5 unique Tet books published by Kim Dong Publishing House, including collections of poetry and literature, comics, interactive books... help young readers understand more about Tet customs throughout the country, and love the traditional Tet customs of the nation more.
Interactive Tet picture book
Every Tet holiday, every Vietnamese family has green banh chung offered to the ancestral altar, a box of fragrant jam to invite guests to visit... Two interactive Tet books "Wrap banh chung!", "Show Tet jam!" are designed specifically for children from 2 years old.
Each page of the book is divided into 3 parts that can be flipped over, allowing children to freely combine leaves, sticky rice, and cake filling to create unique banh chung, or create Tet jam boxes with rich flavors from all three regions.
The book set also opens up for children an interesting vocabulary "khour" about Tet dishes such as: leaves, sticky rice, cake filling, nuts, jam, ô mai... Unique pages of books bring children interesting interactive Tet games, helping to gradually form love for activities during the traditional Tet holiday in a natural and gentle way.
Childhood Tet – Brilliant Tet colors
In the childhood memories of every Vietnamese child, Tet is not only a time of transition to the new year, but also carries the very own scents, colors and rhythm of life of their homeland. The picture book set "Tet of Childhood" with the desire to preserve and share beautiful memories of Tet for young readers with 5 books including: "Tet in the sea town", "Tet in the remote island", "Tet in the green island", "Tet in Cho Lon" and "Grandma in the clouds".
With clear writing, warm images and meticulous research on the culture of each region, "Tet of Childhood" invites young readers to "celebrate Tet" throughout Vietnam, bringing a Spring trip through the pages of books - where each destination opens up a different Tet atmosphere.
Young children celebrate Tet outside Song Tu Tay island (Truong Sa), where banh chung is wrapped in square almond leaves, where the flag salute ceremony on the morning of the first day of Tet takes place solemnly amidst the vast sea and sky. Those are also simple Tet days in the central coastal town, with the sound of Bai Choi singing, bustling playing cards connecting villages. Or Tet in the green islands of the Mekong Delta with Tet cakes creating the words Phuc - Loc - Tho in the cake filling, watermelons pasted with red paper imbued with the soul of the riverine orchard.
Childhood Tet" also has the story of Vietnamese children born and raised abroad, returning to Vietnam for the first time to celebrate Tet with so many strange and touching things. The book set conveys a gentle message: No matter where you are, Tet is still a moment for family to reunite together.
Enjoying Binh Ngo Tet
Listening to Binh Ngo Tet" is a collection of 21 compositions of Poetry - Literature - Music - Painting with the theme Spring and Tet by many authors specifically for young readers.
Children will experience the bustling and exciting spring atmosphere throughout the country, following in the footsteps of Horse - the mascot of the new year, learning about many unique and vivid cultural features from ancient times to modern times, freely letting their imagination wander in the super creative stories of young writers.
Modern "ancient Tet" stories
Cheerful, intelligent, and pure stories about folk customs and habits in a new modern language will help young readers love Tet reunion, a good new year and a warm spring even more.
Author Tran Tuyet Mai shared that, "on a beautiful day, I suddenly felt that it seemed no one had written a fairy tale about... Tet. Therefore, a collection of modern "ancient Tet" stories was born, with the implication of playing with words and pronunciation similar to "fairy tales". I hope that young people in social networks, robots and airplanes can still encounter a miraculous Tet in food, while sleeping soundly, or even when busy cleaning the house!
What could be more wonderful than when the ancient tradition revives right in the modern world and lets the children "heart" Tet all year round?
Tet and mother
Tet and Mother" by author Nguyen Duong Quynh, is the story of a girl traveling through space back to herself at the age of 7, from there experiencing everything in childhood with a more mature and adulterous view. This is also an opportunity for her to find the lost love and understand herself.
Throughout is the bustling atmosphere of preparing to welcome Tet in the small town of South Central Vietnam when it was still simple and rustic, children eagerly playing Tet, eating delicious food, while adults are busy preparing for repairs and cleaning. The last day of the year is busy with worries and also full of suspense waiting for the moment Tet comes and Spring returns, which is also an opportunity to remind everyone to return to their families and open their hearts to their loved ones.
