Ed Young
Author
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
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Description
This version of the Cinderella story, in which a young girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince, is based on ancient Chinese manuscripts written 1000 years before the earliest European version.
22) Yugen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Illustrations, simple text, and haiku reveal a young boy's longing and remembrance of his mother.
23) Tsunami!
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
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.
24) Wabi Sabi
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
27) Sadako
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
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Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
28) Desert song
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
As the heat of the desert day fades into night, various nocturnal animals, including bats, coyotes, and snakes, venture out to find food.
29) Genesis
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A visual interpretation of the story of Creation.
31) Seven fathers
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
33) Night shadows
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Mrs. Lucy finds graffiti painted on her garage two nights in a row, but as Tasha, a lonely neighbor girl, helps her paint over it the two become friends, despite their age difference. Features cut-out illustrations.
34) Pinocchio
Author
Language
English
Description
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
35) Nighttime Ninja
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Late at night, when all is quiet and everyone is asleep, a ninja creeps silently through the house in search of treasure."--
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel is a girl with the very long, golden hair; A pair of elves secretly create an amazing pair of shoes for a poor but kindly shoemaker; When a young girl befriends a mysterious elderly woman, magical things begin to happen; Follow the adventures of billy goats named Gruff as they bravely hunt for fresh green grass to eat; Lon Po Po brings lessons about strangers, trust and courage; A king falls in love with a princess after she hides her identity...