We’re delighted to share details of this new book by Professor Frances Weightman, of the University of Leeds!
Marketing Chinese Children’s Books – Paratext and the Politics of Authorship, by Frances Weightman (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026 – Perspectives on Children’s Literature series) ISBN 978-1350273559.
The following details are from the publisher’s website:
DESCRIPTION: An exploration of the strategies used by Chinese children’s publishers to package and promote their authors, Marketing Chinese Children’s Books situates these approaches within their historical, social and cultural contexts and considers what implications this may have for publishers looking to market Chinese children’s books to global audiences. Focusing on the abundant paratextual elements of many contemporary Chinese children’s books, including prefaces, interviews, book covers and author photographs, this study reveals the various constraints on the self-fashioning of popular children’s authors in the People’s Republic of China today. Spotlighting some of China’s best-selling children’s authors – Cao Wenxuan (the first Chinese recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award), Yang Hongying, Shen Shixi and Gerelchimeg Black Crane – Frances Weightman considers how the marketing of these authors constructs and presents them variously as academic and political authorities; friends and confidantes; or trusted guides and gatekeepers of the natural world. This is a timely study of the construction of Chinese children’s authorship coinciding with the rapid expansion of children’s literature publishing in China and its reception on the world stage.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Prologue Chapter 1: Producing and consuming children’s books in China today Chapter 2: Framing the Storyteller Chapter 3: Writing Childhood Chapter 4: Writing Authority Chapter 5: Writing the Wild: Harmony and Authenticity Chapter 6: Becoming Global Storytellers Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Index
On 27 April 2026 Professor Karen Sands O’Connor gave a fascinating presentation to Ocean University 中国海洋大学, Qingdao, China, titled “Prizing East Asia: British Children’s Publishing By and About East Asians.” She very kindly agreed to an interview with us.
Please tell us about yourself. What would you like our readers to know about you?
I’m a visiting professor with the University of Sheffield’s School of Education. I’ve taught literature classes for thirty years, mostly children’s and YA literature and the history of representation in British and American children’s books. Currently, I’m also the collections director of the Every Voice, Every Story (EVES) resource library, which is designed to help educators, librarians and caregivers understand the history of representation in Britain.
The Every Voice, Every Story Resource Library, currently being developed in Sheffield, offers a counterview of British children’s book history. Through thousands of children’s books from the 1780s onward, as well as educational materials, original illustrations and manuscripts, advertisements, children’s writing, and items from children’s popular culture, the collection focuses on historical and contemporary representations of minoritised communities: racially minoritised, but also those communities minoritised through class, gender, sexuality, religion, and ability. The collections include ‘classic’ texts, but also those which have been hidden by history, texts suggesting that positive representation of minoritised people and communities was neither absent nor, in some cases, rare. The aim of EVES is to highlight both historical racism and its continuing effects on children’s literature, and the alternative histories which have not typically been valued or recognised by standard and scholarly histories of children’s books. We offer workshops and seminars to teachers, librarians, and students of all levels to introduce these histories, and are open for scholars interested in doing research into representation in children’s books. [Source: Listening to Every Voice and Every Story: EVES Resource Library and Research Collection, Dublin City University MA in Children’s and Young Adult Literature blog, 28 Apr 2026]
People working on East Asian/Chinese children’s books often have personal connections with the language and/or culture – could you tell us about your own journey towards East Asian/Chinese children’s books?
Really, I’m just at the start of my journey. I’ve worked with doctoral students from China recently, and learned a lot from them, including about the plight of Left Behind children. I became interested in expanding EVES’ collections to include more material that demonstrated the way that British writers represented China and Chinese people—as well as the way that Chinese people and British Chinese people are starting to represent themselves in children’s literature published in the UK and US.
The structure of your presentation gave a chronological survey of interests and attitudes (positive and negative) first towards China and Chinese things and then towards Chinese people. Could you elaborate on the motivations of those involved in the creation of some of the books you mentioned? The authors, the illustrators, publishers, reviewers, booksellers, etc?
