Reading List

READING LIST

(P indicates primary, M indicates middle school, H indicates high school)

Bartok, Mira and Christine Ronan. Ancient China: Stencils. Big World. Glenview, IL: Good Year Books, 1995. (P/M)

Bateson-Hill, Margaret. Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. (P/M)

Calliope: World History for Young People. The Mongols. Cobblestone Publishing, Inc., Vol. 4, No. 2, 1993. (P/M)

_____. The Ming Dynasty: The World of the Yongle Emperor. May/June 1995. (P/M)

Chen, Jack. The Chinese of America. Harper and Row, 1980. (M/H)

Choi, Yangsook. The Sun Girl and the Moon Boy. New York: A. Knopf/Random House, 1997. (P)

Davol, Margerite. The Paper Dragon. Atheneum, 1992. (P/M)

Elmer, Margaret et al. Hands On: China. Seattle: The Children's Museum, 1991. (P/M)

Finney, Susan and Patricia Kindle. China Then and Now. Carthage, IL: Good Apple, Inc., 1988. (M/H)

Friedman, Ina R. How My Parents Learned To Eat. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. (P/M)

Goldstein, Peggy. Long Is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1991. (P/M/H)

Holland, Janice. You Never Can Tell. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. (M/H)

Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas. Family: The Chinese American Album. Oxford University Press, 1994. (P/M)

_____. Chinese Portraits: Images Across the Ages. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1993. (P/M)

Lewis, John. The Chinese Word for Horse and Other Stories. New York: Schocken Books, 1980. (P/M)

Lin, Alice P. Grandmother Had No Name. San Francisco: China Books, 1988. (M/H)

Lip, Evelyn. Chinese Beliefs and Superstitions. Graham Brash, Ltd., 1985. (M/H)

Ludwig, Lyndell. Ts'ao Chung Weighs an Elephant. Berkeley: Creative Arts Books, 1983. (P)

Man-ho, Kwok. The Chinese Horoscopes Library: Horse. Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada Inc., 1994. (P/M/H)

Mann, Elizabeth. The Great Wall. A Wonders of the World Book. New York: Mikaya Press, 1997. (P/M)

Manton, Jo and Robert Gittings. The Flying Horses: Tales from China. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. (M/H)

Martell, Hazel Mary. Imperial China 221 BC to AD 1294. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999. (P/M)

_____. The Ancient Chinese: Worlds of the Past. New York: New Discovery Books, 1993. (P/M)

Nicholson, Robert and Claire Watts. Journey Into Civilization: Ancient China. New York: Chelsea Juniors, 1994. (P/M)

Peers, Chris and Christa Hook. Late Imperial Chinese Armies 1520-1840. Men-At-Arms Series. London: Osprey, 1997. (P/M/H)

Rappaport, Doreen. The Journey of Meng. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991. (P)

Roberts, Moss. Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. (M)

Sadler, Catherine Edwards. Treasure Mountain: Folktales from Southern China. New York: Atheneum, 1982. (P/M)

Severin, Tim. In Search of Genghis Khan. New York: Maxwell MacMillan International, 1992. (M/H)

Sanders, Tao Tao Liu. Dragons, Gods, and Spirits from Chinese Mythology. Shocken Books, 1980. (M)

Time-Life. The Mongol Conquests: Time Frame AD 1200-1300. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books. (M/H)

Walters, Derek. Chinese Mythology: An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend. London: Diamond Books, 1995. (M/H)

Williams, Brian. Ancient China. New York: Viking, 1996. (P, M)

Williams, Jay. Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like. New York: Four Winds Press, 1976. (P)

Williams, Suzanne. Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China. Berkeley, CA: Pacific View Press, 1996. (P/M/H)

Wolkstein, Diane. The Magic Wings. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1983. (P)

Yep, Laurence. The Star Fisher. Morrow Junior Books, 1991. (P/M)

Young, Ed. Lon Po-Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China. Philomel Books, 1989. (P)

Zhang, Song Nan. The Children of China. New York: Tundra Books, 1995. (P/M)