Written by Laurence Yep. Illustrated by Kam Mak. First edition, 1997. HarperCollins Publishers.
In China long, long ago, there lived a poor old farmer with seven daughters. The land was so poor, it seemed he grew more rocks than rice. One afternoon, when the farmer was coming back from town, a huge dragon sprang from a nearby cave and seized the farmer in its paw. "Give me one of your daughters for a wife, and I'll give you your life as her bride price!"
The farmer asked each of his daughters save him. The first six said no. But the youngest daughter, Seven, agreed to marry the dragon. She climbed onto his back, and he flew with her to his palace beneath the sea. There, among riches beyond her wildest imagination, Seven discovers that her bridegroom is not at all what he seems.
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Laurence Yep (1948 - ) is an American writer of Chinese descent who has written more than 60 books for children and young adults. He started writing science fiction stories in high school and later earned a PhD in English literature. He is best known for his Golden Mountain Chronicles series, which explores the history and experiences of Chinese Americans from the 1840s to the present. He has won many awards for his work, including two Newbery Honors and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal.
Kam Mak is a Hong Kong-born illustrator who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has illustrated book jackets for various publishers, taught painting at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and designed stamps for the US Postal Service, including the Lunar New Year series and the koi postcard stamps. He is also the author and illustrator of My Chinatown: One Year in Poems, a book that celebrates his childhood memories of growing up in New York City's Chinatown.
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Condition: Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket: Light shelf wear; very small scuff on the front, top left. Quarter-bound gold-embossed red and brown cover boards. Pages are clean, undamaged, and complete.
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