Author Description

"The 'Monkey Series' are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel 'Journal to the West', a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tang Priest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist scriptures. The real hero of this novel, loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey."--Page 4 of cover.