China’s Bravest Girl: The Legend of Hua Mu Lan told by Charlie Chin, illustrated by Tomie Arai [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
04 Mar, by in Bilingual, Biography, Children/Picture Books, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
Disguised as a man, Hua Mu Lan takes her elderly father’s place in the Emperor’s army and becomes a legendary warrior. Even after years of fighting, none of her comrades realize her...
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Elaine moves to a small town in Iowa from big city San Francisco. Suddenly she feels like an outsider, being the only Asian American student in her school....
The emperor levies a new tax on his subjects – to be paid in crickets because he loves to watch cricket matches. The farmer Cheng Ming finds a promising cricket, but his son, Wei...
Told not to touch anything in either her grandmother’s or her uncle’s adjacent Chinatown stores, a little girl still manages to have fun.
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