Dingding and Dangdang 4 : Beyond the Mountain is Another Mountain
Dingding and Dangdang 5 : Grassroots Street
Dingding and Dangdang 6 : Black Sailor
Dingding and Dangdang 7 : Ant Elephant
This series was selected as one of IBBY’s Outstanding Books for Young People with Disability 2015.
Dingding and Dangdang are the heroes of this groundbreaking, moving new seven book series told in two voices. The brothers have Downs Syndrome and live in a small rural Chinese village.
Told almost as fable using magic realist elements, this series illuminates the difficulties and possibilities which Down’s Syndrome children facing in today’s China and reverberates elsewhere. In turns deeply sad, moving, joyous and ultimately hopeful, it is also a very readable and exciting adventure series.
Mr. Cao Wenxuan is a literature professor and doctoral supervisor at Peking University. As one of the best known children’s authors in China, he has won more than 40 awards and nominations, including the Han Christian Anderson Award 2016, the National Book Award of China, the National Excellent Children’s Literature Award and the Soong Ching Ling Children’s Litcrature Award. Many of his works have been translated into English, French, Japanese and Korean.