FEATURED BOOKS
Samurai Spirit:
Wisdom and knowledge, passed on through generations of
Samurai warriors, is presented by renowned martial arts expert, sensei
Burt Konzak, in this collection of short stories for young adults.
Beyond the Dance:
The inspirational life story of Chan Hon Goh, the
first Asian Canadian to become a principal dancer with the National
Ballet of Canada.
Aiko's Flowers:
The story of how little Aiko learns the purpose and
practice of the beautiful ancient art form, ikebana, or Japanese flower
arrangement.
A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night, An autobiography in Art:
When Song Nan was not yet three, he saw a little tiger in the mountains where he
and his mother had taken refuge from the war. For a child to see a wild
tiger meant a lucky life, but as he found out, luck would come and go
with the storms that have shaken China over the past fifty years.
Following the Cultural
Revolution, Song Nan Zhang travelled to China's most remote reaches. In
The Children of China:
An Artist's Journey he has captured in art these dramatic glimpses into Chinese family life.
Cowboy on the Steppes:
From the detailed diaries of Yi Nan Zhang, this
is the story of one teenager among millions who was forced to leave his
home and family as part of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution in 1968,
from noisy Beijing to the steppes of Mongolia.
Song Nan Zhang gathers creation legends and illustrates them with art
inspired by ancient Chinese pottery, sculpture, and paintings in
Five Heavenly Emperors:
Chinese Myths of Creation.
A Time of Golden Dragons
traces dragon history and dragon legends, and
is a wonderful introduction to one of the world's most powerful and
irresistible symbols.
West Coast Chinese Boy:
A unique record of what it was like to be a
child in the early 1920s in the second largest Chinese community in
North America. "With rare insight, humour, pathos and irony author Sing
Lim has re-created life during the '20s in Vancouver's Chinatown."
-Quill & Quire
A Child in Prison Camp:
Shichan Takashima tells the story, through a
child's eyes, of the internment of thousands of men, women, and children
of Japanese origin living on Canada's west coast in World War II. " . . .the
view through a child's eye gives a new and poignant dimension,
magnifying a triumph of the human spirit." -The New York Times
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