Grandma Becomes An Old Baby

by Yin Jianling (text) and Huang Jie (illustration)

When Millet was a little girl, Grandma was the person she loved the most. When Millet was crying, she didn’t want Dad and Mom. She would stop crying as long as Grandma held her up. After learning to walk, Millet became Grandma’s “little tail”. She would follow wherever Grandma went.

One day, when grandma went out walking alone, grandma couldn’t find her way home, she completely forgot the way home. Mom told Millet that Grandma had a forgetting disease

after took her to a hospital. Grandma's memory now is like a broken bag, and the things in it will be lost slowly little by little, and finally, she will forget who we are. Millet and Mom decided to take good care of grandma like grandma was a baby instead.

Hardcover, 36 pages, age 3-6

Jieli Publishing House, January 2016

Rights sold: 

Spanish/Chile, Italian, Chi-Eng bilingual/Singapore, Vietnamese, Arabic/Egypt, Complex Chinese/Taiwan.

Grandma’s Roof Garden

by Tang Wei

Grandma lives in a big city but she has to stay busy. She has this little garden on the roof

of her apartment and plants various vegetables. The building itself is cold and gray, but with grandma there it becomes a vivid and fun place to live.

“I hope this book could remind all my readers of their own grandma.”—Tang Wei.

Hardcover, 32 pages, age 3+

21ST Century Publishing House, January 2019

Rights sold: German.

The Day I Went and Visited

My Granny

by Da Wu

When the young kid awoke, he discovered that his grandma was ill and in the hospital, so he decided to pay her a visit on his own. He was terrified because he was worried about her, and he was alone on the road, but the tiny memories he carried with him made him courageous. Simultaneously, the adults who discovered the missing child ran out to look for him. The author describes how a child’s psychological actions when he is terrified intersect with reality and imagination. A lovely story of a grandparent and a grandchild’s love.

Hardcover, 32 pages, age 3+

Jieli Publishing House, October 2021

All rights available.

Flame

by Ernest Seton Thompson (original story) and Zhu Chengliang (Adapt and illustration )

Based on the well-known animal fiction of American novelist Ernest Seton Thompson.

Flame, the mother fox, was returning home with her two young children when one of

them got captured in a hunter’s trap. Flame was attempting to assist her child when the

hunter’s dogs discovered her and refused to let her go. How was she going to come up with a solution to help her kid escape the hunter? With movie-like colors, it’s a fantastic adventure of love and courage.

This sweet story about wildlife protection and parental love is beautifully illustrated.

Hardcover, 40 pages, age 4+

21ST Century Publishing House, June 2011

Rights sold: 

French(world) , English(USA, Canada), Korean(world).

The Gale

by Mo Yan (original story), adapted by Xiaoxiao, and Zhu Chengliang (illustration)

An adaptation of Nobel winner Mo Yan’s short story and illustrated by one of the most important Chinese illustrators Zhu Chengliang.

In order to supplement the family income, a young boy, Star, wakes up before dawn and goes with his grandfather to cut the thatch in the meadows. After a day’s hard work, his grandfather has cut enough grass to fill the cart. But on the way back home that evening, Star and his grandpa run into a violent gale…

Selected in the 2022 BRAW Amazing Shelf (Bologna)

Hardcover, 42 pages, age 3-6

21st Century Publishing House, August 2021

Rights sold: 

English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Croatian