Laurence Yep, Author G. P. Putnam's Sons $16.99 (216p) ISBN 978-0-399-23041-7
Laurence Yep continues the adventures of Chinese-American ballet student Robin Lee, previously met in Ribbons and The Cook's Family, in Angelfish, a twist on ""Beauty and the Beast."" Robin has just landed the role of Beauty in a ballet recital...
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (313p) ISBN 978-0-06-020302-3
Monkey opens this narration--part of the saga of the dragons' efforts to reclaim their home--where the events of Dragon Cauldron left off: he and his companions are captives of the Boneless King and the traitorous dragon Pomfret. After several...
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16 (237p) ISBN 978-0-06-021494-4
``If there is one animal that is synonymous with Asian mythology and art--and the heart--it is the dragon,'' writes Yep ( The Rainbow People , Drag on wings ), who adds that when Asians came to America, ``these dragons left their tracks as they...
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Laurence Yep, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74160-0
In this somewhat desultory but affecting autobiography, Yep ( Dragonwings ) describes himself as a collection of disparate puzzle pieces: a Chinese-American raised in a black neighborhood, a child too American to fit into Chinatown and too Chinese...
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Laurence Yep, Author Arbor House $15.95 (219p) ISBN 978-0-87795-831-4
Godzilla makes an unruly pet, as teenage Piper Kincaid learns when his geneticist father hatches a monster a foot high to prove it's possible. (On the command, ""Tokyo,'' the little beast breathes fire.) Even so, Dr. Kincaid's fledgling business on...
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Laurence Yep, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0670-6
In a sequel to Cockroach Cooties by Laurence Yep, Teddy's uncle gives him a weekend camping trip as a birthday present, transforming him into a Skunk Scout when he gets sprayed by the offender in the woods. ""Why would anyone leave Chinatown? It...
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperCollins $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-027522-8
Laurence Yep's Golden Mountain Chronicles-which traces the experiences of the Youngs, a Chinese family, over several generations in America (the publisher includes in the series Dragonwings, Dragon's Gate and Child of the Owl, among others)-conti
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Laurence Yep, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-036003-5
Based on the author's own experiences, this Christopher Award winner movingly describes a Chinese American family's adjustment to their new home in West Virginia in 1927 and the prejudice they encounter there. Ages 10-14. (Aug.)
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Laurence Yep, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0487-0
""There are two kinds of people in this world--the bullies and the victims,"" Teddy tells his younger brother, Bobby; the two have just incurred the wrath of their schoolmate Arnie, better known as Arnie-zilla. ""Guess which bunch we belong to?""...
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Laurence Yep, Author Putnam Publishing Group $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-698-11804-1
This sequel to Ribbons takes a further searching and funny look at Chinese-American family life. Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
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Laurence Yep, Author Scholastic $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-20832-1
Yep's account of the bombing of Hiroshima and its devastating aftermath is at once chilling and searing, hushed and thundering. Within a factual framework, the author sets the fictional story of a girl named Sachi, allegedly a composite of several...
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Laurence Yep, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-399-22906-0
Yep fumbles with this strained tale about an 11-year-old girl who yearns to dance. The star of her ballet class, Robin Lee has to give up her lessons at Madame Oblamov's academy when her mother imposes a draconian budget on the household, in order...
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperCollins $16.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-688-09365-5
Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee tells of her family's hard-won acceptance as the first Chinese-Americans in a small West Virginia town. It is 1927, and few in Clarksburg have the breadth of experience or spirit to offer foreigners their friendship. The...
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Laurence Yep. Tor/Starscape, $15.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1924-1
They couldn't be more different: 12-year-old Scirye is the well-traveled daughter of a noble family from the ancient Kushan empire in central Asia. Leech, also 12, is a boy of the streets who trusts no one. And Bayang is only disguised as human...
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Laurence Yep, Author Paperstar Book $5.99 (179p) ISBN 978-0-698-11606-1
A young Chinese American dancer is forced to give up her ballet lessons so her family can pay for her grandmother to emigrate. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperTrophy $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-440489-1
This 1994 Newbery Honor Book, a prequel to Dragonwings, tells of 14-year-old Otter's 1865 emigration from China and subsequent travails in California. Ages 10-up. (May)
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Laurence Yep, Author . HarperTrophy $6.99 (245p) ISBN 978-0-06-440788-5
A teen and her younger siblings itch to accept their neighbor's invitation to a Christmas party; their parents, however think they should be celebrating Chinese holidays, "not American ones." PW
wrote, "Memorable characterizations...
