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Little monk and the mantis

by John Fusco

FictionMonksKung fuJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionMartial arts, fictionMonasticism and religious orders, fiction

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.

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Book data: Open Library