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month 2009: theme
Our American society follows a solar calendar of 365 days that is based on the earth going around the sun—it is called the Western calendar. Many other cultures follow a lunar calendar of 354 days that is based on the moon’s cycle. Each month is 28 – 29 days and every three years an extra month is added to the calendar.
The Chinese New Year is a lunar calendar and is followed by many Asian cultures. The Chinese New Year this year is on February 7; this is the year of the Rat. Other examples of a lunar calendar are the Hebrew (or Jewish) calendar and the Hmong calendar. The Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, is in September; the Hmong New Year is in November. Whatever the culture, the beginning of the New Year is a time to start fresh.
- Dumpling Soup* by Jama Kim Rattigan
- Shanté Keys and the New Year’s Peas* by Gail Piernas-Davenport
- When the Chickens Went on Strike: A Rosh Hashanah Tale* by Erica Silverman
- This Next New Year* by Janet S. Wong
- Happy New Year: Hung-His Fa-Ts”ai! by Demi
- The Dancing Dragon by Marcia Vaughan
- Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn
- My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz
- Dragon Dance (A Chinese New Year Lift-the-Flap book) by Joan Holub
- New Clothes for New Year’s Day by Hyun-Joo Bae
- The Runaway Rice Cake by Ying Chang Compestine
- Chinese New Year’s Dragon by Rachel Sing
- Chinese New Year by David Marx (NF – younger readers)
- Chinese New Year by Dianne M. MacMillan (NF – older readers)
- Chinese New Year by Tricia Brown (NF)
- D is for Dragon Dance by Ying Chang Compestine
- Buster Changes His Luck by Marc Brown
- Just in Time for New Year’s by Karen Gray Ruelle
- Celebrate Tet by Laura Jefrey (NF)
- Ten Mice for Tet by Pegi Deitz Shea and Cynthia Weill
- The Bravest Flute: A Story of Courage in the Mayan Tradition by Ann Grifalconi
- Dara’s Cambodian New Year by Sothea Chiemruom
- Days of Awe: Stories for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur by Eric A. Kimmel
- Sound of the Shofar! A Story for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur by Leslie Kimmelman
- Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur by dana Meachen Rau (NF)
- Happy New Year, Beni by Jane Breskin Zalben
- Lionel in the Winter by Stephen Krensky
- P. Bear’s New Year’s Party (A Counting Book) by Paul Owen Lewis
- Little Bear’s New Years Party by Janice
* also listed on the monthly flyer
^ previously read on StoryLine
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