The Bird Queen

This beautifully illustrated multicultural children’s book tells a famous Chinese fable about how the ordinary brown bird, with persistence and perseverance, transforms herself into the Queen of birds and become the legendary Phoenix. *bilingual text, with English and simplified Chinese characters *lovely story tells the precious quality of being kind and persistent for children’s growth *a unique story of the mythical Phoenix originated from Chinese fables *a surprise in the section of “cultural explanation” at the end of the book—children can find an artwork with illustration of a Chinese phoenix, which is collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.