fun things to do with kids in shanghai china - family travel    
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    Shanghai
Shanghai is a great city for kids to explore, from the top of the pink Oriental Pearl TV Tower overlooking the skyline, to classical Chinese gardens and zig-zag bridges, to boats on the Huangpu River, there's always something new to see. You'll also find Shanghai is a crossroads – the largest port in China, the city is hopping with a unique blend of old and new, east and west, Europe and Asia, the latest high-tech innovations and oldest traditions.
   
   
    Maglev train – From Pudong Airport, everyone in the famiy will enjoy a ride the futuristic-looking Maglev train to the outskirts of Shanghai (Longyang Rd. Metro station). The ride won't take long, 30km in 8 min. Inside the train, look up to see how fast you're going (kilometers per hour). Kids will have first-hand experience for those middle school science projects on magnetic levitation trains. Train go every 20 min, from 8:30am - 5:30pm.
    Shanghai Acrobatic TroupeThis is a spectacular show for kids, dazzling color, magic effects, juggling, balancing acts, and amazing, "pretzel-like" acrobatics. Shows are every evening at the Shanghai Center Theatre at 7:30pm. Click here for the schedule.
kids books china shanghai
     
Operation Red Jericho - China kids books  
Operation Red Jericho
Joshua Mowll

Exciting "mission impossible," set in 1920's Shanghai and the South China Sea, brother and sister Doug and Becca MacKenzie team up with warriors from an ancient fighting order to combat warlord Sheng-Fat in his island fortress. Included from the secret archive, fold-out maps, Doug's sketches, mysterious diagrams, Becca's journal entries, and period photographs. An original adventure, and fun reading. (Chapter book)

The story continues in Operation Typhoon Shore!

 

     
Shanghai Messenger
Andrea Cheng, Ed Young

A Chinese American girl takes a trip to Shanghai to visit her extended family for the first time – Auntie makes wontons, her cousin plays the accordion, an old lady tends her goldfish in the courtyard, Uncle paints on a paper fan, giving a little bit of China with his words. (Picture book)

 

 
Shanghai Messenger
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