Chen Li’s The Remote Head of the Yellow River is the story of an island boy looking for his father who was measuring the icy Yellow River. This book is a lovely book which is very portable(dimensions of 19cm x 13cm). Some of the other books written by Chen Li include: Three Gold Bricks, Mansul and Fadilah and the Magic Men.
Chinese books has many other books written in Chinese so that you can appreciate them in the original language in which they were written.