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Far East Genre
Books in the Far East genre:
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 from the Japanese Storytellers (1964)
These tales told by Japanese hanashika (storytellers) are a small sample of those collected by Post Wheeler, an American diplomat.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Post Wheeler
Illustrator(s):
Yoshie Noguchi
Cities of Gold and Isles of Spice (1965)
The people of Europe were eager to buy spices from the island nations of the far east.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Valiant Chattee-Maker (1965)
In this Indian folk tale, a pottery-maker captures a tiger in a drunken rage and is made commander of the Rajah's army where he singlehandedly puts to flight an invading army.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
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
The Beautiful Blue Jay, and Other Tales of India (1967)
A collection of twenty-five contemporary tales from India.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
None
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 City of the Dagger and Other Tales from Burma (1971)
Ten traditional tales from Burma.
Author(s):
H. H. Keely
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
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
Terry and the Pirates Color Sundays Volume 1 1934-1935 (1984)
Author(s):
Milton Caniff
Illustrator(s):
Milton Caniff
Terry and the Pirates Dailies and Black and White Sundays Volume 1 1934-1935 (1984)
Author(s):
Milton Caniff
Illustrator(s):
Milton Caniff
The Rainbow People (1989)
Twenty Chinese folktales brought to the United States.
Author(s):
Laurence Yep
Illustrator(s):
David Wiesner