20. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

A recommendation! Grace Lin's Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, for anyone who likes fairytales, China, effortlessly engaging fairytale adaptations, stories-within-stories that grow to intertwine gracefully with the story proper, or beautiful but understated prose.

Also dragons. And talking goldfish. Dream logic. A clever, determined heroine. And splendid, splendid full-color illustrations.