Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Chinese Culture Reading Booklist

Children’s Chinese Stories and Tales

*The Five Chinese Brothers (Claire Bishop)
*The Story About Ping
(Marjorie Flack)
*Empty Pot (Demi)
*Tikki Tikki Tembo (Arlene Mosel)
*Beyond the Great Mountains: A Visual Poem About China (Ed Young)
*Dim Sum for Everyone (Grace Lin)
*Daisy Comes Home (Jan Brett)
*Fortune Cookie Fortunes (Grace Lin)
*The City of Dragons (Laurence Yep)
*Carlos Digs to China (Jan Stevens)

*Marco Polo: Overland to Medieval China (Clint Twist)
*Imperial China-From the Creators of the Magic School Bus (Cole)
*The Yangtze (Julia Waterlow)
*The Panda Book (Levine)
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night (Song Nan Zhang)
The Children of China: an Artist's Journey (Song Nan Zhang)
Yikang's Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a Chinese Village (Sungwan So)
Awakening the Dragon: The dragon Boat Festival (Arlene Chan)
Celebrating Chinese Year (Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith)
Chin Chiang and the Dragon's Dance (Ian Wallace)
Dragonwings (Laurence Yep)

The Legend of the Panda (Linda Granfield)
Marco Polo: A Journey through China (Fiona MacDonald)
The Silk Route - 7,000 miles of history (retold by John S. Major)
Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts Festivals of China (Stepanchuk & Wong)
Moon Festival (Ching Yeung Russell)
Red Eggs & Dragon Boats (
Carol Stepanchuk)
Three Monks, No Water (Ting-Xing Ye)
The Warlord's Puzzle (Virginia Pilegard) -
Famous story of Tanagrams

Some Books by Demi:
*Kites : Magic Wishes That Fly Up to The Sky
*The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Tale Set in China
*Dragons and Fantastic Creatures
*The Greatest Treasure


* These are the books we’ve actually read and enjoyed. The others sound wonderful but were not available at our library. I hope to find The Warlord’s Puzzle since it’s a story about tanagrams. I also didn't include the books that looked more like reference books. I tried to stay with living books, stories and tales. But the resource books were very helpful. We just enjoyed the story/picture books more.

In January we will be traveling to ...... Turkey!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

As a grandmother to homeschoolers and the author of the Warlord's Puzzle I am tickled to find my book listed here. Complementary study guides are available for download at www.virginiapilegard.com Perhaps the best prices to be found for my books are in Amazon's used books. Blessings on your endeavor! Virginia

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