This picture book uses brightly patterned artwork and simple enlarged text to show a family celebrating the Chinese New Year. One of the children describes how they help their parents clean the house, hang decorations, and make special dumplings for their festive meal. Wearing new clothes and with fresh haircuts they greet the firecrackers and lanterns that announce the arrival of the dragon parade - which the book conjures up with an extra long surprise fold-out page.