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November 2022
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October 2020The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Picture Version)
by Huang Xuran, Tang Sulan
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Picture Version)" is a children's traditional cultural enlightenment book with a fresh perspective. Selected representative and interesting chapters in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" were drawn into the book, which depicts a series of images in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" such as water systems, mountains, vegetations, trees, mountain gods, sacred beasts, water monsters, etc. In this imaginative picture book, images are vivid and the story theme is ups and downs. The author extracts nourishment from the profound ancient myths, and then creates new stories that children can understand. The whole book takes a retro and creative form with concise and simple text and simple and freehand ink painting through the mountain and sea scriptures, depicting a mythical world where the heavens and the earth are prevalent and the gods and monsters are in chaos.
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The White Witch's Garden
by Dai Yun, Gui Tuzi
The story of The White Witch's Garden is about a white witch living in the sky wants to create into a garden, and she experimented three thousand years but has not been succeeded. Cannot see the sunlight and no air circulation, no warmth and love, only infinite expectations and a variety of radical experiments, so of course there not open a beautiful flower. The good is that the white witch finally figured it out. She opened the window, let the sun shine in, let the air flow, swept away the tension and anxiety, arrogance and greed in her heart, and the spring would come for the flowers. This picture book is full of children's philosophies and gives children good inspiration for their thoughts. The pictures are beautiful and enhance their aesthetic skills. It is lovely to be persistent, but sometimes it is possible to take a step back, let go of tension and anxiety, and open yourself up to more possibilities.
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Half the Quilt(Picture Book Edition)
by Xiaoxiang Film Group Co., Yang Fei
Half of the Quilt(Picture Book Edition) is based on the movie Heart for Heart (produced by Xiaoxiang Film Group and directed by Meng Qi). In October 1934, the fifth anti-encirclement failed, the Central Red Army evacuated the Soviet Union and began the Long March. The Red Army field hospital was bombed by enemy planes and suffered heavy casualties. Dong Xiuyun, a female soldier who stayed at the field hospital to look after the wounded, decided to take the wounded with her and chase the troops. Dong Xiuyun took in the soldiers of the various units who were left alone along the road, forming a special team. After the team came to Shazhou Village, the three female Red Army lived in Xu Xiexiu's house. When parting, Dong Xiuyun cut the only one quilt in half to Xu Xiexiu. This book nourishes the young people's spiritual world with red culture, inherits the red gene, and allows the spirit of the Long March to be passed on from generation to generation among children.
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Half the Quilt(Youth Edition)
by Xiaoxiang Film Group Co., Yang Fei
Half of the Quilt(Youth Edition) is based on the movie Heart for Heart (produced by Xiaoxiang Film Group and directed by Meng Qi). In October 1934, the fifth anti-encirclement failed, the Central Red Army evacuated the Soviet Union and began the Long March. The Red Army field hospital was bombed by enemy planes and suffered heavy casualties. Dong Xiuyun, a female soldier who stayed at the field hospital to look after the wounded, decided to take the wounded with her and chase the troops. Dong Xiuyun took in the soldiers of the various units who were left alone along the road, forming a special team. After the team came to Shazhou Village, the three female Red Army lived in Xu Xiexiu's house. When parting, Dong Xiuyun cut the only one quilt in half to Xu Xiexiu. This book nourishes the young people's spiritual world with red culture, inherits the red gene, and allows the spirit of the Long March to be passed on from generation to generation among children.
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June 2020Ma Liang and His Magic Painting Brush
by Hong Xuntao, Yang Yongqing
Ma Liang with a magic paint brush is a classic character created by the fairy tale master Hong Xuntao. The picture book "Ma Liang and His Magic Painting Brush" created by the famous painter Yang Yongqing is also an immortal classic -- it exbibits Ma Liang's spirit as diligent and kind, and fearless towards violence.
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November 2020White Elephant
by Xiao Mao, Shishir C. Naik
Shanka is the king's gardener. He lived in a small house with his wife. One night, unable to sleep, Shanka sat up and looked out of the window, and saw a white elephant was eating grass in the silvery moonlight! Shanka never saw a white elephant before, where was it from? Shanka jumped out of his bed and tiptoed into the garden, grabbed the elephant by the tail and flew up to heaven.
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Children's & YAThe Girl and the Goat
by Wang Yimei
It is the story about county and city. The girl XiaoYue met a goat who was chasing the dandelion seed in the woods of the street garden. This is the only goat in the city, he had never left this woods, cause he couldn’t cross the road. He wanted XiaoYue to bring him to see the fields, so XiaoYue held his horns and made him left the woods, and also encouraged him to pass through the zebra crossings. They arrived at XiaYue’s grandma’s house and spent a very good day. In fact that this goat is very stubborn, he didn’t want to leave the original place where he lived, so he turned into a statue in this city. When they came back to the street garden this day, all the streetlights had been turned on, and the only goat dispeared in the streetlights.
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Pu Songling's Desk-mate is A Flower Fairy
by Chang Li
The Picture Book of Philosophical Stories for Children inspired by four Chinese and foreign literary classics (Tales from a Carefree Studio, Moby Dick, Don Quixote, and A Midsummer Night's Dream), this book carefully retells the works of four famous writers - Pu Songling, Herman Melville, Cervantes, and Shakespeare - all set in the context of modern children's lives, containing profound philosophical ideas, and skillfully incorporating the true meaning of wisdom and discernment. The form of this book is children's favorite picture books style, so that children can talk to literary classics and understand the philosophy in the stories. According to Pu Songling's "Liao Zhai Zhiyi", the persona of Pu Songling is preserved and taken from the autobiography of "Liao Zhai Zhiyi" as well as part of the storyline. A lonely child with a world of his own. Showing a journey of waves, a history of retrospection and reflection, a future that should be even better. A lonely child, in need of friendship, a friend in trouble, in need of help. When the individual fights against power, the whole of nature comes to help, and the plant grows wildly, both in anger and in ecstasy.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)2016Happy Naked People
by Kateryna Babkina
"Happy Naked People" is a thematically united cycle of stories about happiness or rather about what precedes happiness. These are stories about the generation of Ukrainians who had a chance to see the last days of the Soviet Union and the recession that followed it, about those who grew up and became the strogest versions of themselves, in spite of everything that happened to them. It is about how these people live now and interact with the world, in which there is war, and love, and emigration, and Hanoi, and New York, and the dead, and the living, and the blind, and the unwise; and, most importantly, how to be happy with this all.
