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Far East Genre
Books in the Far East genre:
The Golden History of the World: A Child’s Introduction to Ancient and Modern Times (1955)
A brief illustrated world history.
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)
A collection of Chinese historical vignettes based on personages of the royal courts.
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)
A Burmese folktale about a boy from the hills who outwits the owner of the ship.
Author(s):
Jean Merrill
Illustrator(s):
Ronni Solbert
Where the Lion Trod (1960)
An account of the legacy of the British Raj in India, not long after independence.
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)
Gabrielle wants to go into the family business of sheep ranching in New Zealand.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
The Jungle Books (1963)
The complete adventures of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Golden Geography: A Child’s Introduction to the World (1964)
This revised edition is significantly shorter than the original.
Author(s):
Jane Werner Watson
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt
Tales and Legends from India (1965)
Traditional tales from Assam, where the author has lived for many years.
Author(s):
Iris Macfarlane
Illustrator(s):
None
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)
Surely the largest, most inclusive animal picture book of them all.
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)
An Indian tale of twin princes and a magic horse.
Author(s):
Rosemary Harris
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Iron Lion (1983)
The suitor who would win the princess must bring the iron lion, alive or dead.
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)
In nineteenth-century China a young girl struggles to protect her family
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Rainbow People (1989)
Twenty Chinese folktales brought to the United States.
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
The Star Fisher (1991)
A Chinese-American family moves from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920’s.
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Tongues of Jade (1991)
A collection of seventeen Chinese-American folktales.
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner
Rama and Sita (2002)
A retelling of a Hindu epic poem.
Author(s):
David Weitzman
Illustrator(s):
David Weitzman
Mosque (2003)
Details the building of a sixteenth century mosque.
Author(s):
David Macaulay
Illustrator(s):
David Macaulay
The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story (2005)
The classic story of an Indian boy raised by wolves. This is the limited edition.
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)
The story of Mowgli, the man-cub, told in pop-ups.
Author(s):
Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s):
Nicola Bayley