Chin Chiang has dreamed of dancing the dragon's dance but now the first day of the Year of the Dragon has arrived, and he is so scared that he wants to melt into his shoes.

Ten ghost stories dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America, from the poor village men who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake of the Cultural Revolution.

The story of a young Chinese girl arriving in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway, and how she finds a way through her grief.

One of the very first children's illustrated information books about Guru Nanak and the beginnings of the Sikh religion.

This book, which draws its story from Eric Valli's Oscar-nominated film about the Himalayan Dolpopo people, is illustrated by a painting made by Lama Tenzing Norbu.

In this wonderful middle-grade novel, Deborah Ellis brings us a feisty young heroine, Valli -- an orphan who lives on the streets of Kolkata, unaware that she has leprosy.

An engrossing fictional account of a young peasant boy caught up in the Taiping Rebellion told by master storyteller Katherine Paterson, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen and ALMA prizes.

Winner of the 2005 BolognaRagazzi Award.

A dramatic and beautifully illustrated autobiographical story of a young man living through the Chinese Cultural Revolution and discovering his artistic talents.

The truth is out as Maylin demonstrates when her fabulous cooking wins the day and not even the governor of South China can make a perfect copy of her dish.

A beautifully illustrated feminist graphic-novel version of the story of Sita from the great Indian epic -- The Ramayana.