It’s impossible to know what motivated people from the past, but one can definitely see trends. In the 19th century, travel to China by ordinary Britons was uncommon, and therefore children’s books showed a real curiosity about what the country was like. The Hyde Park exhibition of Nathan Dunn’s Ten Thousand Chinese Things in the 1840s allowed British people to ‘know’ China through objects such as clothing, weaponry, religious items and artwork, but actual Chinese people remained unknown to most British people right through the beginning of the 20th century. Artists like Walter Crane, who admired Chinese and Japanese art, copied the style in some of his work, particularly his version of Aladdin. But at the turn of the century, fears about Chinese immigration and its effects on British and American workers led to the idea of ‘Yellow Peril’ and this created and cemented many stereotypes about Chinese people in popular media—including children’s books. It took the efforts of British authors travelling to China and Chinese authors in Britain (and their panda friends) to correct some of these stereotypes and bring us the wealth of quality children’s books that exist today.
I’d like to ask about international interaction in the academic field of children’s books. As a leading scholar, having received a BA travelling professorship, you are perhaps uniquely placed to comment on how international the field is?
There isn’t enough international interaction. Of course, the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) and the International Board on Books for Youth (IBBY) hold conferences, but European and North American scholars often have an easier time attending these conferences because they don’t tend to have the visa or financial considerations that some other countries’ citizens might face. And long-term international collaboration is difficult to fund and (in the current global political climate) often unpopular. Britain, for example, has restricted postgraduate student visas; and the British Academy programme that brought me to Britain is no longer awarding fellowships. I think we need to make more use of global connectedness, through online lecture series (the University of Wrocław has an international speakers series – the International Voices in Children’s Literature Studies series – and of course Ocean University in China also brings in international speakers, among others)—but we should also be finding ways to collaborate online. I’m currently developing an exhibition on migration, and I’m hoping to be able to include international scholar interviews to move the exhibition beyond Britain’s boundaries.
Munyaradzi Mawere, The Struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization. A Case for Children’s Traditional Games in South-Eastern Zimbabwe (Langaa RPCIG, 2012) [Source: Project Muse]
An additional concern, and one academia in Europe and North America will have to get to grips with, is that there are ways of understanding, evaluating and producing knowledge that simply aren’t acknowledged in or valued by traditional academic structures. Colonial hierarchies of knowledge and people continue to prevent us from being truly international. Sandy Littletree’s work on Indigenous Systems of Knowledge offers ways of rethinking fields such as librarianship and archive study, and Munyaradzi Mawere has written about African systems of knowledge in relation to children’s games. These are just two examples, but I think scholars in Europe and North America, particularly those from former imperial cultures, need to take time out to consider how indigenous scholars can improve our understanding of children’s literature around the world.
There has been an intense focus on developing children’s books in China in the 21st century. Almost all prizewinning books from around the world have been translated into Chinese. This makes China a unique place to study the world’s children’s books. Could you develop your last answer with specific regard to China?
Unfortunately, I think it is still quite a one-way street. I’ve had fantastic Chinese students in my classes, and known Chinese scholars in Britain as well, but I think some of the ‘mysterious unknown’ stereotypes still hang on when it comes to British people thinking about China. Speaking with Chinese students has made me interested, not just in children’s books, but in thinking about language and philosophy as well and the ways that these shape children’s books and child readers. China has, as you say, translated the world’s prize-winning children’s books, but how many Chinese children’s books (prize-winning or not) are translated into English by British and North American publishers? In Britain, this is beginning to change through the work of illustrators like Yu Rong, who is keen to increase the number of Chinese translations in the UK, and to help authors and illustrators work together across cultures (see our post no. 142). But this work requires the awareness and willingness of publishers, teachers, librarians, and booksellers to get these books into children’s hands.
Five Chinese Brothers, by Claire Huchet Bishop, illus. Kurt Wiese (Putnam Publishing Group, 1938)
Please tell us about your own childhood reading. Any favourite books? Do you associate your early reading with any particular people or places?