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Laurence Yep, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-001013-3
"A very few must protect the many, and with no thanks for their efforts." An ominous portent for an eighth grade boy, but that's the lesson at the heart of this original fairy tale, in which Yep (Dragon of the Lost Sea) once again...
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Laurence Yep, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (184p) ISBN 978-0-06-001015-7
PW
called this novel starring a boy, a dragon and a monkey (among others) who attempt to secure and protect a fabled phoenix egg, an "original fairy tale that successfully mixes fantasy and Chinese history." Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperCollins $6.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-440336-8
Growing up in San Francisco in the '60s, young Casey hears of her Chinese heritage and the mother she never knew from her grandmother, Paw Paw. Ages 12-up. (Oct.)
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Laurence Yep, Harper, $15.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-025315-8
Drawing from his rich cache of childhood memories, Yep (The Dragon's Child) offers an affectionate celebration of family, cultural traditions, and San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 1950s. Like his beloved, bighearted Uncle Chester, eight-year-ol
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Laurence Yep, Author HarperCollins $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-440227-9
Yep's sweeping fantasy tells of Shimmer, an exiled dragon princess, who must team up with a boy to try to restore her dragon clan's lost home. Ages 10-14. (June)
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Laurence Yep, Author, Kazuhiko Sano, Illustrator . Pleasant/American Girl $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58485-519-4
Part of the Girls of Many Lands series, this colorful novel introduces the spirited 12-year-old Chou Spring Pearl against the backdrop of Canton, China, during the Opium War of 1857. The recently orphaned girl has been liberally raised by her artist
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Laurence Yep, Author, Jeanne M. Lee, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-374-31003-5
Drawn from the writings of Chuang Tzu, the fourth-century B.C. thinker sometimes called the Butterfly Philosopher, this delicate prose poem tells of ``a boy who dreamed he was a butterfly and, as a butterfly, he always dreamed he was a boy.'' Though
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Laurence Yep, Author, Kathleen S. Yep, With . HarperCollins $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-027692-8
This short novel about a father and son's journey from rural China to San Francisco in 1922 will firmly grip the target audience. The nine-year-old narrator, who is modeled on Laurence Yep's (Dragonwings
) father, describes his shy...
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Laurence Yep, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator HarperTrophy $8.99 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-440441-9
Grouped under such auspicious headings as Tricksters,'' ``Fools and Vices and Virtues,'' these 20 Chinese folktales afford entertainment and subtle messages. Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Laurence Yep, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-026760-5
The sections into which these 20 stories are grouped--``Tricksters,'' ``Fools,'' ``Virtues and Vices,'' ``In Chinese-America'' and ``Love,''--offer readers a way to pick and choose their ways through the stories. But the best way to read this book...
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Laurence Yep, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator, David Wiesner, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-06-022470-7
Noted children's author Yep ( The Rainbow People ; The Star Fisher ) scrupulously culls numerous early Chinese American tales, most of them collected as part of a 1930s WPA project in Oakland's Chinatown, and gracefully retells them, weaving...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Kam Mak, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024381-4
For aficionados of the ""Beauty and the Beast"" theme, this Southern Chinese adaptation of a traditional Chinese tale gains notability through Yep's (Dragonwings) elegant, carefully crafted storytelling. Seven, the seventh and youngest daughter of a
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Laurence Yep, Author, Kam Mak, Illustrator, Kam Mak, Narrated by HarperCollins $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443518-5
""This Southern Chinese adaptation of a traditional Chinese tale gains notability through Yep's elegant, carefully crafted storytelling,"" said PW. Ages 5-8. (Feb.)
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Laurence Yep, Author, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator Scholastic $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-47204-3
Drawing on a classic Chinese ghost story, Yep delivers a lively, shivery tale in which a nine-year-old boy tests his wits against those of a powerful ghost fox. The stakes are high: the ghost fox is intent on stealing Little Lee's mother's soul....
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Laurence Yep, Author, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-46168-9
Little Chou leads a poor but honest life with his widowed mother. When he comes across a basket of silver, he tries to return it, but the owner refuses, knowing that the silver is tainted by the curse of an evil ku snake. Determined not to inflict...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-47865-6
``Once there was a boy with the saddest face in the world. Even when he was happy, everyone who saw him thought he must be sad, and they became sad, too.'' Embellishing the memory of an disfigured, outcast boy of his childhood with folklore from...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator , illus. by Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng. Scholastic $5.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-48390-2
PW
said that this story about a cocky peasant who sets out to win the hand of the Khan's daughter "embraces human foibles with both the ageless charm of a traditional tale and the informal breeziness of a modern sensibility." Ages 4-7.
