Author & illustrator

Wu Jing

Pages

32pp

Publication Year

2023

Chinese Publisher

Guangxi Normal University Publishing House

Rights Sold

World rights available.

Winter · Spring Festival
FOUR AUSPICIOUS SEASONS series
冬 · 春节 ——“四时吉祥”系列

How do contemporary Chinese people celebrate the traditional Spring Festival? This book depicts traditional customs and scenes from Laba celebrations such as New Year’s Eve and the Lantern Festival. In the story, the Chinese Zodiac gathers and joins the adults and children in celebrating the New Year.

The story not only preserves traditional customs, but also depicts modern China. The illustrations present a new China that is both ancient and fashionable.

This is the first book in the “Four Auspicious Seasons” series.

About the Author

Wu Jing, graduated from the Department of Decoration, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. Freelance illustrator specializing in drawing and designing of children’s books and merchandise. In 2020, she won the Bingxin Children’s Book Award. Her representative works include Golden Bird, Panda’s Happy Chinese Year and World Heritage in China. 

From the Book

Author

Wang Yage

Illustrator

Zhu Chengliang

Pages

42pp

Publication Year

2017

Chinese Publisher

New Century Publishing House

Rights Sold

English, Korean, French, Portuguese

Playing with Lanterns
打灯笼

Zhao Di wishes the New Year would never end!

Zhao Di and her friends are excited to go out at night with their paper lanterns and celebrate Chinese New Year. Each holding a unique colorful lantern with a lit candle inside, they admire the breathtaking colors while doing their best to avoid the wind and the sneaky boys in the village. Every night, until the fifteenth day of New Year, Zhao Di and her friends take part in this fun tradition, experiencing the thrill of nighttime in their village. And then—it’s time to smash the lanterns!

Details about the paper lantern tradition are also included in an author’s note at the end of the book.

About the Illustrator

Zhu Chengliang is an award-winning Chinese illustrator. Born in Shanghai and raised in Suzhou, he studied at the Department of Fine Art at Nanjing University and has worked as an author, illustrator, editor, and designer. He was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2016. His books have been named to the IBBY Honour List, received first prize in the Feng Zikai Children’s Book Award contest, been named one of the Ten Best Illustrated Books by the New York Times, and been named Runner Up in the UNESCO Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations.

From the Book

Author

Li Yan

Illustrator

Yu Dawu

Pages

56pp

Publication Year

2020

Chinese Publisher

21st Century Publishing House

Rights Sold

World rights available.

Long’s Stilts

龙的高跷

Walking on stilts is a quite common and well-liked game in northern China, including Beijing, especially on the Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year. On that day, everyone can be like a skywalker.

Long loves the game, too, as many of his peers, so they finally took their courage, and put on their own stilts.

A resect of Chinese folk art and handicrafts, a view of the culture behind them.

the latest title of one UNESCO awarded, born-in-Beijing illustrator

About the Author

Li Yan, born in Yanqing, Beijing in 1983, has been immersed in the unique intangible cultural heritage of her hometown since a child. After working in the picture book industry for many years, she came up with the idea of combining traditional folk treasures with modern picture book art, hoping to contribute to the promotion of national culture. Long's Stilts is her picture book debut.

Yu Dawu, born in Beijing in 1948, grew up in a hutong inside Andingmen. Passionate about art, he studied painting at the Children's Palace behind Jingshan when he was a child, and began publishing works in 1972. He was engaged in the editing of picture albums and children's books at the People's Art Publishing House, and created many comic books and children's book illustrations during the same period. He is good at using gongbi painting techniques to depict classical literary genres and express the beauty of traditional Chinese painting. In 1988, Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King won the Grand Prize of the 6th Noma International Picture Book Original Painting Competition of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Center for Asia, and was published by Kodansha in Japan in 1990. His other children's picture book works include Beijing City Is Planned With the Forbidden City and Beijing's Spring Festival.

From the Book

Author & Illustrator

Yu Dawu

Pages

40pp

Publication Year

2012

Chinese Publisher

Sinocomic Century Publishing House

Rights Sold

Japanese, English (USA)

Beijing City Is Planned With the Forbidden City

北京 中轴线上的城市

Beijing city is structured perfectly symmetrically. As both architectural and historical center of Beijing City, the Forbidden City now has become one of the most well-known museums of Chinese history and culture. Follow the pages, let’s take a grand tour to see this city with both traditional and modern side. The first non-fiction about the architectural structure of ancient Beijing City with detailed illustrations.

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