Five Color Dog is one of the titles in the Snowflake Books series: Animal Signs. Quoted from ancient Chinese legends, all built around the legendary animal race, these stories are known and loved by all Chinese children. Thus, the books provide an informal and accessible way to introduce western children to an important aspect of Chinese life and culture at home, and introduce diversity studies into education.

Each book tells the story of one of the animals of Chinese zodiac signs, which are also used as names of years in the Chinese calendar. It is clear that five dog dogs are a magical dog because the legend says it is not born the usual way, but from a small worm living in percussion covered with a board.

Hence the name of his story of pumpkin painting. The shepherd's wife realizes that he is so special that he is not a dog and encourages him to explore the wider world.

The pumpkin plate is of course taken care of, courageous and loyal and risking his life to save the drunk king from bush fire. The slab is badly wounded as he searches for magical herbs to treat Princess Little Lotus as she dies of a mysterious illness.

But, with the magic of the mountain god, the sincere tears of Little Lotus fall on the pumpkin plate healed turn, and becomes a human. It is interesting that the legends of the people of Mount Yao and their people in China say that they come from a legendary dog ​​named Panhu, and the Gourd.As with all Chinese traditional animal stories, their misleading simplicity is a means of displaying the richness and diversity of human personality and feeling.

The Chinese believe that the year of the animal for the birth of the person affects the personality; the animals in these legends exhibit somewhat their own zodiacal qualities, in this case a combination of attention to courage and loyalty. This is a completely new version of the ancient legend, rewritten in English is simple, To young children, or to older children who learn Mandarin.

Full bilingual text with encoded key words and Mandarin English vocabulary. The parallel text in Pinyin, using the Roman alphabet, allows readers to pronounce Chinese characters.

Buying a book allows access to a mobile e-book with audio in English and / or Chinese. High production quality, with good quality paper, full original colorful illustrations on each page and traditional binding..