In China in the 1940s, ten-year-old Ying sells her handmade bamboo chicken fences to make money to attend a school camping trip, but no one understands why she instead uses her earnings to buy a dead hen from the grandmother of a drowned classmate.
Asia
Materials from Asia
Child Bride
An eleven-year-old girl is sent to her grandmother’s village for an arranged marriage, and tries every method she can think of to escape her fate.
Saraswati’s Way
Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
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Dorje’s Stripes
Dorje is a beautiful Royal Bengal tiger but he has no stripes. In a small Buddhist monastery in Tibet, Master Wu explains the reasons behind Dorje’s missing stripes, and offers hope for the future.
The Dog Who Loved Red
Raja loves red! Red slippers, red shawls, red socks… But when he spots his friend Champs lost red ball in Mr. Mehtas garden, he has to brave a whole rainbow of obstacles to recover the ball and save the day!
We Live In China
Travel the world in this new series of illustrated books, and see each country through the eyes of the children that live there!Meet Meihua, a girl from Beijing; Shuilin, from a smaller province; and Sem Dui, a boy from Tibet. Learn about China’s school system, traditions, history, religion, and culture—just by spending a day with these children. With illustrations and photographs throughout, featuring some of the most important architecture and historical figures of the region, this book provides a great introduction to Chinese culture. Travel the world in this new series of illustrated books, and see each country through the eyes of the children that live there!Meet Meihua, a girl from Beijing; Shuilin, from a smaller province; and Sem Dui, a boy from Tibet. Learn about China’s school system, traditions, history, religion, and culture—just by spending a day with these children. With illustrations and photographs throughout, featuring some of the most important architecture and historical figures of the region, this book provides a great introduction to Chinese culture.
Good Morning China
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CHINA. Playing, exercising, resting under a lotus tree: the things happening in an ordinary park on an ordinary morning. Early morning, and a community is coming to life. Children are playing, an artist is painting, people are exercising and meditating. Each page in this lovely picure book presents a snap-shot, and a final foldout spread collects them all to give a panorama of daily life in China. Hu yong Yi’s paintings are saturated with color and rich in life and feeling.
Moshimoshikawaii: Where is Strawberry Moshi?
Invites the reader to find different Moshis, which are small white rabbits that love to wear different outfits, in a variety of scenes as Strawberry Moshi prepares for a ball.
Shadow
An imaginative girl plays with shadows in the attic. Items and actions take on lives of their own, and malignant forces appear. But the heroine prevails: Animals join forces, friendships are formed and all ends well come suppertime.
Cat And Rat: The Legend Of The Chinese Zodiac
To select the animals of the zodiac, the Jade Emperor has called for a race between all the animals, in an elegant new twist on an old folktale filled with stunning artwork.