Li Jian. Better Link Press (Tuttle, dist.), $16.95 (42p) ISBN 978-1-6022-0978-7
Newcomer Jian retells a Chinese legend well-timed for 2012, the year of the Water Dragon. Ah Bao, a country boy, finds a lucky red stone that supplies him with more rice and money than he can use, but that also dries up all the rain. He dreams of a...
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Li Jian. Better Link, $16.95 (42p) ISBN 978-1-60220-453-9
In this addition to the Stories of the Chinese Zodiac series, a pig brother describes a dream about an elderly man in English and Chinese: “He asked me to prepare sweet rice cakes for him before the Minor Spring Festival.” Later, he and his siblings
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Li Jian. Better Link (Tuttle, dist.), $16.95 (44p) ISBN 978-1-60220-986-2
This bilingual offering adapts the centuries-old folk song “The Ballad of Mulan.” Washed with pale blues, reds, tans, and greens, Li’s artwork offers a strong connection to both the setting and to traditional styles of Chinese ink painting. English-s
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Li Jian, trans. from the Chinese by Yijin Wert. Better Link (Tuttle, dist.), $16.95 (42p) ISBN 978-1-60220-995-4
In this addition to the bilingual Stories of the Chinese Zodiac series, an anxious mother embroiders a rooster onto her son’s clothing to protect him as he travels to the Capital City to take his exams. During Yun’s long journey, the magical rooster
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