Relates how the Jade Emperor chose twelve animals to represent the years in his calendar. Also discusses the Chinese calendar, zodiac, the qualities associated with each animal, and what animal rules the year in which the reader was born.
When a father mouse goes to the sun, cloud, wind, and wall in search of the strongest husband for his daughter, he is surprised to find that a mouse is the best match.
Relates the folktale about Sima Guang and how he broke his family's precious gang full of water after another child had fallen into it and was drowning.
When the beautiful tapestry woven by a poor woman is stolen by fairies, her three sons set out on a magical journey to retrieve it. A retelling of a traditional Chinese tale.
An old woman spends years weaving, day and night, until one day she reveals a magical cloth. But, moments later, the cloth mysteriously disappears! Now her three young sons must set out on a long, mystical journey to find it. In graphic novel format.
Retells three Chinese folk tales, including stories about a fisherman who outwits his greedy landlord, a child-eating monster who is bested by a kindhearted little girl, and a girl whose rich father marries her to a pauper.
A folktale based on a poem from the Sung Dynasty in which a young girl disguises herself as a man and leads the army of China to victory over the enemy.
Presents a collection of thirty Chinese folktales as told by an aged Chinese grandmother to her grandchildren in order to share her culture's traditional tales and legends.
Monkey, a trickster, encounters many other creatures, some friendly and some dangerous, and the reader makes choices that help keep Monkey out of harm's way.
Frightened into sleeplessness by the noisy celebration of the Chinese New Year, a young girl takes comfort in her grandmother's soothing story of a dragon, a mother's sorrow, and Buddha.
When a young boy is turned into a dragon after swallowing a pearl he received from a magic fish, his tears create the twenty-four lakes of the River Min.
When the Great Emperor of All China commands him to carve a Dragon of Wind and Fire in a piece of perfect jade, Chan Lo discovers the stone wants to be something else.