Wukong, Be A Good Boy!

Original Title
悟空，乖！

Text by
向华 (Xiang Hua)

Illustrations by
马玉 (Ma Yu)

Pages
40

Age
4+

Publisher
Poplar | Lian Huan Hua Publishing House
November 2012

Sold
Japanese

Everyone is afraid of Wukong and hide from him at school, because Wukong is naughty and he has very powerful strength, courage and this big golden cudgel. Wukong was worried about this a lot! He wants to play with everyone. One day he decides to exchange with a rabbit Hei Hei for softness and tenderness, with his strength, courage and golden cudgel. Then a a series of interesting things happens.

Ma Yu currently resides in Beijing after graduating from the Department of Chinese Painting at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts. She enjoys making picture books, product designs, and anything to do with painting. Wukong, Be A Good Boy! was one of her works that won the International Original Picture Book Award and was published in Japan by Hakuyosha. The Adventure on Mars, the third title in the “Wukong, Be A Good Boy!” series, won the 4th “Young China” Children’s Cultural Works Picture Book Group Finalist Award and the “Zhang Leping Picture Book Award” Finalist Award in 2016. The “Wukong, Be A Good Boy!” series also represented China at The Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) in 2017.

在学校里，顽皮的悟空因为力气大，胆子大，金箍棒大，所以同学们都害怕他、躲着他，他很发愁。为了能和同学们一起玩，他找到很乖的兔子黑黑，把自己的“力气、胆子、金箍棒”和黑黑的“乖”互换后重新回到学校，接下来在学校里发生了一系列有趣的事情。

马玉，毕业于西安美术学院中国画系，现居北京。喜欢做图画书，也做产品设计，做跟画画有关的事。

绘本《悟空，乖！》获国际原创图画书奖，并在日本白杨社出版。2016年，《悟空，乖！》系列第三部——《火星奇遇》荣获第四届“少年中国”少儿文化作品绘本组入围奖、“张乐平绘本奖”入围奖。《悟空，乖！》系列作品还代表中国参加2017年度布拉迪斯拉发国际插画双年展评选。此外，作品《五个小怪物》入选《中华读书报》：“2016不可错过的15种好书”。