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Cover of Lemon Butterfly featuring an illustration of a white horse on a black background.

Lemon Butterfly

Cao Wenxuan

Roger Mello (Illustrator)

Lemon Butterfly. Cao Wenxuan. Illustrated by Roger Mello. Reycraft Books, 2020. ISBN 9781478869757. 32 p. (Ages 4-9).

Cover of The Moose of Ewenki featuring a detailed illustration of a moose's head peeking into frame from the left on a cream background. The book's title is displayed in teal and the author and illustrator's names are displayed in green.

The Moose of Ewenki

Gerelchimeg Blackcrane

The Moose of Ewenki. Gerelchimeg Blackcrane. Translated by Helen Mixter. Illustrated by Jiu Er. Greystone Kids, 2019. Originally published as Ewenke de tuo lu in Chinese, by Jie Li Chu Ban She, Nanning, 2018. ISBN 9781771645386. 68 p. (Ages 5-9). Picture book.

Cover for A New Year's Reunion featuring an illustration of a family at a table eating soup. The child is holding up a coin to her two parents. The background is red and the title is gold.

A New Year's Reunion

Li Qiong Yu

Zhu Chen Liang (Illustrator)

A New Year’s Reunion. Li Qiong Yu. Illustrated by Zhu Chen Liang. Candlewick Press, 2011. Originally published in China, in 2008. ISBN 9780763667481. 40 p. (Ages 3-7). Picture book.

Cover of Playing with Lanterns featuring an illustration of four children holding lanterns on a snowy night with houses in the background and fireworks in the sky behind them.

Playing with Lanterns

Wang Yage

Helen Wang (Translator)

Zhu Chengliang (Illustrator)

Playing with Lanterns. Wang Yage. Translated by Helen Wang. Illustrated by Zhu Chengliang. Amazon Crossing Kids, 2021. ISBN 9781542029841. 40 p. (Ages 5-8). Picture book.

Cover for The Story of Ink and Water featuring a watercolor illustration in black and nude on a cream background suggesting two young children and an animal running by.

The Story of Ink and Water

Li Qingye

Chun Zhang (Translator)

Peilong Liang (Illustrator)

The Story of Ink and Water. Li Qingye. Translated by Chun Zhang. Illustrated by Peilong Liang. Balestier Press, 2018. Originally published in China in 2013. ISBN 9781911221074. 36 p. (Ages 3 and up+).

Cover of Bronze and Sunflower featuring an illustration of two kids, a boy and a girl, riding on the back of a water buffalo who is wading through a rice paddy. In the background is a rural landscape, houses, mountains, and birds.

Bronze and Sunflower

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Meilo So (Illustrator)

Bronze and Sunflower. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Illustrated by Meilo So. Candlewick, 2017. Originally published by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing in China, and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2015. ISBN 9780763688165. 400 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

Cover of Dragonfly Eyes featuring an illustration of tree branches with red flowers in the foreground and a building inn the background in blue. The title is in large purple letters within a lighter purple cloud.

Dragonfly Eyes

Cao Wenxuan

Helen Wang (Translator)

Dragonfly Eyes. Cao Wenxuan. Translated by Helen Wang. Candlewick, 2022. Originally published in China by by Phoenix Juvenile and Children’s Publishing and then released by Candlewick sister company Walker Books in the UK in 2021. ISBN 9781536200188. 384 p. (Ages 9-12.) Fiction.

Cover of Monkey King: Journey to the West featuring an illustration of a monkey in king-like clothing riding on a lotus brandishing a staff. In the background is a temple, a mountain, and a textured yellow background of a dragon.

Monkey King: Journey to the West

Wu Cheng'en

Julia Lovell (Translator)

Monkey King: Journey to the West. Wu Cheng’en. Translated by Julia Lovell. Forward by Gene Luen Yang. Penguin Books, 2021. ISBN 9780143107187. 339 p. (Ages 12 and up). Epic.

Cover of My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder featuring an illustration of what appears to be a mailman on a bike with a young child riding with him. They are biking through an alleyway lined with trees and ornate houses.

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder

Nie Jun

Edward Gauvin (Translator)

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder. Nie Jun. Translated from French and Chinese by Edward Gauvin. Graphic Universe, 2018. First published as Les contes de la ruelle in French, in 2016. ISBN 9781541526426., 128 p. (Ages 7-11). Fiction.

Cover for Rice featuring a close up of the green plants that grow out of rice fields with dew on the leaves and the title 'Rice' in large print made up of rice kernels. There are dragonflies flying among the plants.

Rice

Hongcheng Yu

Rice. Hongcheng Yu. Reycraft Books, 2020. ISBN 9781478869368. (Ages 8-12). Nonfiction.

Cover for White Fox featuring an illustration of a white fox on a snowy night running to a house in the distance with a tree above them and the moon in the sky.

White Fox

Chen Jiatong

Jennifer Feeley (Translator)

Viola Wong (Illustrator)

White Fox. Chen Jiatong. Translated by Jennifer Feeley. Illustrated by Viola Wong. Chicken House, 2019. First published by People’s Literature Publishing House, in China, in 2014. ISBN 9781912626083. 288 p. (Ages 8-12.) Fiction.

Taiwan
Cover of Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village featuring an illustration of a small child sitting at a table near a window with trinkets on the sill on a chair with a backpack slung over the back. The illustration is in a green frame and surrounded by a pattern of green clovers.

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village

Fang Suzhen

Huang Xiumin (Translator)

Sonja Danowski

Grandma Lives in a Perfume Village. Fang Suzhen. Translated by Huang Xiumin. Illustrated by Sonja Danowski. NorthSouth Books, 2015. Originally published in China by China Children’s Press and Publication Group. ISBN 9780735842168. 48 p. (Ages 4-8). Picture book.

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