Yi-min and the Elephants
Author(s): Caroline Heaton
Folktales, Fairytales, Legends
Yi-Min, the smallest and most indulged daughter of the Chinese Emperor, longs to seen an elephant. Her father agrees to take her on an elephant hunt, but when Yi-Min sees a big wolf, she mistakes it for an elephant, and the same happens with a stripy tiger and a shaggy brown bear.
Product Information
CAROLINE HEATON is a children's librarian and has co-edited two anthologies of short stories, Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters and Caught in a Story: Contemporary Fairytales and Fables. Tim Vyner won the 2001 Royal Watercolour Society's Fresh Fields Award for work painted in China. His books include Sue Vyner's The Stolen Egg, Arctic Spring, which won the Earthworm Junior Fiction Award in 1993, The Coral Trail, Marcial Boo's The Butterfly Kiss and his own books The Tree, Dragon Mountain and Swallow Tale.
General Fields
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- : francl
- : francl
- : 01 August 2002
- : 233mm X 287mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Caroline Heaton
- : Hardback
- : illustrated edition
- : Tim Vyner
- : 823.92
- : 4-8
- : 32
- : colour illustrations