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.