Monkey Creates Havoc in Heaven

by Wu Cheng'en, Fei Chan Fu, Jill Morris (Translator)

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.
This series tells three stories:
The Beginnings of Monkey,
Monkey Makes Havoc in Heaven,
Monkey's Conversion.
7.25X10.25X0.65(inch), 233 Pages

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

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Wu Cheng'en (simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn, ca. 1505–1580 or 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), pen name "Sheyang Hermit," was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, best known for being the probable author of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, also called Monkey.