The Fox who wanted Nine Golden Tails - Storytelling Performance and Picture Book
Since 2022![Digital painting of a cover for a children's book, titled 'The Fox who wanted Nine Golden Tails'. It shows a stylized red fox with its back arched downwards and its nine sparkling golden tails waving above its head and back, shimmering gold, pink, blue, and green. In the background a dark scaly shape with red har looms, and an eye can be seen. The title is written in gold on the cover. The style is textured with streamlined shapes.](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2023-02-08-the-fox-who-wanted-nine-golden-tails-cover.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1200&h=600)
This is a story I adapted into a version for Mandarin storytelling based off an early 20th-century American children's novel of almost the same name. The novel is loosely based on Japanese mythology and is already in the public domain. I initially wrote and performed the Mandarin adaption for the 398.2 Storytellin Festival 2022 organized by the Storytelling Association (Singapore), and I'm currently mulling over making it into a children's picture book.
Artworks
![Digital painting of a cover for a children's book, titled 'The Fox who wanted Nine Golden Tails'. It shows a stylized red fox with its back arched downwards and its nine sparkling golden tails waving above its head and back, shimmering gold, pink, blue, and green. In the background a dark scaly shape with red har looms, and an eye can be seen. The title is written in gold on the cover. The style is textured with streamlined shapes.](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2023-02-08-the-fox-who-wanted-nine-golden-tails-cover.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1920&h=960)
![Poster painting cut-out on a stick of a menacing Chinese dragon with blue scales, a yellow belly, sharp claws, and a flaming yellow and red mane, with gray smoke bellowing out of its nostrils.](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-dragon.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1824&h=2736)
![Poster painting cut-out on a stick of a red fox sitting on its haunches. The shadows are a cool blue and its busy tail is curled around its legs.](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-fox.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1824&h=2736)
![Poster painting cut-out on a stick of a white hare, sitting on its haunches and looking three-quarters left](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-hare.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1824&h=2736)
![Poster painting cut-out on a stick of a red fox with nine-golden tails. The fox is looking admiringly at his tails](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-kyubi/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-kyubi-I.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1824&h=2736)
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![](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-tortoise.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1824&h=2736)
![Poster painting cut-out on a stick of a common greenback frog, frontal three-quarter view in a resting pose](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-12-storytelling-prop-frog.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1824&h=2736)
![Simple spot digtal illustration of a common greenback frog from a frontal three-quarter view. The frog is in a resting position.](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-02-common-greenback-frog-portrait.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1600&h=1600)
![Digital painting close-up of a red fox, from its bust upward. The fox has its ears perked and is looking three-quarters to the left.](https://forest-of-mind.imgix.net/illustration-portfolio/portfolio/2022-11-01-red-fox-portrait.jpg?ixlib=gatsbySourceUrl-2.1.3&auto=format&w=1600&h=1920)
![Jun Qi - Art & Illustration](/static/d9ffa31449e301aa4446dcd759a59683/2e8cd/main-graphic.png)