This is another brand new list - we need suggestions to get things moving. :)General Resources
The Silk Route: 7000 Years of History by John Major
China
The Empty Pot by Demi
The Five Chinese Brothers
The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann
Growing Up in Ancient China by Ken Teague
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Tikki-Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
What's in a Chinese Character? by Tan Huay Peng
India
Saint Francis of the Seven Seas
Japan
Count Your Way Through Japan by James Haskins
Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain by Deborah Kogan Ray
Japanese Fairy Tales (Japan)
Movies: Ikiru and others by Akira Kurosawa
Korea
Malaysia
Mongolia
Nepal
Taiwan
Thailand
Anna and the King (movie - high school/adult)
Tibet
Seven Years in Tibet (movie - high school)
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Tintin in Tibet! Herge' considered it his best. But... is it considered a book?
Two beautiful G rated films:
The Road Home (China)
Children of Heaven (Iran)
China:
Betz, Eva K. To Far Places: The Story of Francis X. Ford (Maryknoll Missionary to China, murdered by Communists) 1950's (Credo Books)
The Philippines:
Gray, Marvin M. Island Hero: The Story of Ramon Magsaysay (President of Philippines) 1953-57 (Credo Books)
Thailand:
Rau, Margaret Dawn From the West: The Story of Genevieve Caulfield (Blind American teacher who started school for the blind in Thailand) (Credo Books)
Could we start an African list too?
for Korea: A Single Shard by
Linda Sue Park
India
Rudyard Kipling, including The Jungles Books, and Kim, as well as poetry
The Samurai and the Tea: A Legacy of Japan’s Early Christians by Cathy Brueggemann-Beil [Imprint]
Ancient China (DK Eyewitness)
Russia (DK Eyewitness)
Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China by Suzanne Williams
Growing Up in Ancient China by Ken Teague
The Story of Noodles by Ying Chang Compestine, illustrated by Yong Sheng Xuan
The Empress and the Silkworm by Lily Toy Hong
Buddha by Demi
The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher
The Story of Paper by Ying Chang Compestine
The Darkness and the Dawn, A Novel by Thomas Costain – tells the story of Attila the Hun.
All Men Are Brothers / Shui Hu Chuan by Shi Nai’an, translated by Pearl Buck
The Black Rose by Thomas Costain
Travels by Marco Polo
Set All Afire: A Story About St. Francis Xavier by Louis de Wohl [Ignatius]
St. Francis of the Seven Seas (Vision Book) by Alfred J. Nevins, MM [Ignatius]
The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Christian Haugard
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth F. Lewis
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck - parental advisory on this one.
Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong, illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Up Periscope by Robb White
Crow Boy by Taro Yashimo
Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams by Ann Tompert
Science in Ancient China by George Beshore
Science in Ancient India by Melissa Stewart
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