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  Awakening the Dragon - The Dragon Boat Festival
  Awakening the Dragon - The Dragon Boat Festival
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Awakening the Dragon - The Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Racing is very popular!  In ancient times, the Chinese saw the dragon as both a protector and a threat, able to bring on rain or cause droughts. To honor this powerful creature, people created long narrow boats that they raced in an annual rainmaking festival. Some types of Dragons lived in rivers.  The Dragon Boat Festival was meant to bring luck, during the unluckiest time of the year that is traditionally celebrated in the fifth month on the fifteenth day.

The book does a great job of exploring the origins, legends, customs, and in the modern day the Dragon Boat Races.  Every other page has some type of illustration on it that is extremely lifelike.

Arlene Chan, a respected librarian and an experienced dragon boat racer wrote the book. The beautifully detailed illustrations by Song Nan Zhang let you experience the Dragon Boat Festival and Racing. Soft Cover

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important of the Chinese Holidays, second only in importance to Chinese New Year. 

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Chinese Tradition May 4, 2008
Reviewer: Tina Matsunaga from Gillette, WY United States  
This is a great book for older elementary or middle school children to understand why the dragon boat festival is important to the Chinese culture.

The information is interesting, regardless of a child's background.

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Dragon Boat Races March 27, 2008
Reviewer: JR from Monrovia, ca   
This book contains the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival in clearly written English.  The illustrations are well done.  An excellent choice for anyone who wants to know about Dragon Boats.

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Excellent Book! March 26, 2008
Reviewer: Ray from Rowland Heights, CA United States  
Wonderful illustrations and well written.  A-Z on everything about you would want to know about the Dragon Boat Festival and racing.  Illustrations are so life like.

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