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Title: Stories behind Chinese Idioms (I)
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1602209650
EAN: 9781602209657
ISBN: 9781602209657
Publisher: Shanghai Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 10/10/2010
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 191mm
Item Weight: 255g
Author: Zheng Ma, Zheng Li
Illustrator: Su Taixi, Wang Xiaoming
Contributor: Su Taixi (Illustrated by), Wang Xiaoming (Illustrated by)
Genre: Children's Books
Description: By reading ancient Chinese myths in a fun story setting, kids will learn the meanings behind some of China's most famous idioms.

Chinese language has a very special category of Chinese idioms called chengyu, a unique style of idiom always told in four characters. Every idiom has a fascinating story behind it, sometimes drawn from history, and other times told as a parable. With great illustrations and characters, this full-color book will be perfect for your child's bedtime stories.

Chinese stories include:

• Getting Out of the Jaws of Death
• An Attempt to Scoop Up the Moon from a Well
• A Bird Startled by the Mere Twang of a Bowstring
• The Less a Man Has Seen, the More He Has to Wonder at
• Waiting for More Hares by the Tree Stump

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