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Keywords

animals, calendar, celebration, chinese, cycle, month, multicultural, rat, royalty, sequence

Title

Why rat comes first

Description

Jade King invites all of the animals in the land to his palace. When only 12 animals arrive, he decides to honor each within the 12 years of the calendar cycle. This explains the story behind the Chinese Zodiac and why the rat comes first.

Author

Yen, Clara

Publisher

Children's Book Press

Illustrator

ISBN

0-89239-072-7

City of Publication

San Francisco

Year of Publication

1991

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Sarah Leed, 1996

Citation

Yen, Clara, “Why rat comes first,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed June 3, 2023, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/7418.