Category Archives: picture books

A Place Like the Sea

Text & illustration by Lin Boting

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The story took place in the aquarium, a place like the sea. Many creatures were displayed here and their world was built for people to view. People and fishes look at each other through the glass from two unrelated worlds. One thing happened and it echoed a similar situation for these two worlds. That is, a little boy got lost in the aquarium and his panic and helplessness were shown in front of another world, and the one who understood him best at the moment was trapped and swimming in the other side.

Flame

Author: Ernest Seton Thompson | Illustrator: Zhu Chengliang

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Foreign rights sold: English (USA, Canada), French (world), Korean (world), Russian, Danish

Adapted from American author Ernest Seton Thompson’s well-known animal fictions. Flame, the mother fox, was moving home with her two babies, while one of her babies was caught by hunter’s trap. As Flame tried to help her kid, The hunter’s dogs found her and just wouldn’t stop chasing her. How would she come up with ideas to help her baby escaping from the hunter? One wonderful adventure of love and courage, with movie-like colors.

I AM A PANDA!

Author & illustrator: Tatsuya Miyanishi

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No matter where a zoo locates, pandas are always super stars. They always put on nice smells and meet tourists’ requests. But that day, this panda felt tired, he didn’t want to be panda anymore! He found a rabbit, painted him white and black, but tourists soon found out. He then found a pig, an elephant, and an unexpected big fella…Will their plan work out?

A River Tour

Text & illustration by Da Wu

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When the brothers came to the river, they found that the fog was too heavy and it was hazy.
They mistook the grass for the water bird, the dead tree for the fawn, and the dirt for the crocodile…
This is an optical illusion game, full of unknown and thrilling.
They recovered from the thrill and thought it was their own power to resolve the thrill…
Perhaps in the future, they will proudly repeat this extraordinary experience, but they may never know the whole thing…
Is the truth really as we have seen with our own eyes?

Camping

Text & illustration by Da Wu

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The brothers set up a tent early, and waited for it to go camping after dark.
Will the world at night be different from the ones at day?
The younger brother’s expectations seem to be frustrated again: there are no miracles, no novelties, and even no difference from usual…
But in the end a miracle happened.

Before the miracle happened, they were discussing whether the miracle would happen;
When the miracle happened, they were surprised and worried secretly in the discussion;
After the miracle was over, they woke up from their dreams…

In ordinary life, how many big and small adventures have we ever had, but we are completely unaware of it?

Walk on Earth

Text & illustration by Da Wu

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The real world around you is just as marvelous as your imagination.
The older brother takes the younger to a walk. Along the way, the younger cannot stop asking his older brother if their place has these things which are seemingly cool and interesting. Though the older brother keeps denying, there is, actually, a treasure buried deep down under their world. Great things are right around you, and you just need to find them.

The King of Trees

Text & illustration by Da Wu

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Nobody knows one sapling could grow into a huge tree before it actually grows huge. When it was in medium size, they just saw it as an ordinary tree. The tree in town never stopped growing, only then people finally realized, that there was this huge tree standing there. They called it the king of trees, a miracle. It was people’s proud, until it became too huge. People started worried, and decided, to cut it down.

Sudan’s Rhino Horn

Author: Dai Yun, illustrator: Li Xingming

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Sudan’s Rhino Horn is based on the true story of Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, who passed away in March 2018 at the age of 45. Revolving around Sudan’s horn, the symbol of a rhino’s existence, the story reflects the complex relationship between human beings and wildlife.
Based on the true story of Sudan with fairy tale style, we look back the life of Sudan. There are three times of cutting off the rhino’s horn in the story: the first time was Sudan’s mother; the second time was in the zoo in Czech; the third time was in Africa:  his horn was cut off in order to protect his life. 
The rhino’s horn has a strong symbolic meaning: the horn is a rhino’s crown and strongest weapon to protect life and territories. But the saddest thing of Sudan is, it will kill his life although the horn is his proud and a symbol for his identity. His corn could not co-exist with his living body.

Little Big World

Text & illustration by Svjetlan Junaković

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The bear and the bee, the leopard and the ladybug, the ostrich and the marmot…When big animals pair with small animals, the imagination is sparkled. The little fish can play the music together with the whale. The crab can barber the seal. The bat can show the way for the reindeer…Looking at these creatures, you will forget that big and small used to be antonymic.