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December 2020Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·She: The Black Rice Festival
by Yan Xiangjun, Liao Zhenghua
This book mainly introduces the origin of the She ethnic group's Black Rice Festival. While areas of the She ethnic group suffered from pests, the land owners increased rents and fees. As a result, the She people were in shortage of food. Lan Tianfeng led people to the land owner's house to steal food. After being found out, Lan Tianfeng stepped forward to protect others and was imprisoned on March 3rd. There was no food in the prison for him. Later, some She people used black rice leaves to cook rice. The jailers did not dare to eat the black rice and passed the rice to Tianfeng. Over time, Lan Tianfeng slowly recovered. Three years later, again on March 3rd, Lan Tianfeng was rescued. In order for future generations to commemorate the feat of Lan Tianfeng and remember how hard to have rice, the Black Rice Festival is celebrated every year.
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June 2020A Little Pig and Ten Wolves
by Yang Yongqing
While there is a story of "Three Little Pigs" in the western world, there is another story "A Little Pig and Ten Wolves" in China. An evil old wolf wanted to eat a piglet living alone but he was taught a lesson. The angry wolf found another nine wolves to take a revenge. The piggy was brave and scheming, and he repelled those wolves again.
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June 2019Dry Up the Sea
by Fang Suzhen, Sarah Ugolotti
Dry Up the Sea is according to the folktales of Cambodia. There were many sunk merchant ships on the bottom of the sea. Many treasures and gold and silver contained in these ships also laid on the seabed along with these ships. The two friends acted together and wanted to dry the sea to gain the treasure of the sea. However, a Dragon King lived in the Crystal Palace on the bottom of the sea. The Dragon King for sure wanted to stop them.
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Chang Yu figure painting
by Chang Yu
In the modern Chinese painting circle, Chang Yu is a leader, once alternately refreshing the Chinese oil painting auction record. Painter Chang Yu has had ups and downs throughout her life, and insists on going her own way in art. He is recognized in the West as a world-class painter, a Chinese Modigliani, a painter who creates freely for his artistic beliefs and makes remarkable achievements. Chang Yu turned from the most familiar Chinese art to another brand new western art field, and constantly explored and pursued on the basis of Chinese painting, finally achieving Chang Yu's special painting style of simplicity and fluency. Chang Yu is an indelible Oriental pearl. Few books of Chang Yu are published in China. We popularize such art and publicize Chang Yu's achievements in the history of Chinese art in the 20th century.The series consists of 3 books. This book is a collection of Chang Yu's figure painting works, which contains more than 60 of his important and iconic figure works. Chang Yu's female body works are different from the expression Angle of nude paintings, and he uses the whole body outline of a naked woman to express the scenery in his mind. There are not many slim naked women in Chang Yu's works, but mostly plump and fat women. Quite the author "do not talk to people, alone in the dark" self-pity mode.
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Little Puppets in the Shadow Play
by Xu Haifeng, Zhang Mengxue
"Clang-clang-clang, clank-clank-clank." With a gong, an oil lamp, a curtain and a few shadow puppets, a brilliant performance is going on. Bao'er is not interested in this old trick at all, so he makes a total mess of his grandpa's shadow play. However, it is the "insignificant" shadow play that comes to Bao'er's rescue at a critical moment. Is it a dream? Will Bao'er change his attitude toward shadow play? Don't worry. Puppet play, an intangible cultural heritage, has just begun in the light and shadow...
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Children's & YA2017Dance of the Wild
by Richa Jha and Ruchi Mhasane
Little Shilu loves to dance around naked. She wants to be like the animals; like Pirate, her cat. When her grandmother Nannu says she can’t because she is now a big girl, Shilu gets down to understanding why she can’t. Peppered with Nannu’s loving chiding, intimate grandma-granddaughter bonding over conversations, and a heart-to-heart between the mother and this little inquisitive daughter, this book is a reflection of the wild and free nature of childhood. Rhuchi Mhasane’s soft evocative illustrations rendered in pencil with watercolour, and put together digitally, create a dreamlike charm. Richa Jha’s gentle, affectionate and lyrical text takes the reader into the mind of the little girl who can’t wait to get the answers to her ‘Why can’t I?’
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December 2020Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·Shui: The Duan Festival
by Yan Xiangjun, Chen Anmin
This book mainly describes the origin and changes of the Shui ethnic group's Duan Festival. Through the evolution of folklore of this unique festival of Shui ethnic group, this book tells that Shui people have the courage to move away from the barren old homeland and open up new places of residence by hard work. In the beautiful and fertile new hometown, people were united to defend the fruits of their labor and finally built a peaceful new life. The Shui people leveraged the customs of festivals to pass on the good wishes and construction experience of their ancestors from generation to generation.
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Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·red
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the first volume.
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Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Blue
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the second volume.
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Idiomatic Paintings —the Idiom Story That Children Should Read·Green
by Wei Bin
The idiom not only reflects the profundity of Chinese language and cultrue, but also contains every aspect of Chinese traditional culture. The idiom stories selected in this book are simple, easy and enlightening. This is the third volume.
