China
- McCully, Emily Arnold.
Beautiful
warrior : the legend of the nun's kung fu
Tells the story of two unlikely kung fu masters and how their skill in
martial arts saves them both.
Educ. Res. PS 3563 .A265 B4 19
- Hill, Elizabeth Starr.
Chang
and the bamboo flute
Chang, a mute Chinese boy whose father uses cormorants to fish, becomes a
hero when a heavy rain strands his father's fishing raft.
Educ. Res. SELECT PS 3558 .H35
- Fritz, Jean.
China's
Long March : 6,000 miles of danger
Describes the events of the 6,000 mile march undertaken by Mao Zedong and
his Communist followers as they retreated before the forces of Chiang
Kai-shek.
Educ. Res. DS 777.5134 .F74 19
- Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-
Chinese
Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
Educ. Res. Bushner
CT 275 .M45
- Freedman, Russell.
Confucius
: the golden rule
Educ. Res. B 128 .C8 F73 2002
- Yolen, Jane.
The
emperor and the kite
When the emperor is imprisoned in a high tower,
his smallest daughter, whom he has always ignored, uses her kite to save
him.
Educ. Res. PS 3575 .O43 E5
- Wiese, Kurt, 1887-
Fish
in the air; story and pictures
A tale of what Tai Fung, which means Big Wind,
did to change the ideas of the little Chinese boy named Fish, who had
persuaded his father, Honorable Fish, to buy him the biggest fish shaped
kite he could find.
Educ. Res. PS 3545 .I236 F5
- Casanova, Mary.
The
hunter : a Chinese folktale
After learning to understand the language of animals, Hai
Li Bu the hunter sacrifices himself to save his village.
Educ. Res. GR 342 .C37 2000
- Young, Ed.
Lon
Po Po
: a Red-Riding Hood story from China
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is
disguised as their grandmother.
Educ. Res. PS 3575 .O781 L6 19
- Ho, Minfong.
Maples
in the mist : children's poems from the Tang
Dynasty
A collection of short poems written over 1000 years ago by such poets of
the Tang Dynasty as Li Po, Yin Luan, and Du Mu.
Educ. Res. PL 2658 .E3 M36 199
- Handforth, Thomas, 1897-1948.
Mei Li, by Thomas Handforth ..
Educ. Res. PS 3515 .A49 M4
- Lobel, Arnold.
Ming
Lo moves the mountain
A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain
away from his house.
Educ. Res. Bushner
PS 3562 .O1
- Wu, Ch`eng-en, ca. 1500-ca.
1582.
The monkey
king
Educ. Res. PL 2697 .H713 1965
- Mak, Kam.
My
Chinatown : one year in poems
A boy adjusts to life away from his home in Hong Kong, the Chinatown of his new American city.
Educ. Res. Bushner
PS 3613 .A4
- Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
The
nightingale
Though the emperor banishes the nightingale in preference of a jeweled
mechanical imitation, the little bird remains faithful and returns years
later when the emperor is near death and no one else can help him.
Educ. Res. SELECT PT 8117 .N31
- Mahy, Margaret.
The
seven Chinese brothers
Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary
individual qualities.
Educ. Res. PR 9639.3 .M24 S4 1
- Chrisman, Arthur Bowie, 1889-1953.
Shen of the sea : Chinese
stories for children
Educ. Res. PS 3505 .H875 S5 c.
- Brown, Tricia.
Chinese
New Year
Text and photographs depict the celebration of Chinese New Year by Chinese
Americans living in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Educ. Res. GT 4905 .B76 1997
- O'Connor, Jane.
The
emperor's silent army : terracotta warriors of
Ancient China
Describes the archaeological discovery of thousands of life-sized
terracotta warrior statues in northern China in 1974, and discusses
the emperor who had them created and placed near his tomb.
Educ. Res. DS 747.9 .C47 O26 2
- De Jong, Meindert,
1910-1991.
The
house of sixty fathers
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy
is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his
parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening
days regaining his family and new home.
Educ. Res. PS 3507 .E36 H66
- McCaughrean, Geraldine.
The
kite rider : a novel
In thirteenth-century China,
after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage,
twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing
adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up
meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
Educ. Res. Bushner
PR 6063 .C3
- Provensen, Alice.
The
master swordsman ; & the magic doorway : two
legends from ancient China
In two original stories set in ancient China, Little Chiu masters the
sword and Mu Chi escapes death through his
marvelous painting.
Educ. Res. PS 3531 .R88 M37 20
- Davol, Marguerite W.
The paper
dragon
A humble artist agrees to confront the terrifying
dragon that threatens to destroy his village.
Educ. Res. PS 3554 .A86 P3 199
- Okimoto, Jean Davies.
The
White Swan express : a story about adoption
Across North America, people in four different homes prepare for a special
trip to China, while
four baby girls in China
await their new adoptive parents.
Educ. Res. Bushner
PS 3565 .K4
- Tamarin, Alfred H.
Voyaging
to Cathay : Americans in the China trade
Traces the earliest contacts between the United
States and China from the years following
the American Revolution until the advent of the steamship.
Educ. Res. HF 3120 .T35 1976
- Wolkstein, Diane.
White
wave : a Chinese tale
Kuo Ming's discovery of a moon goddess inside a
snail shell changes his lonely life.
Educ. Res. GR 335 .W65 1996
- Louie, Ai-Ling.
Yeh-Shen :
a Cinderella story from China
This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the
wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a
prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before
the earliest European version.
Educ. Res. GR 335 .L68 1982
- Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman, 1892-1958.
Young
Fu of the upper Yangtze
In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the
bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith
brings good fortune.
Educ. Res. PS 3523 .E935 Y6 c.