Books published by publisher Weatherhill

From a wealth of stories that make up the legendry of Vietnam, the present book makes a selection of those most representative of the genre, most revealing of Vietnamese ways of life and thought, and most interesting for western readers. Engagingly retold by an American who taught at the University of Saigon, and charmingly illustrated by one of Vietnam's leading artists, the stories form a small treasury of the storyteller's art. No such discriminating collection has appeared in English before, and the book can thus serve as a delightful and informative introduction to a land still too little known - a land whose people, in the words of one of their time-honored sayings, "live on rice and legends and myths."

Here is a book that might well be called "the japanese Mother Goose". It beautifully communicates the essence of Japanese childhood in a form that is immediately and delightfully understandable to children of other lands and cultures. In deft translation of 53 best-loved nursery songs and 55 pages of charmingly original illustrations the book offers an entertaining and instructive look at another country. (copied from dust jacket flaps).