Publisher's Synopsis
Ages 9 to 12 years. Text in Chinese & English. On a particularly clear night, a rock on the highest peak of the Flower and Fruit Mountain shatters open to give birth to an otherwise ordinary looking monkey. The monkey, however, is anything but ordinary. This extraordinary monkey journeys far across the oceans in search for immortality and rewrote the history of the magical world...Little did he know that the true journey of his life has yet to come. The Monkey King and the Book of Death is the first volume in the Monkey King series, adapted in modern English from Journey to the West (by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty), one of the most popular Chinese adventure and fantasy fiction of all times, telling the story of a magical monkey - the Monkey King, escorting a monk in his travels across a whole continent to obtain sacred scriptures from the West, fighting demons and overcoming endless difficulties and trials on the way to Enlightenment.
