Far East Genre
Books in the Far East genre:
Sonny Elephant: A Jungle Tale (1942)
This second edition has fewer pages and fewer illustrations to this story of an Indian elephant whose curiosity takes him to the edge of the forest to find out more about this creature, man.
Author(s):
Madge A. Bigham
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
When the Typhoon Blows (1942)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Adventures of Monkey (1943)
The roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies.
Author(s):
Arthur Waley
Ch’eng-en Wu
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Peter the Great (1943)
Author(s):
Nina B. Baker
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Big Green Umbrella (1944)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Boat Children of Canton (1944)
Author(s):
Marion B. Ward
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
You Can Write Chinese (1945)
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Li Lun: Lad of Courage (1947)
Author(s):
Carolyn Treffinger
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Dike Against the Sea (1948)
An exciting adventure, with two Chinese children, that teaches about life in China and about the values of Christian missions.
Author(s):
Mary Brewster Hollister
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Fish in the Air (1948)
Author(s):
Kurt Wiese
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Little Black Sambo (1948)
The classic story of a little Indian boy who turns the tables on a tiger who wants to eat him for breakfast. Later editions are much shortened.
Author(s):
Helen Bannerman
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1949)
Open sesame opens the treasure cave to Ali, but the thieves will try to recover their ill-gotten gains.
Author(s):
E. Powys Mathers
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Flowered Donkey (1950)
A story about a noisy, skewbald donkey, set in the Chinese countryside.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Margaret Mackay
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Quest in the Desert (1950)
An American scientific expedition to explore the Gobi Desert faces many dangers, but survives with the help of the leader's dog and a friendly Mongolian ruler.
Author(s):
Roy Chapman Andrews
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
A Town Like Alice (1950)
Author(s):
Neville Shute
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Golden Geography: A Child’s Introduction to the World (1952)
This is a brief survey of the the world’s geography, copiously illustrated.
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Author(s):
Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
The Wonderful Adventures of Ting Ling (1952)
Author(s):
Vernon Bowen
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
My Friend Yakub (1953)
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Ning’s Pony (1953)
Author(s):
Hester Hawkes
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Golden History of the World: A Child’s Introduction to Ancient and Modern Times (1955)
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Kim of Korea (1955)
Kim, a ten-year-old orphan, travels from Seoul to Inchon in search of an American soldier who has promised to adopt him and take him to America. He has never been away from his little hill town, and he has many adventures on the way.
Author(s):
Peter Lumn
Faith Norris
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Quest of the Snow Leopard (1955)
Author(s):
Roy Chapman Andrews
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
China’s Courts and Concubines: Some People in Chinese History (1956)
Author(s):
Bernard Llewellyn
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Hassan of Basorah (1958)
When the cruel magician strands Hassan on the mountain top he fears he is lost. The seven little sisters take him in and he meets the swan maiden, but his adventures are just beginning.
Author(s):
Monica Backway
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Best in Children’s Books Volume 23 (1959)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Rose Fyleman
Gladys Schwarcz
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Richard Bennett
Vladimir Bobritski
Feodor Rojankovsky
Et al
Land of Black Gold (1959)
Lord Jim (1959)
Driven from the sea by a youthful act of cowardice and betrayal, Jim makes a new life for himself, but is again faced with a life and death decision on which hinges the fate of many innocents.
Author(s):
Joseph Conrad
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Best in Children’s Books Volume 33 (1960)
Author(s):
Roger Duvoisin
Grace Moon
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Adrienne Adams
Richard Bennett
Richard Scarry
Et al
The Red Sea Sharks (1960)
Shan’s Lucky Knife (1960)
Author(s):
Jean Merrill
Illustrator(s):
Ronni Solbert
Where the Lion Trod (1960)
Author(s):
Gordon Shepherd
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
My Friend Yakub (1961)
The author describes his boyhood in a small Siberian village and his friend Yacub, a Tartar storyteller.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Silver from the Sea (1962)
At Long Hai beach in Vietnam a young native boy has his first exciting experience of helping to collect fish as his forefathers had always done.
Author(s):
Ruth Tooze
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Tintin in Tibet (1962)
Tintin and Haddock travel to the Himalayas to search for his friend who is reported lost after a plane crash.
Cape Lost (1963)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Jungle Books (1963)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Golden Geography: A Child’s Introduction to the World (1964)
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Yasu and the Strangers (1965)
Yasu is on a school trip to the temple of Nara in Japan when he finds a fawn and two American tourists who are lost.
Author(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Flight 714 (1968)
Tintin and his companions are hijacked to a desert island in the Celebes where they are rescued by extraterrestrials.
Five Hundred Animals from A to Z (1970)
Author(s):
Joseph A. Davis
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Miss Bianca in the Orient (1970)
Author(s):
Margery Sharp
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Land of Green Ginger (1975)
In this revised version, the original chapter 8 has been dropped. This leaves seven fewer illustrations. The rear cover is new. This edition was re-issued by Faber and Faber in 2001.
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mutiny on the Bounty (1978)
Author(s):
James Norman Hall
Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Enchanted Horse (1981)
Author(s):
Rosemary Harris
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Iron Lion (1983)
Author(s):
Peter Dickinson
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Some Words & Drawings from Edward Ardizzone’s Indian Diary (1983)
The artist was sent to India by UNESCO to teach a course in silk screen printing and here records his impressions. This was a publisher’s Christmas keepsake.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Indian Diary (1984)
The artist was sent to India by UNESCO to teach a course in silk screen printing and here records his impressions.
Author(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Serpent’s Children (1984)
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Rainbow People (1989)
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Star Fisher (1991)
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Tongues of Jade (1991)
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Rama and Sita (2002)
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Mosque (2003)
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story (2005)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
The Jungle Book Mowgli’s Story (2005)
The classic story of an Indian boy raised by wolves. This is the regular edition.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story (2009)
The classic story of an Indian boy raised by wolves. This is the paperback edition.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
The Jungle Book Panorama Pops (2015)
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley
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