Little monk and the mantis
Subtitle: a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend
By: John Fusco ; with art by Patrick Lugo
Contributors: Lugo, Patrick, ill
Publisher: Tuttle Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tokyo; Rutland, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804842211
Subjects: Kung fu; Monks; Fiction
Description: 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.