How to Catch a Dragon

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It's great to do that in a book set in America, but if this was meant to teach us a bit about China, it's not quite the melting pot America is.

This one though, was set in what seems like China, and yet the ethnicity of the characters seem varied. I enjoyed the hints at other dragon books, the inclusion of many different colored characters and the fun way to teach children about Chinese New Year. Ultimately, despite the protagonist’s failure to catch the dragon, it is being within the embrace of a loving family (depicted as a mother and a grandmother) that is the luckiest of all.Harmless, but if there is a parable hidden in the dragon-taco tale, it is hidden in the unlit deep, and as a measure of lunacy, bridled or unbridled, it doesn’t make the leap into the outer reaches of imagination. With very mild peril that is quickly resolved, and friendly mythical creatures, this book is great fun! This fun book will take you on a chase through a beautifully illustrated cultural holiday, leaving hints of popular traditions and decorations as the group of diverse friends follow a long red dragon tail through town, attempting to catch it at every turn. I like the fact that it mixes in different ethnicities in the illustrations, and that it represents a different culture for these fun stories!

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Having devoured all four previous books, I was thrilled when I spotted How To Catch A Dragon and we settled down to read it together. In this one, the story centers on kids trying to catch the Chinese New Year's dragon and learning that family and friends stick with one another through thick and thin. This is a great book, the drawings are amazing and we are thrown into the imagination of a little boy!

There's something about these books that makes it really hard for me to like them (even though I really want to). Despite a series of cleverly planned traps, the children never manage to catch the dragon they were hunting.And I get that perhaps not all children's books have to make sense, but there are certain things about this book that give me pause.

Her best-selling Princess series and Albie series have each sold over a quarter of a million copies and her books are published in numerous languages all over the world. As an educator, I would love to know the translations for this text as it would add to the educational value. Coming up with elaborate ways to capture something is an idea that all kids will think about and be interested in. On liftoff day (a space shuttle–themed calendar counts down the days; a stopwatch, the minutes), the small family boards their rocket ship (depicted in the illustrations as the family car), and “the boosters fire. It's got a lovely nod to Dragons Love Tacos as well, which is one of the greatest children's books ever written so that's nice.

I don't think a kid is really going to mind that either, but I will admit that I do think it takes a little bit away from the overall song-feel of the tale, which I believe was the purpose of rhyming in the first place. Cute story from the famous author of the "How to catch" series , but this has to be my favorite; its got a DRAGON! My little boy is only 4 and doesn't know how to speak English, no matter, he really likes the drawings and history, that i have translated!