"Reference" Books:
- Dragonology by Ernest Drake
- How to raise and keep a dragon by Joe Nigg
- The Dragonology Handbook: A Practical Course in Dragons by Dugald Steer
- Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One by Patricia C. Wrede (also available as an audio book)
- Searching for Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book Two by Patricia C. Wrede (also available as an audio book)
- Calling on Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book Three by Patricia C. Wrede (also available as an audio book)
- Talking to Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book Four by Patricia C. Wrede (also available as an audio book)
- Dragon's Blood: The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volume One (Pit Dragon Chronicles)by Jane Yolan
- Dragon's Milk (Dragon Chronicles, Book 1) by Susan Fletcher
- Flight of the Dragon Kyn (Dragon Chronicles, Book 2) by Susan Fletcher
- How to Train Your Dragon (Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) * by Cressida Cowell (We have not yet read her How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking)
- Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
- The Dragon's Boy: A Tale of Young King Arthur by Jane Yolan
- (read to them) Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain by M. Bateson-Hill (really nice paper cut illustrations, OK instructions at the end)
- Dancing Dragon by Marcia Vaughn. An accordion-fold picture book
- The Rooster's Antlers: A Story of the Chinese Zodiac by Eric Kimmel. (especially for the beautiful papercut illustrations)
- Silk Peony, Parade Dragon by Elizabeth Steckman (longer story than many picture books)
- The Day the Dragon Danced by Kay Haugaard (picture book, ages 4 - 8) not really a Chinese New Year book, but perhaps an accurate picture of how many preschools might celebrate it. I like it - although I wish the snack at the end were something besides lollipops for a number of reasons.
- Long is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children by Peggy Goldstein
- The Dragonslayers by Bruce Coville
- The Dragons Are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky and Peter Sis (poetry)
- The Dragon of Doom (Moongobble and Me) by Bruce Coville
- How to Speak Dragonese (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III) by Cressida Cowell
- Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance by Ian Wallace (also Chinese New Year's related)
- Here there Be Dragons Jane Yolan (grades 3 - 8), Collection of 5 poems and 8 stories
- A Dragon Book by Donn Kushner (ages 9 -12, grades 6 - 8)
- D is for Dancing Dragon : A China alphabet by Carol Crane and Illustrated by Zong-Zhoiu Wang. (picture book) I don't care for the illustrations and the rhymes seem forced. Mandarin and pinyin was used for
- E - "Ehru" (Although in Mandarin it is "Erhu", so I don't know if that is a typo or if another dialect of Chiense was used),
- Q - "Qin Terra Cotta warriors" and
- X - "Xiexie" Thank you"
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