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Author:
Fusco, John.
Title:
Little monk and the mantis : a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend / John Fusco ; with art by Patrick Lugo.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Tuttle Pub.,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
31 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Subject:
Kung fu--Juvenile picture books.
Monks--Juvenile picture book.
China--History--Juvenile picture books.
Other Authors:
Lugo, Patrick, ill.
Summary:
In ancient China, a young monk at the Shaolin Temple develops a new style of self-defense after spending the summer alone in the Song Mountains and observing a small praying mantis battling a much larger beetle. Based on the seventeenth-century legend of Wong Long and the founding of praying mantis kung fu.
ISBN:
0804842213 (hardcover)
9780804842211 (hardcover)
LCCN:
2011043962
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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