The biennial Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation has gone to Helen Wang, for her translation of Cao Wenxuan’s Bronze and Sunflower, published by Walker Books in 2015. Big congratulations, Helen! Continue reading
Paopao Zhen跑跑镇/ written by Yadong; illustrated by Maikexiaokui. Jinan, China: Ming tian chu ban she, 2015.
In a small town named the Run Run Town, everybody likes to run fast. They run and run, and “Wham!”—it is inevitable that they will collide into each other. Continue reading
Mr Pang and Mr Shou (that is, Mr Fat and Mr Slim) live on opposite sides of a river, together with their families. For some unknown reason they don’t like each other and are always fighting. Their children are not allowed to talk to each other – they don’t even let their dogs Pointy Ear and Round Ear play together. But then one morning the families are cooking breakfast. The white smoke from one of the fires mingles with the black smoke from the other. And when the families see this, they start to change their minds … Continue reading
When Walt Disney’s “Bambi” opened in 1942, critics praised its spare, haunting visual style, vastly different from anything Disney had done before. But what they did not know was that the film’s striking appearance had been created by a Chinese immigrant artist, who took as his inspiration the landscape paintings of the Song dynasty. The extent of his contribution to “Bambi,” which remains a high-water mark for film animation, would not be widely known for decades. Continue reading
Chinese books for young readers 