I was lucky enough to be brought up in a household that valued books; my brothers and sister and I all had our own bookshelves, and we made weekly trips to the library (sometimes more in summer). But there weren’t many Chinese stories for kids in 1970s America that were free from stereotypes, especially not contemporary realism. I read a lot of folktales, and this included Claire Huchet Bishop’s retelling of the Chinese folktale Ten Brothers (her version only had five brothers). Huchet Bishop’s retelling included problematic illustrations by Kurt Wiese, but the story—of brothers who had supernatural powers and used them to cheat death—stuck with me. I only recently discovered that the Chinese version of the story has a greater emphasis on cooperation and on thwarting the exploitation of labourers working on the Great Wall. This is a good example of a story that I think would have real resonance in English-speaking countries at the moment, and maybe someone will publish a new version for children!
Any weblinks/staff page/social media you would like to share?
BOOK NEWS – The Water Flower. The Journey of a Lotus Seed, by Yingting CHEN, illus. by Huaqing, tr. unnamed (post wave, 2025) ISBN 978-1836270188. The Chinese original 《一顆蓮子的生命旅程》was a White Ravens 2022 (see our post no. 157). Yingting Chen 陈莹婷 graduated from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has authored several books about plants. Huaqing 花青, born in Shanghai, studied in the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art, and has master’s and doctoral degrees in fine arts from Chinese National Academy of Arts. — link
NEW BOOK – Otter’s New Neigbors, by LI Xingming, tr. Shan Chen (Charlesbridge, 2026). ISBN 9781623547554 – link
INTERVIEW – “Meet the Author-Illustrator: Li Xing-ming on Loneliness and Connection” – interview by Wang Li, WorldKidLit, 25 May 2026 — link
EXHIBITION: “Ed Young’s Bright Worlds – Gesture and Feeling in 60 Years of Picture Books for Children”, at the Museum of Chinese in America, New York, 14 May – 13 Sept 2026 – link. This exhibition is part of MOCA’s Luminaries for America250, a yearlong celebration of Chinese American historymakers at the Semiquincentennial – link – Ed Young (YANG Zhicheng 杨志成) (1931-2023).
EXHIBITION REVIEW: ‘Ed Young’s Bright Worlds’: Creating a Retrospective Exhibition. Review by Krystyna Poray Goddu, Publishers Weekly, 2 July 2026 – link – Ed Young (YANG Zhicheng 杨志成) (1931-2023).
MOVIE: Bronze and Sunflower (2025) was released in China on 8 May 2026. To see trailers on Youtube etc, search for “Qingtong & Kuihua” (which means “Bronze & Sunflower”). At the Golden Rooster Awards 2025, it was nominated for Best Children’s Film (Kun-Hou CHEN) and Best Editing (Ching-Sung LIAO).
BESTSELLERS – The Top Ten Bestselling Children’s Books in China, May 2026 – The release in China of the movie Bronze and Sunflower on 8 May 2026 sent Cao Wenxuan’s novel of the same title to the No.1 and No.2 spots (by two different publishers) on OpenBook’s list of Children’s Bestsellers. The two publishers are Jiangsu Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House, and Foreign Literature Press [but the ISBN indicates Tiantian Publishing House]. At No. 7 was A Dog Named Money, by Bodo Schäfer, tr. Wen Yi (CITIC Publishing House Co. Ltd). The other seven titles in the Top Ten were in the massively-popular “Treasure Hunting” 大中华寻宝系列 series, by Jingding Comic, published by 21st Century Press Group. (Source: Erin L. Cox, China Bestsellers, May 2026: Screen Adaptations Drive Book Sales, Publishing Perspectives, 26 June 2026 – link)
Bronze and Sunflower, by CAO Wenxuan (Jiangsu Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House, 2005) ISBN 978-7534633362 // 曹文轩：《青铜葵花》江苏少年儿童出版社
Bronze and Sunfower, by CAO Wenxuan (Foreign Literature Press, but ISBN indicates it should be Tiantian Publishing House, 2015). ISBN 978-7501609413 // 曹文轩：《青铜葵花》天天出版社
Treasure Hunting in Beijing, Jingding Comic (21st Century Press Group, 2023) ISBN 978-7556869589 // 京鼎动漫 : 《北京寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
