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The Story of Paper: Amazing Chinese Inventions

By Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9781597021234 | Bilingual edition (Immedium, April 5, 2016), cover price $15.95

The Story of Chopsticks: Amazing Chinese Inventions

By Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9781597021203 | Bilingual edition (Immedium, April 5, 2016), cover price $15.95

The Story of Noodles: Amazing Chinese Inventions

By Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9781597021210 | Bilingual edition (Immedium, April 5, 2016), cover price $15.95

The Story of Kites: Amazing Chinese Inventions

By Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9781597021227 | Bilingual edition (Immedium, April 5, 2016), cover price $15.95

13 Scary Ghost Stories

Product Description: This collection of thirteen scary stories from around the world is perfect for young readers looking for a frightening (but not terrifying) read.Readers will meet thirteen ghosts, werewolves, skeletons, and other creepy characters in this spine-tingling collection of scary stories...read more

By Marianne Carus (editor) and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780439340212 | Scholastic Paperbacks, August 1, 2002, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An international collection of ghost stories about skeletons, werewolves, and haunted castles, including such titles as 'Bigger than Death,' 'The Airi,' and 'The Man Who Sang to Ghosts.

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9781439520017 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This collection of thirteen scary stories from around the world is perfect for young readers looking for a frightening (but not terrifying) read.

D Is for Dragon Dance

Introduces the wondrous traditions of a Chinese New Year through an illustrated and alphabetized review of such components as firecrackers, acrobats, and red envelopes.

By Ying Chang Compestine and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780823420582 | Holiday House, October 15, 2006, cover price $6.95

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9780823418879 | Holiday House, January 31, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Introduces the wondrous traditions of a Chinese New Year through an illustrated and alphabetized review of such components as firecrackers, acrobats, and red envelopes.

Prebinding:

9781417785605 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2006, cover price $17.15

The Dragon Lover & Other Chinese Proverbs

Presents Chinese folktales about a lazy farmer, a musician who played for a water buffalo, a fight between a clam and a crane, an old horse, and a man interested in dragons, and describes how they explain proverbs

By Yongsheng Xuan

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9781885008114, titled "The Dragon Lover and Other Chinese Proverbs" | Shens Books & Supplies, January 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents Chinese folktales about a lazy farmer, a musician who played for a water buffalo, a fight between a clam and a crane, an old horse, and a man interested in dragons, and describes how they explain proverbs

Paperback:

9781885008312, titled "The Dragon Lover: And Other Chinese Proverbs" | Bilingual edition (Shens Books & Supplies, September 30, 2006), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Presents Chinese folktales about a lazy farmer, a musician who played for a water buffalo, a fight between a clam and a crane, an old horse, and a man interested in dragons, and describes how they explain proverbs

The Story of Paper

After the Kang brothers get in trouble at school, they devise a way to make paper, which will make things easier for both their teacher and themselves, in a tale that includes a historical note and a recipe for home-made paper.

By Ying Chang Compestine and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823417056 | 1 edition (Holiday House, August 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After the Kang brothers get in trouble at school, they devise a way to make paper, which will make things easier for both their teacher and themselves, and includes a historical note and a recipe for home-made paper.

The Story of Kites

Long ago in China, three brothers--Ting, Pan, and KÂ·ai--become tired of chasing birds from their family's rice fields and experiment with ways to make the job easier, telling how kites may have been invented.

By Ying Chang Compestine and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823417155 | 1 edition (Holiday House, February 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Long ago in China, three brothers become tired of chasing birds from their family's rice fields and experiment with ways to make the job easier.

The Story of Noodles

Left alone to prepare their family's prize-winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, 'mian tiao,' or noodles, in a tale that includes a cultural note and a recipe for long life noodles.

By Ying Chang Compestine and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823416004 | Holiday House, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Left alone to prepare their family's prize-winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, 'mian tiao,' or noodles.

The Story of Chopsticks

When little KÂ·ai Kang cannot get enough to eat, he begins using sticks to grab food too hot for the hands, and soon all of China uses KÂ·ai zi, or chopsticks, in a humorous tale of how chopsticks may have been invented.

By Ying Chang Compestine and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823415267 | Holiday House, September 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: When KÃ¡uai cannot get enough to eat, he begins using sticks to grab food too hot for the hands, and soon all of China uses KÃ¡uai zi, or chopsticks.

That's Ghosts for You: 13 Scary Stories

Offers a collection of thirteen unpublished and previously published spooky tales from around the world, including 'Bones', 'A Place of Haunts', 'The Airi', and more.

By Marianne Carus (editor) and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780812626759 | Cricket Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An international collection of spine-tingling stories, including such titles as 'Bigger than Death,' 'The Airi,' and 'The Man Who Sang to Ghosts.

The Rooster's Antlers: A Story of the Chinese Zodiac

Presents how the Jade Emperor set about creating a calendar to measure time and explains how the different animals for each of the twelve months came to be selected.

By Kimmel Eric A. and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823413850 | Holiday House, March 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Relates how the Jade Emperor chose twelve animals to represent the years in his calendar, and discusses the qualities associated with each animal of the Chinese zodiac

The Laziest Boy in the World

When Xiaolong--perhaps the laziest boy in all of China--devises a way to capture the thief who breaks into his family's home, all the people in his village change their minds about the 'lazy' boy.

By Lensey Namioka and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823413300 | Holiday House, September 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Xiaolong devises a way to capture the thief who breaks into his family's home, all the people in the Chinese village change their minds about the 'lazy' boy

Ten Suns: A Chinese Legend

The sons of the eastern god, Di Jun, become bored one day and decide to play a game, but when their game causes everything on the planet to begin to die, the emperor approaches Di Jun and pleads with him as he is the only one whom he could ask for help.

By Kimmel Eric A. and Yongsheng Xuan (illustrator)

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9780823413171 | Holiday House, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When the ten sons of Di Jun walk across the sky together causing the earth to burn from the blazing heat, their father looks for a way to stop the destruction

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