I had to read this book for a Literature class I am taking. I found it difficult to read. The characters names were often so similar that you were confused about who was who.

I did think that some of the stories had cute references about how things came to be (i.e. the story about the Chop-Sticks).

Unfortunately, had I not been forced to read it for class I don't think I would have read further than the first couple of stories.

This book, which won the 1926 Newbery Medal for best contribution to American children's literature, is a collection of stories about the Chinese told as if they were folk tales (however, I have later discovered that they may not be true folktales but Chrisman's original stories). I didn't really care for them and I wouldn't recommend them strongly for children today. But, I'm probably in the minority with that viewpoint.

This book was a collection of Chinese folk tales for children.A few were cool,but some were boring.If you love newberrys or folk tales,you'll like the book.I only read it cause I like newberrys and hope to read them all.Also they sometimes use Chinese words and tell you what they mean,but the sentence won't make sense.