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Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

Meet Your Match! An Illustrated Guide to the 12 Signs
Brief Description
The ultimate guide to the Chinese Zodiac, featuring fun facts, frame-worthy illustrations, and a choose your own adventure-style quiz to find your perfect zodiac match! Are you a patient Ox, a brave Tiger, or a friendly Pig? It’s time to meet your match! This joyful celebration... Read More
Format: Hardback
$2995
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The ultimate guide to the Chinese Zodiac, featuring fun facts, frame-worthy illustrations, and a choose your own adventure-style quiz to find your perfect zodiac match!

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The ultimate guide to the Chinese Zodiac, featuring fun facts, frame-worthy illustrations, and a choose your own adventure-style quiz to find your perfect zodiac match!

Are you a patient Ox, a brave Tiger, or a friendly Pig? It’s time to meet your match!

This joyful celebration of cultural traditions offers a funny, interactive, and beautifully illustrated introduction to the Chinese Zodiac for curious kids ages 6-9. Readers will meet the twelve animals of the Zodiac – from the powerful Dragon to the energetic Horse – each with its own personality traits and traditions. But, there’s a twist! While Zodiac animals are determined by birth year, readers can also take the book’s playful flowchart quiz to discover which animal truly matches their personality, reminding them that, ultimately, no label can define them.

Spanning nearly 70 pages, Animals of the Chinese Zodiac is packed with fascinating facts and vibrant storytelling. A fold-out retelling of The Great Race legend reveals how the twelve animals earned their place in the Zodiac, while lively profiles introduce each animal’s strengths, lucky numbers, best friendships, possible future careers, and more. Ping Zhu’s lavish hand-painted illustrations are bold, colourful, and expressive, and the book’s eye-catching foiled cover makes it a perfect gift to be treasured for years to come.

Whether welcoming Lunar New Year or learning about the Chinese Zodiac for the first time, this essential, authentic, and unique book brings an ancient tradition to life for a new generation.

Age range: 6-9

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837292899

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 October 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Illustration: 68 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • By Ping Zhu

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 275.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 68

About the Author

Teresa Robeson is a Chinese-Canadian-American author of children's books, and an artist, with a focus on science, nature, and her cultural voice and heritage. Her work has won the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Picture Book Award, a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Recommendation, and an International Reading Association Nonfiction Picture Book Honor, plus other awards, lists, and starred reviews.

Ping Zhu is a Chinese-American artist based in Brooklyn, whose work is frequently seen in The New York Times. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, in 2013 she received the ADC Young Guns award. Her children’s book debut, The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor: A Life (2020), was selected by The New York Times as one of the Best Children’s Books of the year.

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