Cao Wenxuan

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2006
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Straw Houses

    Straw Houses includes several seemingly ordinary yet touching stories, all told and presented through the boy Sang Sang’s point of view. They reveal not only the touching moments of human life, but also Sang Sang’s inner psychology. Here in th...

  • The Straw House

    Set in China’s Jiangnan area in the early 1960s, The Straw House centers around ordinary village life and follows a young boy named Sang Sang. Within the seemingly simplistic life of everyday China emerge several interwoven, deeply moving storie...

  • The Call of the Sky

  • Bronze and Sunflower

    Sunflower is an only child, and when her father is sent to the rural Cadre School, she has to go with him. Her father is an established artist from the city and finds his new life of physical labor and endless meetings exhausting. Sunflower is lonely...

  • Feather

    A philosophical picture book from one of China's most celebrated children's authors and 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award-winner Cao Wenxuan. A feather is blown across the sky, meeting various birds along the way, and asking each one, "Do I belong t...

  • Summer

    Summer is a poetic, inspirational picture book about the power of kindness from two of China's most acclaimed creators―and children will discover a surprise as they turn the pages! During a hot summer day in the grasslands, a group of animal...

  • The Last Leopard

    Follow the moving journey of a lone leopard in his search to find other leopards. Along his journey, he meets other creatures, constantly questioning whether he is the last leopard in the world. His wish is, in part, granted when he finally sees anot...

  • The Wooden Fish

    In the middle of a great big river, there stands a single wooden post. It is a seemingly useless piece of wood, because the lone post cannot form a bridge by itself. Day after day, the wooden post longs to have friends and to be free. Instead, it is ...

  • Lemon Butterfly

    11/02/2020The team behind Feather follows a butterfly that pursues its goal with determination, seeking flowers—“To a butterfly, a field of flowers is the most beautiful thing in the world”—to no avail. Mello illustrates with ...



  • Dragonfly Eyes

    A 2023 Batchelder Honor Book From acclaimed Chinese author Cao Wenxuan, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award, comes a compelling family saga spanning fifty years and three generations. Ah-Mei and her French grandmother, Nainai, share a rar...

  • The Red Tiles

    Although Cao has tried many themes, morality, the appreciation of beauty, and compassion have remained the three main areas of his writing. The Red Tiles is a collection of Cao’s latest short stories. In these stories, he writes beautifully abo...

  • Umbrella Over Berlin

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cao Wenxuan has published 12 books.

Cao Wenxuan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Umbrella Over Berlin, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Cao Wenxuan, Straw Houses, was published in September 2006.

No. Cao Wenxuan does not write books in series.
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