I am the Monkey King (series)
我是美猴王
Overview
Rights sold: Russian
I am the Monkey King is a fantasy adventure where a group of characters—the naughty little monkey Sun Wukong and his friends Bai Longma (the White Dragon Horse), Zhu Tianpeng (Pigsy), Niu Mowang (the Devil Bull King) and Jin Chanzi (the Golden Cicada) go on adventures while studying at a Taoist magic school.
Sun Wukong uses his magical superpowers, such as the Seventy-Two Transformations, the Invisibility Spell, and the Flying Nimbus to seek answers to some important questions in life.
There are 10 Volumes total in the series, with 4 volumes published.
Book 1: I Can Perform Seventy-Two Transformations
On Flower Fruit Mountain, the Monkey King is defeated by the Chaos Demon King, forced to seek a master for learning. Deceived by the Empty-Handed Daoist and manipulated by the Nine-Tailed Fox along the way, he finally, after enduring hardships, arrives under the tutelage of the true Patriarch Bodhi.
However, here, he can only start with menial tasks, sweeping, fetching water, meditation...
Seeing other disciples already mastering a skill or two, Sun Wukong is eager. Determined to take a risk, he decides to learn the expedited version of the Seventy-Two Transformations from the White Bone Queen, hoping to take a shortcut, make progress, and succeed.
Author(s)
Yang Peng (杨鹏), a renowned children's literature writer, is China's first contracted author with Disney and a leading figure in Children’s science fiction. His writing is witty and free-spirited. He has received awards such as the Song Qingling Children's Literature Award, the China Galaxy Science Fiction Award, the National Book Award, the Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award, and the Central Propaganda Department's "Five One Project" Award. Representative works include the "Dad in My Pocket" series and the "Campus Three Musketeers" series, with many of his works translated into English, French, Japanese, Korean, and other languages.