Treasure Hunting in Jilin (21st Century Press Group, 2024) ISBN 978-75568822236 // 京鼎动漫 : 《吉林寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
Treasure Hunting in Shanghai (21st Century Press Group, 2023) ISBN 978-7556869572 // 京鼎动漫 : 《上海寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
Treasure Hunting in Ningxia (21st Century Press Group, 2025) ISBN 978-7556889884 // 京鼎动漫 : 《宁夏寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
[Kira and] A Dog Named Money, by Bodo Schäfer, tr. Wen Yi (CITIC Publishing House Co Ltd, 2020) ISBN 978-7521726473 // 博多·舍费尔, 文燚 : 小狗钱钱（出版20周年珍藏纪念版） 中信出版集团
Treasure Hunting in Shanxi (21st Century Press Group, 2023) ISBN 978-7556878871 // 京鼎动漫 : 《山西寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
Treasure Hunting in Shaanxi (21st Century Press Group, 2023) ISBN 978-7556869664 // 京鼎动漫 : 《陕西寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
Treasure Hunting in Hainan (21st Century Press Group, 2023) ISBN 978-7556869831 // 京鼎动漫 : 《海南寻宝》21世纪出版社集团
UPDATE 8 July 2026 – added 2 items: Exhibition Review and Movie
We often ask our interviewees about their childhood reading, so I was interested to see an article that looked at what five very well-known Chinese authors – Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Zhang Tianyi, Wang Anyi and Shen Congwen – read when they were young. The article was published on Children’s Day (1 June), 2017. I’ve summarized and edited it below.
In October 2016, we posted about the “For Children” series (给孩子系列) – with the poet Bei Dao 北岛 as series editor – published by CITIC Press (中信出版社 中信出版社·活字文化 中信出版集团) (see post no. 9). At that time, five volumes had been published. An initial series of ten was planned, described as “A Liberal Arts Introductory Course Designed by Poet Bei Dao Specifically for Chinese Children” (“给孩子” 第一辑：诗人北岛专为中国孩子打造的博雅启蒙课 www.chinawriter.com.cn 30 July 2018)
Wonderful news! CAI Gao 蔡皋 has won the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustrators 2026. Congratulations to her and to Michael Rosen, winner of the author’s award!
Here’s a selection of news that we’ve come across this month. The Bologna Book Fair is coming up (13-16 April). As usual, it promises to be a wonderful experience!
NEW BOOK – Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise (Little Yu and the Treelings) by XIONG Liang, tr Chloe Garcia Roberts (Elsewhere Editions, 12 May 2026) ISBN 9781962770491 – link [for more about Xiong Liang see our post no. 129]
NEW BOOK – What Grandpa Taught Us 阿公教的, by Parker SU and Connie CHANG (writersclique.com, 2026) ASIN B0GSNPLSB2 – Bilingual book – link
INTERVIEW – review and interview with author/illustrator Hsu-kung LIU about his new book Little Monk Writes Rain, tr. Rachel WANG Hsin-yu. On the website Let’s Talk Picture Books, run by Mel Schuit – link
REVIEW – Art and the Otherworldly in Three New Chinese Picture Books (Leonard Marcus, The New York Times, 7 March 2026) – “In Little Monk Writes Rain, Yulu’s Linen, and Lost in Peach Blossom Paradise, spirited children meet Eastern visual traditions that have a life of their own… – link
BOOK NEWS – Ellie Awakens the Spirits of Tam Kung / Ellie réveille les esprits du temple Tam Kung Temple, by Lori WONG and Ashton LOUIE (The Yen Wo Society, 2025) — Bilingual book, funded by the Government of Canada, created for the 150th anniversary of Victoria’s Tam Kung Temple, Canada’s oldest Chinese temple and a designated National Historic Site. – link
BOOK NEWS – Blue Feet Monsoon, by Cynthia Green (Cynthia Green, 2025). ISBN 978-2959956706 – “A girl. Three passports. Some grannies. A monsoon or two. And a well-traveled sarong.” – link
BOOK NEWS – Sade and Walee Take Amala to China, by Esther OLADIMEJI (Omeda, 2026) – introduces children to Chinese language and literature through a Nigerian lens – link
BOOK NEWS – Oudi Ni Hao, by Donikue Campbell (independently published, 2025) ISBN 979-8290890913 – a multilingual book for Jamaican children – in Mandarin, Jamaican Creole and English – link
BOOK – Chinese Animation. Multiplicities in Motion, ed. by Daisy Yan DU, John A. CRESPI, and Yiman WANG (Harvard University Press, 2025) ISBN 9780674297531
