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The January 20, 2009 issue of The Asian Reporter has a nice, big review of The Day the Dragon Danced by Kay Haugaard, illustrated by Carolyn Reed Barritt. There's a picture of it featured on the front page of the paper, and a big interior shot and cover image included with the review. Nice!

"You can't get a whole lot more multicultural than this rollicking romp for Lunar New Year," the reviewer writes. "Kay Haugaard must have been a precocious girl herself, because her narrator sounds exactly like one. Carolyn Reed Barritt does more than justice to Sugar's vivacity; every one of her paintings is a knockout, from the surreal cover art to Sugar at her school desk, with the Great Wall of China and the twelve animals of Chinese astrology close at hand. Take a dragon for a dance this Lunar New Year."

"Carolyn Reed Barritt's exuberant painting highlights the joy of experiencing another culture for the first time."

-ForeWord Magazine

Kay Haugaard studied Art History at the University of Oregon, then moved to Pasadena, California with her husband. There, she acquired her Master's degree in Comparative Literature at Occidental College while raising her three sons who are now grown. Kay still lives in Pasadena where, over the years, she has written three other books: Myeko's Gift, China Boy, and No Place. The Day the Dragon Danced was inspired by a Chinese New Year parade that she attended in Monterey Park, California.

Carolyn Reed Barritt received an art degree from Macalester College and worked for 15 years as a graphic designer and art director in Michigan and Washington State before returning to her roots in painting and fine art. Carolyn painted the illustrations for The Day the Dragon Danced while living with her husband as the caretakers and sole winter inhabitants of a small island at the edge of the North Atlantic.

Shen’s Books is a publisher of multicultural children’s literature that emphasizes cultural diversity and tolerance, with a focus on introducing children to the cultures of Asia.

Through books, we can share a world a stories, building greater understanding and tolerance within our increasingly diverse communities as well as throughout our continuously shrinking globe.






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The Day the Dragon Danced

By Kay Haugaard
Illustrated by Carolyn Reed Barritt
$16.95, Hardcover, 32 pages
English Text
Ages 4-8
ISBN-10: 1885008309
ISBN-13: 9781885008305

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