In China, more than 100 million migrant workers labor far from home and only return to their families for a few days at New Year's, which landed on January 23 in 2012. Writer Yu Li-Qiong and gifted illustrator Zhu Cheng-Liang have created a fascinating glimpse of this way of life in a story about Maomo, a little girl who delights in being with her father during China's New Year's festivities. She accompanies when he gets his hair cut so that "everything will go smoothly in the coming year." The family makes sticky rice balls, enjoys the firecrackers, and watch a little bit of a parade with a dragon dance. Her father gives Maomo a fortune coin. By the time, he is ready to leave, she gives him a gift which will remind him of their life together in love.

A New Year's Reunion is a cross-cultural gem that depicts the festivities of the Chinese New Year and the preciousness of family time. Children of any country will empathize with little Maomo as she enjoys her father's presence.