Ed Young
21) Hook
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A chick hatched by hens turns out to be an eaglet who must get help from a boy in learning how to fly.
23) What about me?
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A young boy determinedly follows the instructions of the Grand Master in the hope of gaining knowledge, only to be surprised as how he acquires it. Based on a Sufi tale.
25) Donkey trouble
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In this retelling of the traditional fable, a kind but simple man and his grandson, on their way to market with their donkey, find it impossible to please everyone they meet.
29) Little Plum
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An old Chinese couple has a son who never grows any larger than a plum seed, but his size does not prevent him from saving his village from a cruel lord.
30) Red thread
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Early one morning Wei Gu meets an old man from the spirit world who tells the young bachelor about his future bride and their life together.
31) Night visitors
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Retelling of a Chinese folktale in which a young scholar learns respect for all forms of life when he becomes part of an ant colony in a dream.
32) Nighttime Ninja
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"Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure."--
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Reseña del editor: Había una vez, hace mucho tiempo, una mujer que vivía en el campo junto a sus tres hijas. En el día del cumpleaños de su abuela, la buena madre partió para verla, dejando a las niñas solas en casa. Pero un viejo lobo había visto salir a la madre, así que al anochecer, y disfrazado de señora mayor, se acercó a la casa y tocó en la puerta: ¡Toc! ¡Toc!#x85; Una versión ancestral china de la Caperucita Roja narrada e...
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Nebŏlaendŭ Segye kŏlchak kŭrim ch'aek volume 108
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Korean
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Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice. Suggested level: junior.
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Once there was a little slip of a boy who roamed the streets of London, hungry for life (and maybe a bit of bread). His dad long gone and his actress mother ailing, five-year-old Charlie found himself onstage one day taking his mum's place, singing and drawing laughs amid a shower of coins. There were times in the poorhouse and times spent sitting in the window at home with Mum, making up funny stories about passersby. And when Charlie described a...
38) Wabi Sabi
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Wabi Sabi, a cat living in the city of Kyoto, learns about the Japanese concept of beauty through simplicity as she asks various animals she meets about the meaning of her name.
39) Bird & Diz
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Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
40) White Fang
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Explore the dangerous and ruthless animal world--and the equally violent human one--in this Scribner Classics keepsake edition of Jack London's renowned wolf tale. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and all brute, fighting to survive in the frozen north. But when he gradually comes under the spell of man's companionship during the Klondike gold rush in the nineteenth century, how much will he surrender? This collectible edition of a revered classic,...