A young boy must become the greatest cricket warrior of all time in order to save his family in this stirring folktale about bravery and sacrifice.
This retelling of the Chinese folktale, ?The Fighting Cricket,? first recorded in the seventeenth century, is a tale of extraordinary bravery, sacrifice, and familial devotion. Young Wei nian's family is in trouble. Their farm has been fruitless for three years and their only hope of keeping it is to find a cricket for the emperor's cricket fights. When Wei nian accidentally loses the cricket that they capture he is devastated, but an old man offers him a choice. Will Wei nian become the greatest cricket warrior of all to save his family? And if he does, will he ever find his way home again?
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Margaret Chang, a former children's librarian, holds an MA in children's literature and for seventeen years taught graduate and undergraduate courses in children's literature at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She and Raymond have published an introduction to the Chinese language, as well as four children's books set in China, among them Cricket Warrior. Her most recent book for children is Celia's Robot. She and Raymond now live on Bainbridge Island, Washington.