Bookworms recommend: Piggy and the Big Bad Wolf, etc.

Illus­tra­tion 1 of “Alas, Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood!”

Illus­tra­tion 2 of “Oh, Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood!”

Illus­tra­tion 3 of “Alas, Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood!”
 
 

Pic­ture Book

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The Lit­tle Pig and the Big Bad Wolf series (6 vol­umes)
This is a hilar­i­ous series of books. The sil­ly piglet is called Ple­dun, and the big bad wolf is called Mr. Wolf. The piglet is fool­ish, the wolf is cun­ning, but it’s always the wolf who gets into trou­ble. The sto­ries don’t seem to have a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose, just a series of cre­ative jokes and farces. The cre­ator, Mac­Naughton, is a very impor­tant con­tem­po­rary British illus­tra­tor. As a child, he was a huge Dis­ney fan, espe­cial­ly “Tom and Jer­ry.” Cre­at­ing these books was a per­fect way to sat­is­fy his child­hood addic­tion! How­ev­er, for those with a keen inter­est in research, “Ah, Lit­tle Red Rid­ing Hood” is also a per­fect exam­ple of “post­mod­ernism.” British schol­ar David Lewis even wrote a more than ten-page paper on it. Per­haps it’s not as sim­ple as it seems.

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Beibei Bear Series (Sec­ond Series, 20 Vol­umes)
Young read­ers who love Bei Bei Bear will be delight­ed. The next 20 vol­umes of the Chi­nese edi­tion have just been released, bring­ing the Bei Bei Bear fam­i­ly in Chi­na to a remark­able 50. This series has been a huge hit abroad. While it’s a rather didac­tic pic­ture book, the sto­ries are still engag­ing and chil­dren love them. The Bei Bei Bear series is a per­fect com­pan­ion for both adults and chil­dren. While osten­si­bly meant to edu­cate chil­dren, it’s often the adults who ben­e­fit most from the edu­ca­tion. This is the most fas­ci­nat­ing aspect of Bei Bei Bear.

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Guli and Gula (Chil­dren’s Friends 2)
Half a cen­tu­ry ago, Mat­sui Nao, the father of Japan­ese pic­ture books, found­ed the “Chil­dren’s Friend” mag­a­zine, a month­ly pub­li­ca­tion of paper­back pic­ture books. This mag­a­zine served as a plat­form for the birth of many world-class works while also ben­e­fit­ing the gen­er­al pub­lic. One of its most clas­sic works is “Guli and Guru,” cre­at­ed by a pair of sis­ters: Rieko Nak­a­gawa, author of “Fufue­nen,” and Yuriko Ōmu­ra, a high school stu­dent at the time. Both went on to become top cre­ators.

   
The third book in the “Friends of Chil­dren” series intro­duced and pub­lished by the “Lov­ing Tree” pic­ture book library has been released.“Mag­i­cal Water­col­or” by Lin Mingzi, which is also very good!

〖Text book〗

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Zhang Qiusheng’s humor­ous and inter­est­ing fairy tale series (5 vol­umes)
Among vet­er­an fairy tale writ­ers, Zhang Qiusheng is undoubt­ed­ly the one who has devot­ed con­sid­er­able effort to the style of Hans Chris­t­ian Ander­sen, giv­ing his tales a clas­sic qual­i­ty. He is also par­tic­u­lar­ly adept at craft­ing short, poignant, and pro­found “palm-sized fairy tales,” a for­mat he has seem­ing­ly become his sig­na­ture. He has pub­lished numer­ous col­lec­tions of fairy tales, and this is a new­ly pub­lished small col­lec­tion, offer­ing excel­lent val­ue for mon­ey. :)

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Chi­nese Fables (Youth Edi­tion)
In recent years, Jiang­su Chil­dren’s Pub­lish­ing House has com­piled and pub­lished a num­ber of youth edi­tions of ancient human­i­ties books, the over­all qual­i­ty of which is quite good. Recent­ly, they have been reprint­ed in their entire­ty with a new look. “Chi­nese Fables (Juve­nile Edi­tion)” is one of the new­er ones. The author, Qiao Zhongyan, is a prose writer. His 2007 work “Chi­nese Mythol­o­gy” won the Zhao Shuli Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture Award. This book can be con­sid­ered a sis­ter vol­ume to it.

