Author: Pearl Race.
Illustrated by Joanfsky.
Translator: Dai Yibei.
Publisher: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, Flowers of the Waves.
The series of great writers written by the great writer of the waves for children, we have been watching for a long time, this series has Maugham, Chekhov, Pushkin, Faulkner and other people's intentions, this time I read the pearl that has a great relationship with China.
A Nobel Prize winner for both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, Pearl grew up in China, she loved China, loved children, and in her writing, childhood was full of love.
What Happened in the Spring is divided into two parts, one for the little ones and one for the "big kids".
Stories for the little ones:
The four seasons of the five children and their parents are always endlessly fun, they go to the mountains, go to the lake, and let the wind guide everyone; Those love to ask"What exactly is lightning"I want to pick up the light", it seems to be a little baby around us!
When a child who is afraid of the dark does not want to turn off the light to sleep, his father will say, I was also a little boy, and I am also afraid of the dark, but I know what it is?
When the sun leaves, it will leave the darkness behind for us to rest"That's it.
They run in the meadows, they go hunting for wild strawberries, they meet squirrels chasing food and cute rabbits in winter, and they go to observe and think with their parents, which is what childhood should be. It is also a long-lost memory of our "big children".
The story for the "big kids" has Chinese elements, and the grandmother who has been to China is like a storyteller, she tells a story she heard when she was a child about why dogs and cats are not friends, and the grandmother in the story seems to have returned to her childhood.
And in the mother's story, the mother who was still a little foreign girl met two Chinese brothers and sisters herding buffalo in the countryside, the slow water buffalo was called the big radish, one day they found a magic stone, but the little boy did not dare to chant the spell, and the miracle finally appeared.
And the "battle between the tiger and the leopard" in the eyes of the little boy in the Indian circus is simply another "fantasy drift"...
American historian James Thomas Jr. described Pearl Sai as "the most influential person to write Chinese stories since Marco Polo in the 13th century." I think there is also a story about children, Pearl Race melts her tenderness and love into words, because of her spirituality and love, every reader feels like they are back to their childhood.
This is the first level of reading in the Great Writers series, where children feel the joy of childishness, accumulate words and phrases about nature, and fall in love with the joy of reading.
This book "What Happened in the Spring" Pearl Race Story Collection is also the best spring gift for children, and at the moment of reading together, we, the "big children", seem to have found the childhood in our memory, 18 childhood stories full of good times, which are the happiness of children and ours....
Spring is here, is there anything you want to do? Tell your friends about the "spring happenings."
Pearl Race Wave Blossoms