The MONKEY SERIES are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West, a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tang Priest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist scriptures. The real hero of this novel, loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey.
The Yellow Robe Monster, tells of the pilgrims' encounters with the fiendish Lady White Bone, and of what happens after Monkey is sent back to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit again. The Tang Priest soon falls into the clutches of the Yellow Robe Monster, who is too powerful for Pig and Friar Sand. So how can the Tang Priest be saved? The story will tell you.