In Korea in the early 1800s, news from the countryside reached the king by means of signal fires. On one mountaintop after another, a fire was lit when all was well. If the king did not see a fire, that meant trouble, and he would send out his army. When his father is unable to light the fire one night, young Sang-hee must take his place. Sang-hee knows how important it is for the fire to be lit, but he wishes that he could see soldiers just once.
Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness.
Yue, a Chinese merchant, discovers the wisdom in passing along kindness, when Bear Face, the huge hairy man Yue has befriended, saves his life.
This book introduces Japanese words from A to Z. Book is designed to be read from back to front and from right to left.
Good Wu marries a young woman who can change herself into a shell. Because of this ability, a cruel ruler wishes to own her. In order to escape and save herself and her husband, she must perform three wonders.
This book retells the Japanese folktale about how the beckoning cat became a symbol of luck and prosperity in Japan.
Children will love the rhyming text and the humorous tale of the mischievous Bonnie Mcsmithers.
A descriptive story based in Nova Scotia. The author gives a portrayal of life by the sea through the eyes of a cat.
Retells the story of King Christian X and the Danish resistance to the Nazis during World War II.
See the review at WOW Review, Volume 3, Issue 2
The author describes Christmas at his grandmother’s apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez’s portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.