If its for older kids (8-12 and able to read reasonably well) you could check out the Warriors, Survivors, and Seekers series by "Erin Hunter". This is not an actual author, but a group that churns out tons of books from the standpoint of cats, dogs, and bears.

My kids adored the Warriors books (fantasy stories where all the characters are cats) and they are still into fan fiction as mid-teens. My wife and I read the first one with them when they were around 5-6 years old and it was so awful we refused to ever read another with them again. I think my oldest learned to read about that time just so she could keep reading them after that. At this point I think they own 20-30 of these books and enjoyed them immensely.

This week my kids both started reading Journey to the West, which is a set of 16th century Chinese novels written by Wu Cheng'en. I don't think it is quite what you're asking for, but I gather that a significant portion of it revolves around Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. I think they bought this Kindle version for $4. Apparently the Monkey King is the character in the recent game Black Myth: Wukong, which has made the book popular again.