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22) The musician
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In ancient China, a young musician named Yu Boya gained fame for his talents. On the night of the Moon Festival, he encounters a mysterious woodcutter who is also a musician and admires Boya's most famous song: Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water. Their friendship deepens and Boya vows to play the song for his new friend every year on the festival night. But the next year, upon hearing of his friend's death, Boya smashes his instrument and never plays...
25) The magic boat
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When honest Chang is tricked out of his magic boat, he and his friends venture to win it back from wicked Ying and the greedy Emperor.
26) Little Plum
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An old Chinese couple has a son who never grows any larger than a plum seed, but his size does not prevent him from saving his village from a cruel lord.
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Español
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El viejo rey Karnak está preocupado. No le queda mucho tiempo de vida y no tiene heredero. Para encontrar a un digno sucesor decide convocar una competición un tanto inusual. Los caballeros y los nobles acuden en masa al palacio y rey les entrega una semilla a cada uno. Jack, el hijo de un campesino, también recibe su semilla: la planta, la riega y espera a que brote--.
In order to find an heir, the childless King Karnak holds a seed-growing competition...
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中文(繁體)
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Mulan is a folk story from China's Northern Dynasty (439-589) about the unusual tale of an ordinary girl named Fa Mulan. This book is illustrated based on the original ballad, which depicts her bravery through Chinese ink paintings. A long time ago in China, there lived a young girl named Mulan. Her father was a retired general who taught her many skills girls weren't normally allowed to learn, like martial arts, archery, sword play and how to ride...
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"Up in the heaven, a little immortal named Nian sees the people of earth suffering each year when a monster comes. Every year the villagers run away and hide in the mountains and forests for safety. Kindhearted Nian decides to help. But when he comes to earth to protect the villagers, no one believes that this little child will be able to stop the mighty monster."--
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A retelling of a Chinese folktale, based on a poem from the Sung Dynasty, in which a young girl disguises herself as a man and leads the army of China to victory against the enemy. The Sung version of the poem is incorporated into the illustrations in Wei Tablet Style calligraphy and "The Ballad of Mulan" appears in simplified Chinese characters as the last page of text.