Amongst all colorful candidate picture books, the monochromatic Going to the Marketplace is especially attractive. The author uses traditional wood-engraving and paper-cutting techniques to outline the fresh and sober image in black, which makes the seemingly monotonous black-and-white more impressive than otherwise. I always believe that colors in children's imagination are more vivid, three-dimensional, natural, and long-lasting than colors instilled. This work is nuanced with Chinese culture. The ancient story is simple and interesting. The repetition and development of the plot as well as the characters'progress and encounters are appropriate subject matters for picture books. It has long been a difficult task to combine the richness of eastern culture and the format of picture book from the west, but I think the bold attempt in this work is quite successful. Children may not be familiar with characters in this book, such as Monkey King, Lin Daiyu, Wu Song, Jiang Taigong, etc… Even so, they can still enjoy reading the story. In addition, through reading with children, adults can tell these “Dragon's descendants” the works and characters they ought to know. It is likewise for foreign children, who may even have fresher and stronger stimulation. It is not an easy task blending ancient culture in children's literature via contemporary methods. It is even harder making something national into something global and universal. The author must have put a lot of efforts creating this work. I believe that once Jiang Taigong's fishing in the end and the father and son's going to town is more smoothly related, this could be a world-class masterpiece.