Chen Yang (2026). A Multimodal Metaphor Perspective on the Globalization of English Translations of Chinese Children’s Picture Books: A Case Study of Book Covers, Open Access Library Journal 13, pp. 1-11. DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1114867 – link
Fu, C., H. Xu, S. Stjernswärd, & S. Glasdam (2025). Socialisation of Children to Cope With Death, Bereavement and Grief – A Berger and Luckman Inspired Analysis of Children’s Picture Books in a Chinese Context.OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 6 Feb 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/003022282513136 – link
Guo Wenyu (2025). Transnational Funds of Knowledge as Counternarratives: Chinese Students Respond to Multicultural Children’s Literature. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, vol. 127, issue 9-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681251393804 – link
Hu Yuting and Yuan Nan (2025). The Reframing of Biographical Literature for Contemporary Chinese Children: Multimodal Narratives, Diverse Role Models, and Market Reception. Strenæ. Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance 27 (2025). https://doi.org/10.4000/15jui – link
Li Xueyi and Tan Zaixi (2026). A Historical Study of the Outbound Translation of Chinese Children’s Literature (1949−2024): Developments and Characteristics. Journal of Foreign Languages, 2026, 49(1): 100-107. – link
Mao, W., & Pesco, D. (2025). Raising young children in multilingual Montreal: Chinese-Canadian parents’ language choices and storybook reading style. Research on Preschool and Primary Education, 4(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.55976/rppe.4202614201-12 – link
Wang, Henry Y.W. (2025). From Niche to Noticed: Helen Wang and the Networks Bringing Chinese Children’s Books to an English Readership. Children’s Literature in Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-025-09648-5 – link
Xu Derong and Jin Weijie (2026). A Study on the Overseas Rewriting of Chinese Children’s Literature—Taking the Chinese Children’ s Classic Ma Liang and His Magic Brush as an Example. Journal of Foreign Languages, 2026, 49(1): 89-99. – link
Xu Derong and Li Xiaoli (2026). The Recreation of Literariness in the English Translation of Chinese Animal Fiction. Language Education 14(1). – link
Yuan, Anxue (2026). Ecolinguistic perspectives on multimodal metaphors: a comparative analysis of Chinese and American children’s climate change picture books, Language Sciences 114, 101791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101791 – link
“Catalogue from an inspiring exhibition at United Nations Headquarters featuring illustrated children’s books from across the globe, selected from submissions to the 2025 BolognaRagazzi Award’s annual special category dedicated to Sustainability [see our post no. 174]. Each title engages with one or more topics of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Inspired by the SDG Book Club, the exhibition underscores the power of children’s literature to foster awareness, empathy, and meaningful action. The exhibition is presented by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair/BolognaFiere in collaboration with United Nations Publications and supported by the Italian Trade Agency and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.”
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE – Turning the Page on Change. Children’s Books Inspiring Action for the Global Goals, UN Headquarters, New York, 20 Feb-13 Mar 2026. The catalogue includes the following titles in Chinese:
11. A Tree Fell in the Forest, by LIN Lian En (Viking International, 2024) ISBN 978-9864405237 // 林廉恩：《森林裏倒了一棵樹》
Mr Dasi likes his quiet life in the forest. When a tree falls in the forest, he does nothing, but the knock-on effect of the tree falling is serious…
45. Emperor Penguins, by LIU Yuan (Hsin Yi Publications, 2022) ISBN 9789861616742 // 劉媛：《皇帝企鵝》
Documentary-style exploration of emperor penguin life cycles in Antarctica, narrated from the perspective of a devoted penguin father.
