This is the most well-known legend in the Eastern world about how the Animal Zodiac started. It is the first book of our Stories of Animal Signs series. This book begins with the legend of how cats and mice became mortal enemies. We also learn how thinking outside of the box secured the victory for Mouse. This story is similar to the Tortoise and the Hare which teaches us: slow and steady wins the race. In the case of Mouse, creative thinking gave him the upper hand against the bigger and faster animals to become the sign of the first Chinese year.
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Snowflake Books makes beautiful picture story books that are based on old Chinese legends, specially re-written in English for young children. The stories are warm and sympathetic and aim to introduce traditional Chinese life and wisdom to Western children. The stories are also shown in Chinese and special features help to introduce children easily to the Chinese language. These books are beautifully illustrated with water colour or traditional paper cutting style in English-Simplified Chinese format. All the books includes full pinyin text, an audio CD for the story to be read in both English and Chinese and an English-Chinese-pinyin vocabulary at the end.
