"Using the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac, this bright and appealing board book introduces the youngest of readers to the names of animals in both English and Chinese, using Chinese characters alongside their pinyin (romanized spelling)."--Publisher's description. Uses the Chinese zodiac to introduce young children to Chinese and English names for twelve animals. Also lists personality traits attributed to persons born under each zodiac sign and...

Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry little girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep.

Befriended by a magical fish, Yeh-hsien is granted her dearest wish to go to the village festival where she loses a slipper--Page [4] of cover.

When young Ming travels with his father to Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, little does he know that he will meet the famous philosopher himself! Ming and his father are in China's Qufu, Shandong Province, where the great sage Confucius was born over 2,500 years ago. While Ming's father studies the stunning historic architecture, Ming's attention is drawn to a game of Chinese checkers set up in a gazebo. As soon as he touches the checkers, he finds...

Today the jungle is alive with sport, the animals have spent days practicing for the big event and now Sports Day has finally arrived. But not everyone is taking part. Poor Sloth is too slow and, as Monkey keeps reminding him, there are no prizes for hanging around. There might not be a race for Sloth but he becomes the jungle's unlikely hero when he saves Sports Day from disaster and teaches Monkey an important lesson. Fable meets fact file in Jill...