Water Dragon: A Chinese Legend - Retold in English and Chinese (Stories of the Chinese Zodiac)

The book is a hardcover and you appreciate the artwork through each of the pages. It's quite nice that the story is written in both English and Chinese. The story, itself, is quite endearing and heroic. Great book to teach children about different cultures with visionary depictions.

I bought this book as a bedtime story to read my 2 year old daughter.The book has a nice balance of several things:1. A simple story arc that she is able to follow.2. A protagonist in the Greedy Red Monster.3. A little boy who goes "POOF!" and turns into a dragon at the end.4. Several animals she is able to identify with.We read this book (and a few others) nearly every night, and she typically asks for it by name. She knows the story by heart.The only thing I would improve is this: There is a picture towards the beginning of several sad people, including a sad dog. At the end, after the dragon brings the rain back, I would love there to be a happy version of this pictures. Due to her age, she has a hard time understanding that the people are happy after the rains come back, and no matter how often we look at that picture, the people are still sad.Overall this is a wonderful children's story that I would highly recommend for "story time / Bedtime" reading.

I am a professor of education and took this with me to China as a visiting professor of teaching methods. My students experienced Readers Theater first hand and developed ways to implement this method in the classroom. I left this book and others in the series with my niece, who teaches at an English school in Shanghai. She will use it with her preschool students.

My ten year old granddaughter loved it

Bought this as a present for my niece, who is taking Chinese. She seemed to enjoy it.

GiftWell received

Very good story kids love it

Interest story read to my grandson. Like the bi languages

Delightful story really enjoyed by two small boys

Both English and Chinese are written beautifully and the story is interesting. My son loves it.

Gostei das versões em inglês e chinês. Importante para quem estuda esses dois idiomas.