China's Bravest Girl

A simple rhyming text keeps the pace brisk in this adaptation of a fifth-century Chinese legend about a young woman who goes to war to save her family's honor. Hua Mu Lan's father has no eldest son, and so the faithful daughter decides ``For love of her elderly father / she will dress in warrior's clothes, / walking and talking like a man, / so no one ever knows.'' Hua Mu Lan's ``courage wins the day,'' and a ``hundred battles,'' earning her the rank of general and the Emperor's highest esteem.

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