Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese Festivals)

This book explains the Mid-Autumn or Moon Festival in simple, accessible language for young children. It was perfect for my three year old, and her five year old sister enjoyed it as well. The story follows little Mei as she celebrates the evening with her family. Her grandfather tells the story of Hou Yi, who shot down the nine suns. We have several different children's books about the Moon Festival, and this story varies from book to book. In this book, they tell the more upbeat tale where Hou Yi's wife Chang'e takes his potion of immortality to save it from the hands of a wicked warrior. In some versions of this tale, she steals it because she is jealous.At the end of the book, the family makes mooncakes together and walks through the steps. But, it's not really a "quick recipe" as it says in the description. There are no portions, and quite honestly, making mooncakes is anything but a "quick" project. Still, it was fun to read the steps as we ate our mooncakes (picked up from the local Ranch 99 market).We'd definitely recommend this book to others, whether or not you are Chinese or know anything about this holiday to start with. It's a great way to introduce the holiday to young ones.

A good 'mooncake festival' storybook - short + simple -- great for young kids.I wanted to note, for those wondering, that the typo ("fifth") has been corrected to "fifteen."

My six year old likes this book.

Great book

Easy to read, a great book for teaching Chinese culture. My toddlers and I enjoy reading it a lot. I highly recommend it to others.

I would like to point out that the Mid-Autumn Festival is not on the fifth day of the eighth month as stated in this book. It is probably a typo. The Mid-Autumn Festival is actually on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar.

My 2 1/2 year old son loves this book. We read it every night before bed and he finds something new to talk about in the book each time. It is a nice way to learn about the story behind celebrations and customs. Also check out Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival. My son loves this book too.

「中秋の名月」で知られる旧暦８月１５日に関する絵本です。有名な中国の故事や、中秋節の伝統的な食べ物「月餅」について書かれています。欧米に住む中国系ファミリーの人たち向けに書かれた本だと思われますが、中秋は既に日本の伝統行事にもなっているので、その由来を知っておくのも悪くないと思います。