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.
Monkey saves 1,111 babies, tells what party arrive in a country whose king has been bewitched by a monster who tells him to eat the hearts of 1,111 boy babies. Monkey rescues the children and fights the monster until the Star of Longevity arrives and turns the monster back into its true form - a white deer.
