Wukong & Friends
Little adventures. Lovely dreams.

A little wonder.
A softer goodnight.

Join Wukong, Pigsy and friends as today turns gently into a dream.

Bedtime picture books in English and Chinese for little readers. Be curious, keep trying, and learn to be kind to a friend.

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Free to download and lovely to fold into little books. 33 stories

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Robot Pigsy

Pigsy plays robot and does what Wukong says, in exactly that order: shoes before socks, and the hat on his foot! Wukong and Jade Rabbit draw one step on each card and check the order. Now Pigsy gets every step right, and Wukong takes a turn as the robot.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Pigsy’s Boing-Boing Band

Pigsy makes a box frog with two rubber bands. Pluck! Boing! But when Wukong presses the band, the sound stops. Nezha says watch and listen: the band shakes so fast it looks blurry. It vibrates, and that makes the sound. Then they play a gentle little song.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong and the Missing Ice Cube

Wukong leaves an ice cube on a tray while he and Ao Bing make it a flag. When he comes back, the ice cube is gone! Ao Bing explains: the kitchen is warm, so the ice melted into water. Sandy freezes the water in a fish mold, and by morning it is ice again.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong’s No-Touch Fish

A paper fish swims along a paper river, and nobody is touching it! Is Iron Fan blowing it? No: Sandy has a magnet under the board. The friends test wood, plastic, aluminum and steel. Only steel sticks, so Wukong’s fish needs a steel piece to swim too.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong’s Picnic Vote

Six friends finish their picnic on the peach hill. Kite, bubbles or drawing first? Everyone shouts at once, and nobody can hear! Jade Rabbit draws a chart and gives each friend one star sticker. The tallest column wins: kite first, then bubbles and drawing.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Ao Bing’s Little Boat

Wukong and Ao Bing want to give a little leaf a boat ride, but their clay ball sinks. Plop! No dragon magic: they change its shape instead. A flat pancake sinks too, but pinch up the edges and the hollow boat floats! Same clay, new shape.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Princess Iron Fan’s Pattern Parade

Princess Iron Fan hangs flags for a little parade: red, red, gold, again and again. Wukong hurries, and one group comes out wrong! With claps and stomps, the friends check one group at a time, fix the pattern, and march: step, step, swish!

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Pigsy’s Nine Little Cookies

Pigsy bakes nine little cookies to share with Wukong and Rabbit. Wukong deals them out four, three, two. Not fair! So they share in turns, one for each plate, round and round. After three rounds everyone has three, and three plates are enough.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Nezha’s Shape Town

Nezha’s paper town needs one more square window, but only two blue triangles are left. Wukong wears them as a pointy hat, then Rabbit shows how turning them makes the long sides fit — a square! The same two pieces make a big triangle too.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong and the Copycat Shadow

At shadow-show night, Wukong thinks a giant copycat is following him. Rabbit shows him it is his shadow: he blocks the light. Nearer the lamp, a puppet’s shadow grows big; farther away, it shrinks. And when the lamp goes off, the copycat goes home.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong Wants to Play Too

Pigsy, Rabbit and Ao Bing are rolling a ball in a circle. Wukong wants to play so much that he runs in and grabs it. Sandy shows him another way: look, ask, wait. Soon there is room in the circle for everyone.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong Visits the Dentist

Wukong visits the dentist with Sandy. The chair goes up like a little cloud, but the bzzz sounds like a big bee! The dentist promises to stop whenever he raises his hand — and she does. Wukong asks, gets ready, and goes home with a new toothbrush.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong Visits the Pumpkin Patch

Wukong, Ao Bing and Nezha head into a corn maze on the way to the pumpkin field. Nezha dashes ahead and they pop out back at the start, so they look for clues: left at the scarecrow, right at the pumpkins, straight ahead — and a pumpkin each to take home.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong’s Little Dinosaur Halloween

Wukong has a brand-new dinosaur costume and a big, loud ROAR. But when a tiny hedgehog opens the first door, Wukong finds a softer way to say trick or treat. Ring the bell, take one, say thank you — and share with a friend.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong’s Starry Stage

Wukong sets up a little stage for story night. Six paper stars, then two more from Rabbit — eight altogether. The entrance needs some too, so they take away three: five are left on the curtain, but still eight altogether. And Pigsy has an idea for the moon.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Big Cards, Little Numbers

Nezha paints a big card with a 3 and a small card with a 5. Wukong is sure the big card wins, until Rabbit’s beads show that five is more than three. Big card or small card, the number tells how many.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Princess Iron Fan’s Ribbon Parade

Princess Iron Fan plans a ribbon parade. Wukong’s rolled-up ribbon looks shortest, then he tries a sneaky start. Lined up at the same line, the ribbons go short, longer, longest.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Pigsy’s Peach Puzzle

Pigsy is sure three big peaches are more than five small ones. Wukong and Rabbit line them up in pairs to compare, and Pigsy finds out: big or small, one peach is one peach.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong and the Block Bridge

The toy train needs a bridge over a blue cloth river. Wukong and Ao Bing measure with different blocks and disagree, until Pigsy brings blocks of the same size: end to end, no gaps, the river is four blocks wide.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong’s Missing Picnic Cup

Wukong sets out cups for his picnic friends: one, two, three, four. But when he sits down, his own hands are empty! Counting again, everyone finds the friend he forgot: Wukong himself.

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22 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong Visits the Aquarium

Wukong visits an aquarium with Ao Bing and Sandy. He watches kelp, a hiding fish, jellyfish, and a sea otter, then draws three favorites on his card.

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22 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong Learns to Swim

Wukong is curious about swimming, but the pool feels big. With Coach Otter nearby and Ao Bing cheering him on, he practices bubbles, floating, and kicks until he swims a little way on his own.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong Plays in the Sand

Wukong and his friends try dry sand, then add too much water. They adjust the mix and build a sand tower together. At the end, Wukong finds a little mountain in his shoe.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong’s Painting Class

Wukong turns a brown paint blob into a little bear. Nezha paints a rainbow unicorn, Pigsy paints a bunny, and together they make one happy picture.

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18 pages · Children’s crayon doodles

Wukong and the Snowy Zigzags

Wukong and Princess Iron Fan learn to ski, one snowy zigzag at a time. Jade Rabbit cheers them on, and warm cocoa and fish crackers make a happy finish.

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Small words, big feelings.

Short sentences in English and Chinese to read slowly together, for family storytime and children beginning to recognize words.

Friends make room.

Pigsy is one of Wukong’s best friends. They care for each other and leave room for everyone to learn at their own pace.

A warm bedtime feeling, many kinds of endings.

Stories end in different ways—sometimes with a goodnight, sometimes with a small celebration or a new thought to carry into dreams.

A little kindness goes a long way

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