Change on the Moon (Everlasting Tales)

ISBN: 0063295806

Author: Moore, Katrina

Condition: New

Everlasting Tales is a collection of multicultural fairy tales and folktales-honoring the stories passed down through oral tradition by refreshing and preserving them for new generations.Before she was the famous goddess of the moon, she was simply Change.Once upon a time, there lived a kind, beautiful woman named Change. She and her husband, Hou Yi, were deeply in love and existed in peaceful harmony . . . Until, one day, ten blazing suns rose into the sky and threatened everything they knew. But while the two worked together to save the lands from burning up-someone else they trusted was plotting against them.This epic romance follows how Changes bravery and selflessness saved her people and why, centuries later, they celebrate her and retell her story all over the world.In the first of the Everlasting Tales collection, multicultural folktales passed down through oral tradition now refreshed for a modern audience, Katrina Moore and Cornelia Li tell the Chinese legend of Change, the moon goddess. Back matter includes an author's note and a condensed tale in Mandarin for bilingual readers, perfect all year and during mid-Autumn Festival celebrations.