Note: The 2004 printing references its language as "Chinese," but as indicated below, at a later time Mantra Lingua began referring to it as "Cantonese." A 2019 reprint refers to its own language as "Cantonese" and I can find no textual difference from the 2004 book, but it has been given a different ISBN (9781844440252 [the addition of the prefix 978- is trivial, but the final digit also differs]).

32 pp. (unpaginated); color illus. Bilingual prose text on each page tells Beowulf's story up to his return to Geatland. This is one of many versions of a bilingual picturebook pairing Barkow's English text with a translation of it into another language. As of 8/15/19, the Mantra Lingua online catalog lists the following 17 languages available: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Italian, Mexican Spanish, Panjabi, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, and Urdu (http://usa.mantralingua.com/product-type/Book?combine=beowulf). Some of the printed books, in a statement on the back cover, additionally list Czech and "Serbo-Croatian" among available languages, and refer to "Chinese" rather than "Cantonese."

The text begins:

你們聽過嗎?

他們說如果太多談話及笑聲, 格蘭度便會來把你拖走, 你們未聽過格蘭度嗎? 那麽我想你們也未聽過貝奧伍爾夫, 細心聆聽, 讓我將最偉大的格茲勇士及他如何對抗兇殘惡魔格蘭度的故事告訴你們吧。

Did you hear that?

They say that if there is too much talking and laughter, Grendel will come and drag you away. You don't know about Grendel? Then I suppose you don't know about Beowulf either. Listen closely and I will tell you the story of the greatest Geat warrior and how he fought the vile monster, Grendel. ([4])

And ends:

過了幾天之後, 貝奧伍爾夫和他的隨從準備揚帆返家, 滿載著禮物和格茲人與丹麥人之間的友誼後, 他們便開始回家的航程。

而貝奧伍爾夫這位最威猛和最英勇的格茲人後來又怎樣呢? 他遇到很多歷險, 並與很多惡魔搏鬥。

但那是另一個故事, 將來再說給你們聽。

After a few days Beowulf and his men prepared to set sail for their homeland. Laden with gifts and a friendship between the Geats and the Danes they sailed away for their homes.

And what became of Beowulf, the greatest and noblest of Geats? He had many more adventures and fought many a monster.

But that is another story, to be told at another time. ([32])

BAM (2004 original edition and 2019 reprint, the latter identifying the language as Cantonese).