Look What Came From China!

by Miles Harvey

Describes many things, both familiar and unfamiliar, that originally came from China, including inventions, food, tools, animals, toys, games, musical instruments, fashion, medicine, holidays, and sports

Genres: China, Asia

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

Miles Harvey's new book is The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch, which National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick calls a "masterpiece" and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers describes as a "ludicrously enjoyable, unputdownable read." It will be published by Little, Brown & Co. in July 2020.

Harvey's previous work includes The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, a bestseller USA Today named one of the ten best books of 2000, and Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America, awarded an Editors’ Choice honor from Booklist, and a best-books citation from The Chicago Tribune. A former Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan, Harvey teaches creative writing at DePaul University, where he is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Here's a quick look at the many things that were invented in China throughout history. The Chinese were innovators that invented silk, the compass, wheelbarrows, sunglasses, and much, much more. This book is a friendly for lower grade kids, and even younger if they have good attention spans.

[Camille Tesch]

China ages 6-8