In a garden near Beijing, five peas in a shell grow and wait to discover what fate has in store for them.
China
Materials from China
At the Beach
When Xiao Ming goes with his mother to the beach, he likes to splash in the water and dry off in the sun just like everyone else. But his favorite thing to do is to draw in the sand with a stick. Today, his mother is helping him learn Chinese. Xiao Ming thinks writing Chinese characters is just like drawing pictures.
The Seven Chinese Sisters
When a dragon snatches the youngest of seven talented Chinese sisters, the other six come to her rescue, in a delightfully illustrated update of a classic Chinese folktale.
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Little Ching And Hu Tzu Guard The Cornfield
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The Kite Rider: A Novel
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a bad second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and meets the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
Buddha In The Garden
After a small boy is adopted by monks at a Buddhist temple, he spends his time tending the temple gardens and discovering the nature of enlightenment.
China Under Communism
This history of modern China covers the origins, founding, and development of the country’s Communist regime and examines the forces that are pushing the country–nuclear power and the home of a fifth of the world’s population–toward change.
Daisy Comes Home
Daisy, an unhappy hen in China, floats down the river in a basket and has an adventure.
First Apple
The author describes 1940s China and her quest, as a nine-year-old girl, to buy a precious apple for her grandmother’s birthday. By the author of A Day on a Shrimp Boat.
The Year Of The Panda
A Chinese boy rescues a starving baby panda, and, in the process, learns why pandas are endangered, and what the government is doing to save them.