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One riddle, one answer
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Lauren Thompson |
A sultan's daughter who loves numbers and riddles devises a plan to find the man who is best suited to be her husband. |
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Ling-li and the phoenix fairy
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Ellin Greene |
Retells a Chinese tale in which a girl's colorful wedding jacket is stolen and torn into pieces, which ultimately become the flowers we know as impatiens. |
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The magical Monkey King
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Ji-li Jiang |
The mischievous Monkey King attempts to achieve immortality the easy way, gains god-like powers, and wreaks havoc in heaven. |
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The Spring of butterflies and other folktales of China's minority peoples
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Neil Philip,Zhao Li,Aiqing Pan,He, Liyi |
A collection of fourteen tales from the Tibetan, Thai, Uighur, Bai, and other non-Chinese people living in China. |
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The weaving of a dream
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Marilee Heyer |
When the beautiful tapestry woven by a poor woman is stolen by fairies, her three sons set out on a magical journey to retrieve it. A retelling of a traditional Chinese tale. |
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All the way to Lhasa
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Barbara Berger |
A boy and his yak persevere along the difficult way to the holy city of Lhasa and succeed where others fail. |
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A Chinese bestiary
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Richard E. Strassberg |
"A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between th… |
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The willow pattern story
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Allan Drummond |
The author retells a story heard as a child, one of many invented to explain the landscape on willow pattern china, popular for the last 200 years. In this, two young Chinese lovers are punished by o… |
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"The Stone lion" and other Chinese detective stories
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Yin-lien C. Chin,Yin-Lien C. Chin,Yetta S. Center,Mildred Ross,Lu Wang |
Presents ten tales featuring Lord Bau, a wise judge who was a champion of righteousness and protector of the weak against the powerful. |
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Traditional Chinese folktales =
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Yin-lien C. Chin,Yetta S. Center,Mildred Ross |
A collection of twelve traditional tales from various parts of China. |
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Transforming Gender and Emotion
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Sookja Cho |
Often called China's "Romeo and Juliet", the story of the Butterfly Lovers (the tale of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, or the Liang-Zhu story) is one of the most famous folk stories in traditional Chi… |
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The sleeper
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David Day |
After sleeping in a cave for two hundred years, a young monk finds that he carries sacred books that can save China in a time of crisis. |
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Monkey and the White Bone Demon
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Jill Morris |
While he is traveling to the Western Heaven in quest of the ancient Buddhist scriptures, the monk Hsuan Tsang is captured by the White Bone Demon and his disciple Monkey tries to rescue him. |
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Just a pile of rice
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Verna Wilkins |
A mysterious stranger shows Master Xhang how to finish the temple he is working on in time for the festival. Includes discussion questions and activities that explore the scientific principles illust… |
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The Lost Horse
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Ed Young |
A retelling of the tale about a Chinese man who owned a marvelous horse and who believed that things were not always as bad, or as good, as they might seem. |
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Lon Po Po
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Ed Young |
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother. |
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Wishbones
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Barbara Ker Wilson |
In this Chinese version of the Cinderella tale, Yeh Hsien uses magic fishbones to dress herself in finery for the Cave Festival, where she loses a slipper in fleeing from her wicked stepmother. |
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The long-haired girl
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Doreen Rappaport |
Ah-mei challenges the God of Thunder so her parched village will have water for planting crops. |
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The Great Race
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Dave Bouchard |
To help her arrange her paper cut-outs of the animals in the Chinese zodiac in the proper order, a young girl's grandmother tells her the story of the race in which each animal secured its place. |
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The moon dragon
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Moira Miller |
Ling Po, the most boastful man in all of China, claims that he can build a kite that will take him to the moon. |
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