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United States. ISBN. 978-0-698-11357-2. OCLC. 50015354. The Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It was originally published in 1938 by Coward-McCann. The book is a retelling of a Chinese folk tale, Ten Brothers.
United States. Chinese Fables and Folk Stories, a compilation of 37 tales, was billed as the first book of Chinese fables ever printed in English when it was published by American Book Company in 1908. [1][2] The co-authors were Mary Hayes Davis and Chow Leung. [1] Widely reprinted today and also translated into French, [3] Chinese Fables and ...
The story is a Chinese version of the popular children's fable "Little Red Riding Hood" as retold by Young.Contrary to the original fable, in which there is only one child (Little Red Riding Hood) who interacts with the nemesis of the story (the wolf), Lon Po Po (Mandarin for "wolf [maternal] grandmother") has three children, and the story is told from their perspective.
Dewey Decimal. 398.27/0951. LC Class. PZ8.1.M8346 Ti. Tikki Tikki Tembo is a 1968 picture book written by Arlene Mosel and illustrated by Blair Lent. [1] The book tells the story of a Chinese boy with a long name who falls into a well. It is an origin myth story about why Chinese names are so short today.
The Wolf of Zhongshan. "The Wolf of Zhongshan" ( Chinese: 中山狼傳; pinyin: Zhōngshān Láng Zhuàn) is a popular Chinese tale that deals with the ingratitude of a creature after being saved. The first print of the story is found in the Ming-dynasty Ocean Stories of Past and Present ( Chinese: 古今說海; pinyin: Gǔjīn Shuōhǎi ...
The Runaway Wok is a children's picture book written by Ying Chang Compestine and illustrated by Sebastia Serra. [1] Published in 2011 by Dutton Children's Books, the story follows a boy named Ming and his adventures with a magical talking wok who grants wishes. [2] [3] The story portrays the rich family as evil and the poor family as heroic.
Bronze and Sunflower. Bronze and Sunflower (Chinese: 青铜葵花) is a Chinese children's novel written by Cao Wenxuan and was first published in 2005. [1] The novel is set in the Cultural Revolution. It is a story of friendship between Bronze, a mute peasant boy, and Sunflower, the young daughter of an artist sent to a May Seventh Cadre School.
Ye Xian. " Ye Xian " (traditional Chinese: 葉 限; simplified Chinese: 叶 限; pinyin: Yè Xiàn; Wade–Giles: Yeh Hsien; [jê ɕjɛ̂n]) is a Chinese fairy tale that is similar to the European Cinderella story, the Malay-Indonesian Bawang Putih Bawang Merah tale, [1] and stories from other ethnic groups including the Tibetans and the ...