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 is the fifth in a series of thirty-four picture books telling the story of Monkey, adapted from the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West.