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Laurence Yep, Author, Mou-Sien Tseng, Illustrator, Jean Tseng, Illustrator Scholastic $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-48389-6
In this humorous folktale, a cocky peasant, Mongke, sets out to win the hand of the Khan's daughter, and is given the requisite series of trials to prove his worth. He prevails, but not because he is particularly clever or brave. The Khan's daughter,
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Laurence Yep, Author, Benrei Huang, Illustrator, Benrei Huang, Photographer HarperCollins Children's Books $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-027688-1
Jim's Grandpop is widely known as the meanest man in Chinatown, and Jim is afraid of him. But then he meets the Imp, a truly nasty Chinese genie who has escaped from a dug-up vase. The Imp is out to wreck Jim and his family with his destructive...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Suling Wang, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-028199-1
The setting for this appealing contemporary tale is San Francisco's Chinatown, the same as for Yep's simultaneously released Cockroach Cooties (reviewed Feb. 14), but here Yep mixes in elements of fantasy and fairy tale, as in his The Imp Who Ate My
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Laurence Yep, Author, Suling Wang, Illustrator . HarperTrophy $4.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-440852-3
Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, this novel mixes elements of fantasy and fairy tale as an eight-year-old boy gets a paintbrush that transforms his dreary life. "Snappy dialogue, realistic characters and plenty of wise humor keep the...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Suling Wang, Illustrator , illus. by Suling Wang. HarperCollins $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-029325-3
Yep leaves his oft-visited literary stomping grounds of San Francisco's Chinatown in this heartwarming historical tale based on real events. Ursula loves living in tiny Whistle, Mont., or what her Pa calls the Back of Beyond. She helps her...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Yep, Author, Isadore Seltzer, Illustrator Troll Communications $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3030-8
As he did in The Shell Woman & the King (reviewed July 12), Newbery Honor author Yep again reinvigorates a centuries-old Chinese tale. The hero, Sung, aptly dressed in red, is so fearless he picnics in graveyards and naps in haunted houses. ``We are
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Laurence Yep, Author, Yep, Author, Robert Van Nutt, Illustrator Troll Communications $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3454-2
Yep (The Man Who Tricked a Ghost) here gracefully wraps a 17th-century Chinese fable in a zestful style that speaks immediately to readers and vivifies its moral-that ``those at the top should help those at the bottom.'' Merchant Yue learned that...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Yep, Author, Robert Roth, Illustrator Troll Communications $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3464-1
This zesty retelling of a Shantung folktale is as expertly executed as Yep's (Tree of Dreams) previous picture books. When a beggar asks a selfish old woman for a bite of her bean curd, she replies, ``I'm a tiger when I'm famished./ So begone, old...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Isadore Seltzer, Illustrator Bridgewater Books $13.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8167-3498-6
""Dreaming is a bond that unites us-beyond language and custom, beyond geography and time itself,"" writes Yep (Dragon's Gate; Child of the Owl) in his preface to this intriguing collection. Culled from several cultures and many centuries, the 10...
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Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder, illus. by Mary GrandPré. Crown, $15.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-385-39228-0
In this series launch, Yep (the Dragon quartet), collaborating for the first time with his wife, Ryder (Won’t You Be My Kissaroo?), again conjures up a world where dragons and humans interact, and the results are heartwarming and quite funny. Miss...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Yang Ming-Yi, Illustrator Dial Books $13.89 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1395-6
When Uncle Wu marries the beautiful Shell, who is of the sea and can assume the form of a seashell at will, he cannot resist bragging about her, and word soon reaches the realm's greedy, cruel king. The ruler imprisons Wu, vowing to kill him and...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Eric Valasquez, Author, Eric Valasquez, Illustrator Hyperion Books $13.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0059-9
Adopting a light tone far removed from the solemnity of Hiroshima (see boxed review, page 297), Yep trains his attention on a close-knit family in San Francisco's Chinatown. Teddy's mother, insisting that he put some effort into choosing a birthday...
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Laurence Yep, Author, Nicholas Krenitsky, Illustrator HarperCollins $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-024444-6
Yep (The Khan's Daughter, reviewed above) is off to a roaring start with this launch to a mystery series set in San Francisco's Chinatown. As it begins, 12-year-old Lily's glamorous great-aunt (""Tiger Lil"") comes to visit from Hollywood. A...
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