76. Marvels, by Dale BLANKENAAR (South Africa) (Beijing Shuxiang Wenya Book Culture, 2024) // 戴尔·布兰克纳尔:《奇迹》
Imaginative, poetic exploration of wonder in everyday nature and childhood discovery.
When a giant radish appears on the hillside, the rabbits don’t eat it, but build a giant radish mansion. All goes well until it collapses and the rabbit responsible disappears…
108. Somewhere, by Egretllu (Locus Publishing Company Taiwan, 2022) // 《好地方》
A diver’s dreamlike underwater journey through a flooded city, seeking a lost dog and inner solace amid loss and memory. [see our post no. 162]
113. Taking Action to Make the World a Better Place, by Yao-Pin CHOU, Hsin-Yu SUN (Global Views – Commonwealth Publishing Group, 2023) // 《行動，讓世界變得更好》
Global warming problems in different countries, and practical action that can be taken.
123. The Story of the Chimney, by LIU Hsu-kung (Viking International, 2019) ISBN 9789864402717 // 劉旭恭: 《煙囪的故事》 ( 維京國際)
A rich man builds a lot of chimneys. When the smoke becomes unbearable, he moves them to countryside…
127. There are Always Good Ideas: Unexpected Findings, by Hongmatongshu (China Children’s Press & Publication Group, 2023) // 红马童书: 《总有好办法：意外的发现》
A resourceful father with a never-ending supply of ingenious solutions to problems.
131. Typhoon, by Da Wu (Beijing Poplar Culture Project Co., Ltd, 2024) ISBN 978-7-5597-4019-9 // 大吴：《台风天》 (蒲蒲兰绘本馆)
Finding small delights among the destruction caused by typhoons.
143. Where Does Rice Come From, by YU Hongcheng (China Children’s Press & Publication Group, 2021) // 于虹呈：《盘中餐》
A wonderful book showing how rice is grown – a year in the life of rice farmers [see our post: 174]
Happy New Year of the Horse to everyone! 馬年大吉！With New Year celebrations and Chinamaxxing, there’s been a lot going on!
NEW BOOK – Yulu’s Linen, by CAO Wenxuan, illus. Suzy LEE, tr. Helen WANG (Simon & Schuster, 12 Feb 2026) ISBN 9781665931199 – link
NEW BOOK – Little Monk Writes Rain, by Hsu-Kung LIU, tr. Rachel Wang Yung-Hsin (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (3 March 2026). ISBN 9780802856579 – link
NEW BOOK – Aya Has Never Seen a Bear, by Gerelchimeg Blackcrane, illus. Jiu’er, tr. Paul Qiao (Greystone Books, 17 March 2026) ISBN 9781778403064 – link
BOOK CLUB – Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow’s Great Race was Blue Peter’s Book Club choice for February 2026 – link
Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow’s Great Race, by Eric HUANG, illus. Phùng Nguyên Quang (Litte Tiger, 2025) ISBN 9781788957373 – link
BOOK NEWS – The Gravedigger’s Apprentice — Alyza Liu at Simon and Schuster has bought The Gravedigger’s Apprentice, a middle grade debut by Linda Cheng (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces), Tomb Raider meets Ghostbusters in this action-adventure set in the criminal underworld of 1930s China, where a young graverobber must team up with her rival to plunder a haunted tomb in order to save her adopted family from the clutches of a corrupt army officer. Publication is slated for summer 2027; John Cusik at Folio Literary Management did the deal for world rights. – from PW Children’s Bookshelf, 26 Feb 2026 – link — For more about gravedigging novels, see Xueting Christine Ni’s blogpost “Raiding China’s tomb adventures.”
EVENT: To celebrate Chinese New Year, the Chinese Consulate General in Munich and the International Youth Library held a Chinese-German Children’s Book event at the IYL. Chinese and German readers recited the ancient Chinese poem “New Year’s Day” and “The Cicada and the Old Ox” by CAO Wenxuan – link
Die kleine Zikade und der alte Ochs, illus. Britta TECKENTRUP (Jacoby & Stuart, 2024) ISBN 978-3964281807 // 曹文轩：《老牛与蝉》- more info (incl. English rights)
Chinese books for young readers 