Benson now lives in sunny Southern California.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780593222942
- Publication Date
- December 29, 2020
- Publisher
- Penguin Workshop
- Illustration Details
- The artwork for this book was created with watercolor and ink.
- Page Count
- 32
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 4 - 8 years
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