Books To Celebrate the Lunar New Year for Any Age

Count to twelve with the zodiac animals as they get ready to celebrate Chinese New Year! Sweet, colorful illustrations introduce each of the zodiac animals as they bring special items to the celebration.

Every year, millions of families come together to celebrate the first new moon in the sky. Now preschoolers can learn about the zodiac animals, the delicious food, the exciting parades, and all the fun traditions. Filled with colorful illustrations and simple, yet informative text, this Big Golden Book is perfect for reading again and again to the whole family. Happy Lunar New Year!

It’s Lunar New Year and there are so many fun things to do! Shopping at the outdoor market, eating New Year’s dinner with the whole family, receiving red envelopes from Grandma and Grandpa, and best of all – watching the spectacular Lunar New Year’s parade! This interactive lift-the-flap book is perfect for parents and early readers to enjoy together!

A young girl finds an exciting role for herself at the Chinese New Year celebration in her family’s restaurant. At last, she isn’t being told that she’s too young to help!

This exuberant story follows a Chinese American family as they prepare for the Lunar New Year. Each member of the family lends a hand as they hang decorations and make dumplings. Then it’s time to put on new clothes and celebrate with family and friends. Grace Lin’s artwork is a bright and gloriously patterned celebration in itself! And her story is tailor-made for reading aloud.

Hóng is the color of explosive firecrackers! Jīn is the hue of lucky coins. Zŏng is the shade of sweet peanut puffs. Welcome to the festivities of the Chinese New Year, where symbolic gifts, foods, and objects come together in a celebration of beautiful colors. This vibrant and simple bilingual book is the perfect introduction to Chinese and English words for colors as it honors one of the biggest holidays around the world.

It’s the night before Lunar New Year, and a little girl is excited for all of the celebrations to come. She’s prepared dumplings with her mom, bought a new dress in Chinatown, and even helped scare mythical beast Nian away with her cousins and brother. There’s only one problem: She’s a bit nervous about all of the loud noises at the upcoming Lunar New Year Parade. Will she overcome her fears? Find out in the latest installment of the Night Before series, told in the style of Clement C. Moore’s classic tale.

Ring in the Lunar New Year with this sweet picture book by Emmy-winning TV host Michelle W. Park. This heartwarming story follows two sisters as they explore the Korean traditions of Seollal while learning about the importance of family. The author’s own dumpling recipe and a fun activity are included at the end!

It’s Chinese New Year, and Goldy Luck’s mother wants her to take a plate of turnip cakes to the neighbors. The Chans aren’t home, but that doesn’t stop Goldy from trying out their rice porridge, their chairs, and their beds – with disastrous results.

Ring in the holiday with some ADJECTIVE firecrackers and COLOR envelopes, and celebrate Lunar New Year with your family, friends, and Mad Libs!

Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl who goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.

Anxious thirteen-year-old Kaya has always been afraid of everything — but when she learns she is the descendant of a Chinese water goddess, she’ll have to master herself to master her powers!

A twelve-year-old girl wins an invitation to train as an apprentice to immortals in the first book of the new must-read magical series destined to take the world by storm — perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers, Skandar, and Eragon. Let the competition begin!

Pacific Rim meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this blend of Chinese history and mecha science fiction for YA readers. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in a stunning new paperback look with bonus content.

Acclaimed author Gloria Chao creates real-world magic in this luminous romance about teens who devote themselves to granting other people’s wishes but are too afraid to let themselves have their own hearts’ desires — each other.

A princess in exile, a shapeshifting dragon, six enchanted cranes, and an unspeakable curse … Drawing from fairy tales and East Asian folklore, this original fantasy from the author of Spin the Dawn is perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone.

When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke, and jobless, she’s moving back to Malaysia with her parents. She soon learns the new voice is the ghost of her estranged grandmother who is determined to settle a score – and she’s decided Jess is going to help her do it, whether Jess wants to or not. As this reluctant medium will soon discover, the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power in this compelling Malaysian-set contemporary fantasy.

A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.

Set in San Francisco and in a remote village in Southwestern China, Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts and broadened with hope. With her characteristic wisdom, grace, and humor, Tan conjures up a story of the inheritance of love, its secrets and senses, its illusions and truths.

A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires.

Lila Macapagal has just moved back home to recover from a horrible breakup and help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, she becomes the cops’ one and only suspect. Left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block.

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?

Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in a “voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review) – from the National Book Award “5 under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary.

What happens when you mix one (accidental) murder with two thousand wedding guests and then toss in a possible curse on three generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get four meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!

David Su Li-Qun and Carolyn Choa introduce nineteen of China’s most enthralling writers to date, largely unknown outside their native land. From Shanghai to Beijing, we meet people whose lives have been transformed by their country’s turbulent recent history. The Vintage Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction is a literary testament to a post-revolutionary nation in transition.

From the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes “one of the funniest books of the year … a delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire” (The Washington Post). Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration – Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the pursuit of happiness, surviving one’s thirties intact, and opening oneself up to love.