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The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters |  | Author: Christoph Niemann
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 15136
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0061577766
EAN: 9780061577765
ASIN: 0061577766
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
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| • | ISBN13: 9780061577765 | | • | Condition: NEW | | • | Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. |
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Product Description
Meet Lin and her pet dragon! When the dragon mysteriously disappears, Lin sets off on a journey to find her best friend . . . and readers set off on a journey of learning and discovery. By ingeniously integrating written Chinese characters into the illustrations as the story progresses, Christoph Niemann has created a book that is engrossing, unique, and memorable. The Pet Dragon is a playful introduction to the fascinating world of Chinese language and culture . . . and a terrific story to share with children everywhere. You are invited to join Lin for an adventure you will not soon forget!
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 We love this book! October 27, 2008
Victoria Noble (east bay, California)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am a director of a Preschool and we teach the Mandarin Language here. I ordered this book to add to our collection of story telling and was pleasantly surprised! This is a great book to start teaching the Chinese written characters and the children love love love this story! They even now can pick out the written characters in other written materials because of this book. The story is memorable. Author uses the Chinese character strokes over the pictures. Pictures are cute and story is entertaining.Highly recommend this book!!!
Great Present September 30, 2008
Britt (Philadelpha, Pa)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book as a present and had to read it first for myself. The book's illustrations help you understand the Chinese characters and bring the story together. After one look through, i was already testing myself on which characters I had learned. You'll be surprised at how fast you can pick up on it. I definitely recommend this book for you, your child or as an awesome present!
Educational and entertaining January 31, 2009
M. Cole (California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Pet Dragon is a story about a girl and her pet baby dragon. They have fun together until one day he dragon goes missing. The girl goes out in search of her pet dragon only to find him all grown up and living amongst other dragons. The story is entertaining, but what makes this book interesting is its use of Chinese characters. The Chinese characters are incorporated into the illustrations to show what they represent. This could be a useful device for memorizing the difficult characters through visualizing pictures. The first thing my daughter did after reading this book is she started copying each of the Chinese characters. She then asked how to say each word in Chinese. This book caught her interest right away and has been a great learning tool for both language and art.
Learn Chinese Writing. March 1, 2009
Steven
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship, and Chinese Characters
The Pet Dragon cunningly combines a charming story and fun illustrations with a visual guide to simple Chinese characters. There are three to four thousand characters in the Chinese language, and many of them are little icons representing their meaning. Niemann has incorporated a collection of these characters into the illustrations for this story in a way that shows their resemblance to the things or ideas that they symbolize. In this way he provides a simple and enjoyable introduction to the distinctive Chinese system of writing.
The story itself follows the adventures of little Lin and her pet baby dragon. The two of them do everything together, until the day they break a vase while playing soccer in the house. Lin's father insists that the dragon must now stay in a cage, but the next morning Lin finds that her dragon has escaped. Lin sets off on an adventure to find her friend, and in the end both the two friends, and Lin and her father, are happily reunited. This book can be enjoyed by children both for its story and for its unusual presentation of Chinese writing, and is a fun read for dads and kids together at either level.
Excellent! September 11, 2009
Mummy (Britian)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very well done - an excellent and appropriate story with simple, bold but interesting illustrations and I have given it to many of my friends to aide teaching of their young children. Parent and child alike love the book and it is highly effective, even with children as young as 2 years of age! I appreciate too that the story background is Chinese in origin. My only lament is that the book did not also offer Pinyin guidance for non-native Mandarin speakers. I hope there may be additional volumes to come!
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