When she is seven years old, Mulan meets Li Po who shows her how to write and read, teaches her how to use a sword and most importantly to excel at archery. In the years Hua Wei is absent, Mulan grows into an intelligent, courageous young girl who wants to learn more than just what women where normally taught she wants to learn how to read and write. He also forbade anyone to speak the name of his beloved wife, so that Mulan does not know her mother's name. Hua Wei's grief was so great that he has not returned home in thirteen years. He did so but while away with the emperor, his wife gave birth to Mulan and died. Son of Heaven granted Hua Wei permission to marry for love. The Chinese emperor, known as Son of Heaven, saw his beloved son, Prince Jian, captured by the Huns and Hua Wei had rescued him. Her father had been fighting against the Huns, a fierce tribe determined to over run northern China. She knew he was very courageous but did not know personally what her father looked like or who he really was. Mulan did not know her father, Hua Wei, while growing up because he was a great soldier who lived at court with the Emperor. Like many of her other books in the Simon Pulse "Once Upon A Time" series, Dokey's poetic prose is well suited to the telling of such wonderful legends and fairytales as Mulan and Scheherazade.īorn in the year of the monkey, Mulan lives on her father's estate in rural China. Don't let this unpretentious little novel fool you it's a well written, fascinating recounting of the Chinese legend of Mulan by well known author, Cameron Dokey.
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