On a hot summer day, a group of animals wanted to find somewhere cool and shady in the desert desperately. Once they had spotted a tree, they competed fiercely in order to stand under the shadow of it. As they were fighting for the shadow, a father and his son crossing the dessert caught their attention: the father kept his son under his shadow in order to make his son staying cool. How will this scene affect the animals? 

Wenxuan CAO (writer), a professor of Chinese literature and children’s literature. He is the author of several celebrated books for young readers, including the novel Bronze and Sunflower. He was the first Chinese author to win the Hans ChrisWan Andersen Author Award. 

Rong YU (illustrator) was born in China, who was first trained as a primary school teacher, then studied for a BA in Chinese Paining and Contemporary Art Design and an MA in Communicaion and Design (Royal College of Art, London). She now lives near Cambridge, UK. She has been honored as BIB Golden Apple Illustrator in 2013. 

Publishing Time: Sep 2015

Dimension: 44 pages, 276×256mm

Age Group: 3+

Rights Sold: English (Australia, New Zealand, America), Korean, Swedish, French, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, Nepalese, German, Croatian