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    Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, A Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend
    Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, A Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend
    Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, A Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend
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    Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, A Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend

    By John Fusco and Patrick Lugo

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    "Engaging and knowledgeable…brings magical light and clarity to veiled martial arts history. In a cocoon shell, a man 'tis not a mantis til Fusco's faithful rendering of true life hero Wong Long bugs the Shaolin elders into accepting the teachings and virtues of the world's most dynamic insect…the praying mantis.--Dr. Craig D. Reid, Martial Arts Historian"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateAug 21, 2012
    ISBN9781462908868
    Little Monk and the Mantis: A Bug, A Boy, and the Birth of a Kung Fu Legend
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    John Fusco

    John Fusco is the author of Paradise Salvage, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel. He has written ten major motion pictures, including Young Guns, Hidalgo, and the Academy Award-nominated Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Fusco is the creator of the Netflix Original Series Marco Polo and has also just written the long-awaited sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Most recently, he has adapted Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist for the Weinstein Company. He lives on a farm in Northern Vermont with his wife.

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      Little Monk and the Mantis is intended as a children's book. But the story and message are so well done and the illustrations so charming that it will appeal to readers of any age. It's a classical Chinese tale about the boy who created the martial art known as Kung Fu (although it's made clear that Kung Fu has a larger meaning). Little Wong Long, an orphan living in a temple, is feeling so ashamed of his failure in martial arts that he runs away. Studying nature, he finds his own unique style and becomes a legend. The story is full of wisdom about Chinese culture, martial arts, and growing up.

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    Little Monk and the Mantis - John Fusco

    Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

    www.tuttlepublishing.com

    Copyright © 2012 John Fusco

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Fusco, John.

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

               p. cm.

    Summary: 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.

    ISBN: 978-1-4629-0886-8 (ebook)

    [1. Kung fu--Fiction. 2. Monks--Fiction.] I. Lugo, Patrick, ill. II. Title.

    PZ7.F966657Li 2012

    [E]--dc23

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