Bibliograph

Little monk and the mantis, a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend, John Fusco ; with art by Patrick Lugo

Type

Label

Little monk and the mantis, a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend, John Fusco ; with art by Patrick Lugo

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Little monk and the mantis

Oclc number

746836882

Responsibility statement

John Fusco ; with art by Patrick Lugo

Sub title

a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend

Summary

In ancient China, a young monk at the Shaolin Temple develops a new style of self-defense after spending the summer alone in the Song Mountains and observing a small praying mantis battling a much larger beetle. Based on the seventeenth-century legend of Wong Long and the founding of praying mantis kung fu

Target audience

juvenile

Classification