Best Chinese New Year picture books for preschool and up (fun lunar New Year picture books)! Have fun bringing in the new year with these fun read alongs for your Spring Festival holiday children’s book list!
Best Chinese New Year Picture Books
Great Chinese New Year books read aloud ideas or circle time books — even great Lunar New Year books for toddlers! These are our picks for favorite children’s books about the Chinese New Year…
Books On Chinese New Year For Kids
Picture Books to Celebrate Lunar New Year:
- Ruby’s Chinese New Year
- A New Year’s Reunion: A Chinese Story
- Chinese New Year Wishes: Chinese Spring and Lantern Festival Celebration (Fun Festivals)
- Lunar New Year (Celebrate the World, Book 4 in series)
- A New Year’s Reunion
- Hiss! Pop! Boom!
- Playing with Lanterns
- The Great Race: Story of the Chinese Zodiac
- Yeh-Shen
- The 12 Days of Lunar New Year
- Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns
- Peppa’s Chinese New Year
- Dim Sum for Everyone!
- Maisy’s Chinese New Year: A Maisy First Experiences Book
- The Great Race: Story of the Chinese Zodiac
- Ten Little Dumplings
- The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale
- 12 Lucky Animals: A Bilingual Baby Book
- The Night Before Lunar New Year
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More Awesome Picture Books About Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year Story Book List
Fun books for Chinese New Year to add to your children’s holiday reading list!
Great if you’re looking for Chinese New Year books for preschoolers / Chinese New Year books for toddlers / Chinese New Year books kindergarten.
Here are our favorite picks for best Chinese new year books / best Chinese New Year children’s books read aloud ideas:
Dragon Dance: A Chinese New Year Lift-the-Flap Book by by Joan Holub and Benrei Huang
This is one of our all-time favorite books and inspired us to make this DANCING DRAGON CRAFT!
The book takes kids through all the preparations for Chinese New Year, lifting different flaps to learn more.
Definitely add it to your lunar new year children’s books!
Our vote for a fun Chinese New Year book!
Our Lunar New Year by Yobe Qiu
Learn how kids celebrate Lunar New Year in different ways in this Chinese New Year story books.
I love this book because it gives kids a view of Lunar New Year from different cultures — Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indian families!
Great for preschool and Chinese New Year books for kindergarten and up and if you’re looking for Lunar New Year stories that covers how the holiday is celebrated in different areas.
Lunar New Year (Celebrate the World)
In this cute board book, kids will learn all about Lunar New year.
Fourth board book in the Celebrate the World series and perfect for your Lunar New Year books read aloud list.
Great for Chinese New Year toddler books!
Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin
In this children’s book, a Chinese American family prepares for the Lunar New Year and we get to see all the preparations from dusting out the old year, decorating for Chinese New Year, making traditional dumplings and more.
Great to see what a family goes through in preparation, so add it to your preschool Chinese New Year books / lunar new year books for kindergarten and up.
How to Catch a Dragon by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton
The kids are at it once again, but this time they’re trying to catch a dragon during Chinese New Year.
Have fun along following along through China during the Spring Festival and learn all about the Chinese New Year celebrations of fireworks, red envelopes, and more!
Part of the How to Catch series. If you have the others in the series, also add this one as part of your children’s Chinese New Year books.
PoPo’s Lucky Chinese New Year by Virginia Loh-Hagan and Renné Benoit
When a Chinese grandmother (PoPo) visits her granddaughter in America, the girl learns all about the Chinese New Year celebration and holiday traditions.
If you’re looking for a more detailed lesson on Chinese New Year customs, this is a good children’s book for that.
Chinese New Year Colors by Richard Lo
Unique perspective on the Chinese New Year because it approaches the new year traditions from a color perspective.
Love that it introduces kids to Chinese and English words for colors for a bilingual addition.
“Hóng is the color of explosive firecrackers! Jīn is the hue of lucky coins. Zŏng is the shade of sweet peanut puffs.”
Fun stories for Chinese New Year for bilingual learning.
(Don’t be afraid to add bilingual books to your Chinese New Year preschool books list and Lunar New Year read alouds!)
ALSO CHECK OUT THESE LUNAR NEW YEAR KIDS ACTIVITIES TO GO WITH YOUR PICTURE BOOKS CHINESE NEW YEAR LIST:
Make Homemade Chinese Dumplings with Kids
Make DIY Fortune Cookies with Kids
(TEACHING MOMENT: And then discuss with kids why fortune cookies aren’t really Chinese, even though they’re served in Chinese restaurants in America!)
Celebrating Chinese New Year: History, Traditions, and Activities – A Holiday Book for Kids (Holiday Books for Kids) by Eugenia Chu
This book covers Chinese New Year history, folklore, traditions, and customs.
What makes this kids’ book different is that it also includes interactive activities and hands-on crafts.
Awesome children’s books on Chinese New Year and Chinese New Year activity ideas!
It also encourages kids to celebrate at home or in their own community.
Great for easy Chinese New Year books for elementary students / Chinese New Year chapter books, too!
Definitely add this to your books to celebrate Chinese New Year and learn about the holiday and the story of Chinese New Year.
Chelsea’s Chinese New Year by Lisa Bullard and Katie Saunders
Chelsea is excited that she gets to stay up late preparing for Chinese New Year and then celebrating the holiday.
Quirky cute illustrations your kids will love to add to your Lunar New Year books preschool list.
Part of the Cloverleaf Books Holidays and Special Days series and great if you’re doing a year of books on different holidays.
Goldy Luck And The Three Pandas By Natasha Yim and Grace Zong
This book is a funny take on the tale of Goldilocks And The Three Bears.
Goldy Luck’s mom takes a plate of turnip cakes to the neighbors for the Chinese New Year.
When the neighbors aren’t home, Goldy Luck tries their rice, chairs, and beds.
Find out what happens… you may be surprised!
A New Year’s Reunion by Li-Qiong Yu and Zhu Cheng-Liang
Beautiful and emotional book not only about Chinese New Year, but a family reunion and commitment to each other.
Winner of the Feng Zikai Chinese Children’s Picture Book Award and many people say it’s one of the best books on Chinese New Year.
Baby’s First Chinese New Year by DK
Bright and fun Chinese New Year images make up this board book for imaginative stories about Chinese New Year.
Perfect to introduce little ones to the holiday!
Part of the Baby’s First Holidays book series.
My First Chinese New Year (My First Holiday) by Karen Katz
Cute illustrations follows a little girl as she goes through all the celebrations of Chinese New Year.
This is such a cute Chinese New Year book for preschoolers or toddlers!
Baby Loves Lunar Phases on Chinese New Year! by Ruth Spiro and Irene Chan
I love this angle of the this Chinese New Year board book because it not only talks about the holiday celebrations, but also covers the science behind lunar phases — lunar calendar, the moon’s orbit, why the moon changes shape and more!
Don’t let the STEM book side scare you!
Definitely add this to your Chinese new year stories for preschoolers!
Part of the Baby Loves Science series (super cool other books in that series!).
If you’re looking for Chinese New Year STEM activities, add this one to your Chinese New Year books for kids (or even if you’re looking for picture books about the moon!).
READ THIS NEXT: Chinese New Year Activities For Kids and Free Lunar New Year Printable for Kids – great to learn more about the story of Chinese New Year history, which country celebrates Lunar New Year and more to go with your Lunar New Year books for preschool.
These are the best Chinese New Year books for toddlers and preschoolers or any time you need picture books for Lunar New Year / Chinese New Year read alouds!
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