Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic mother where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle

where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea

Padma Lakshmi

playing instruments in a band

is the 13th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8

Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued

Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic mother where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncleBy Jiankun Sun Illustrated by Siyu Chen Translated by Howard Goldblatt The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese textfor fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout