Gareth received a wonderful book for his birthday that we’ve now read through several times (and I’ve caught both boys looking at it solo too): My Pet Dragon: A Story about Adventure, Friendship and Chinese Characters by Christoph Niemann. The story is engaging enough: a young girl gets a pet baby dragon, who runs away and she sets off to find him, meeting various people in various locations along the way. But the coolest thing about the book is that you learn to read some Chinese writing! Even as an adult you come away learning something from this picture book....