I was a bit confused by all the nationalities of kids in town as it made it hard to figure out where this story was suppose to be taking place.

Set in China during the Spring Festival, the wily dragon will have to avoid trap after trap as the kids run through paper lanterns, fireworks, the Nian lion puppet, and more! When she's not writing, Caryl can be found at her local gym, hiking in the hills of the Peak District with her dog, or drinking tea in a nearby cafe.

This outing has the kids trying to find and catch a dragon, in this story it is a dragon that is part of a celebration for "Chinese New Year" The boy and his friends desperately wants to catch a dragon to guarantee health and good fortune for the New Year. Harmless, but if there is a parable hidden in the dragon-taco tale, it is hidden in the unlit deep, and as a measure of lunacy, bridled or unbridled, it doesn’t make the leap into the outer reaches of imagination.

A little boy desperately wants to catch a dragon to guarantee health and good fortune for the New Year.I was given an advance copy through NetGalley in a document form and did have some issues viewing the text but the overall effect of the story was very enjoyable, I know that there is a Mandarin translation in the back of the book but had a hard time navigating through this section. My little boy is only 4 and doesn't know how to speak English, no matter, he really likes the drawings and history, that i have translated! Written in rhyming text with adorable digitally painted artwork, a group of young children are chasing down a dragon.

My favorite parts were when the kids threw money around and when the dragon looked around the building with a mischievous look. As an educator, I would love to know the translations for this text as it would add to the educational value. I like the fact that it mixes in different ethnicities in the illustrations, and that it represents a different culture for these fun stories! This fun book will take you on a chase through a beautifully illustrated cultural holiday, leaving hints of popular traditions and decorations as the group of diverse friends follow a long red dragon tail through town, attempting to catch it at every turn.

Join Albie on a knightly quest in this fantastic follow up to Welcome to Alien School and How to Grow a Dinosaur. I also like that this story deals with an ethnic holiday (Chinese New Year) and that the characters in the story were all nationalities. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And perhaps I'm being a bit harsh, but I'm kind of baffled as to why a white kid needs to be involved in a book that's portraying a story about a cultural tradition of China. When Albie visits the library to find a book about dragons, he certainly doesn’t expect to meet a real knight and his horse!