Jean Fritz, author
Ed Young, illustrator
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988
ISBN: 978-0399215124
Written for younger readers this book is based on interviews with the survivors of the Long March made by the Communist Chinese Army in 1934 and 1935 to escape Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Nationalists. Led by Mao Zedong across China and its mountains to avoid the Nationalists and regroup to eventually defeat Chaing and rule the country.