Asia

 Asia is a currently a second grade unit at BCSIS

[|**Tales told in tents: stories from Central Asia**] **Author:**, Sally Pomme]] Fiction **Summary:** Retells folktales from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, and includes several stories that cross regional lines, proverbs, riddles, and poems. > fiction > **Summary:** Eight tales from the Uzbek, Kirghiz, Tajik, Turkman and Kazakh regions. #|Added [|**A time of golden dragons**] **Author:** Zhang, Song Nan, 1942-]] Nonfiction **Summary:** Traces the history and role in Chinese culture of the dragon, which affects every aspect of life in China, including the marking of dragon years, the flying of dragon kites, and the eating of dragon cakes at dragon boat races.
 * [|**The tiger's whisker, and other tales from Asia and the Pacific**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780805035124 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args3',);"]]
 * **Author:** |Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996]]
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 * **Summary:** Thirty-one folk tales from //**Asia**//, the Middle East, and islands in the Pacific with a section of notes on each story at the end of the //**book**//.
 * [|**Folk tales & fables of Asia & Australia**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780791027578 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args4',);"]]
 * **Author:** Ingpen, Robert R.
 * **Summary:** Presents seventeen stories from the peoples of //**Asia**// as well as from the Australian aborigines and the Maori, including "Baba Yaga and the Stepdaughter," "The Bridge of Magpies," "Rainbow Serpent," and "Maui, the Fisherman.".
 * [|**Moon magic: stories from Asia**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780876147511 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args5',);"]]
 * fiction
 * [|**Folk tales from the Soviet Union: Central Asia and Kazakhstan**]
 * **Author:** |Babloyan, R.]]

[|Tibet: through the red box] Author: Sis, Peter, 1949-]] Nonfiction Summary: The author recreates his father's visit to Tibet and the wondrous things that he found there.

[|**At the beach**] Author: Lee, Huy Voun fiction Summary: A mother amuses her young son at the beach by drawing in the sand Chinese characters, many of which resemble the objects they stand for.

[|**One leaf rides the wind: counting in a Japanese garden**] **Author:** Celeste Davidson Nonfiction **Summary:** In this collection of haiku poems, a young girl walks through a Japanese garden and discovers many delights, from one leaf to ten stone lanterns. Includes notes about Japanese religion and philosophy. #|Added [|**Rice is life**] **Author:** Gelman, Rita Golden Nonfiction **Summary:** Text and illustrations demonstrate the importance of rice to life on the island of Bali in the country of Indonesia, where rice is consumed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[|**Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun**] **Author:** Blumberg, Rhoda Nonfiction
 * Advanced Book**
 * Summary:** Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.

[|*Pop'n kimchi**] **Author:** Lochmann, Christina **Summary:** Rhyming text introduces kimchi, a Korean pickled cabbage, and how it's made. [|**We're riding on a caravan**] **Author:** Krebs, Laurie Nonfiction **Summary:** Rhyming text introduces the sights and sounds of the Silk Road, such as the Yellow River, the oasis at Dunhuang, the rugged desert near Hami, and the excitement of the market at Kashgar. Includes a history of this trade route and the places where people stopped along the way.

[|**D is for dragon dance**] **Author:** Ying Chang Nonfiction **Summary:** Introduces the wondrous traditions of a Chinese New Year through an illustrated and alphabetized review of such components as firecrackers, acrobats, and red envelopes

[|**Su Dongpo: Chinese genius**] **Author:** Demi Nonfiction **Summary:** "A biography of Su Dongpo, Chinese poet, civil engineer, and statesman, whose appreciation for nature and justice were evident in his works and led him to experience both triumph and adversity in 11th century China"--Provided by publisher.

[|*Traveling man: the journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354**] **Author:** |Rumford, James, 1948-]] Nonfiction **Summary:** Relates the adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five-thousand-mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco.

#|Added [|**The empty pot**] **Author:** Demi Nonfiction [|*The greatest power**] **Author:** Demi Fiction **Summary:** Long ago, a Chinese emperor challenges //**the**// children of his kingdom to show him //**the**// greatest power in //**the**// world, and all are surprised at what is discovered.
 * Summary:** When Ping admits that he is //**the**// only child in China unable to grow a flower from //**the**// seeds distributed by //**the**// Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.

[|**Ruby's wish**] **Author:** Shirin Yim Fiction....based on the true life of the author's relative **Summary:** In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins. #|Added