Ed Young
21) 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.
24) 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.
25) 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.
30) Tsunami!
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A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
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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...
32) 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,...
33) Moon bear
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Moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, get their name from the white moon-shaped blaze on their chests. Sadly, there are more moon bears in captivity than in the wild, as the animals are being farmed for their commercially valuable bile. This text pays tribute to the endangered species.
38) Seven fathers
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A lone traveler, tired, hungry, and cold, finds a house and asks for a room for the night, but the old man to whom he speaks refers him to his father, and that man to his father, until he is finally rewarded for his efforts by the eldest.
39) Desert song
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As the heat of the desert day fades into night, various nocturnal animals, including bats, coyotes, and snakes, venture out to find food.