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Inspi­ra­tional Selec­tion of New­bery Medal Juve­nile Fic­tion (4 vol­umes)
“Inspi­ra­tion Selec­tion” has become a new brand in chil­dren’s books, thanks to its series of import­ed and pub­lished clas­sic pic­ture books. The four books fea­tured here are excel­lent young adult nov­els, win­ners of both the New­bery Gold and Sil­ver Medals. Among them, the 2000 Gold Medal win­ner, “My Name is Bud, Not Bud­dy,” was pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished by Yilin Pub­lish­ing (“Bud, Not Bud­dy”). The oth­er three books were import­ed and pub­lished for the first time in recent years.

〖Spe­cial Rec­om­men­da­tion〗

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[Xiong Liang’s Works] Famous Writ­ers’ Pic­ture Book Series (4 vol­umes)
“The Meta­mor­pho­sis,” “Don Quixote,” “The Hunger Artist,” and “A Seat at the Top”—these four lit­er­ary mas­ter­pieces, illus­trat­ed in their dis­tinc­tive style (much thick­er than typ­i­cal pic­ture books), are undoubt­ed­ly a delight. The edi­tors of this set have tru­ly had a blast, as this is the first time they’ve been offi­cial­ly pub­lished in their entire­ty! Hon­est­ly, though, this isn’t a set of books that caters to chil­dren. While chil­dren can enjoy it, it’s prob­a­bly more suit­ed to adult enthu­si­asts. Giv­en the lim­it­ed chance of reprints, if you’re inter­est­ed in col­lect­ing these books, it’s best to act soon. :)

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Biog­ra­phy of Bod­in, the “Father of Bebe Bear”
Strict­ly speak­ing, the title is a bit of a mis­nomer, as the cre­ators of “Baby Bear” are Mr. and Mrs. Bod­in, and this book is a joint auto­bi­og­ra­phy writ­ten by them: it begins with inter­weav­ing sto­ries of their respec­tive births, child­hoods, ado­les­cence, and young adult­hood, and then recounts their meet­ing, col­lab­o­ra­tion, love, mar­riage, and ulti­mate­ly, the cre­ation of the “Baby Bear” mir­a­cle. Togeth­er, they cre­at­ed over 200 “Baby Bear” books, and now, as grand­par­ents, they include many sto­ries about their beloved grand­par­ents with­in the “Baby Bear” sto­ries. This book is sure to be a fas­ci­nat­ing read for “Baby Bear” fans, as well as read­ers eager to learn more about the back­ground behind chil­dren’s and pic­ture book cre­ation.

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Sto­ries of the East­ern Zhou Dynasty (Vol­umes 1 and 2) (Lin Han­da’s Pop­u­lar His­to­ry Clas­sics)
I have rec­om­mend­ed “Lin Han­da’s Col­lec­tion of Chi­nese His­tor­i­cal Sto­ries” many times. What is the dif­fer­ence between this “Lin Han­da’s Pop­u­lar His­to­ry Clas­sics” and it?I have made a com­par­i­son, just for ref­er­enceSim­ply put, the for­mer is a stream­lined chil­dren’s edi­tion, while the lat­ter is a pop­u­lar ver­sion suit­able for both teenagers and adult read­ers. Mr. Lin Han­da wrote about the War­ring States Peri­od from the East­ern Zhou Dynasty to the Han Dynasty and the Three King­doms Peri­od, but unfor­tu­nate­ly passed away pre­ma­ture­ly. Of these works, I find the War­ring States Peri­od the most excit­ing, though this is pure­ly a per­son­al pref­er­ence.

Recent event noti­fi­ca­tions

   
“Here Comes! New Folk—”: 2008 Wu Se Tu Chi­na Orig­i­nal Pic­ture Book Annu­al Forum
   
Recent lec­ture series:
 
Loca­tion: Class­room 204, Build­ing 1, Teach­ing Area, Bei­hang Uni­ver­si­ty (Mul­ti­me­dia Class­room, 220 seats)

   
Keynote Speech 1: Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 26, 7:30 p.m.
   
Speak­er: Ajia (founder of the Red Mud Read­ing Club and pro­mot­er of chil­dren’s read­ing books)
   
Theme: Pic­ture Book of Folk Tales

   
Keynote Speech 2: Fri­day, Octo­ber 10, 7:30 PM
   
Speak­er: Car­rot Inspec­tor (founder of the Red Mud Read­ing Club and pro­mot­er of chil­dren’s read­ing books)
   
Top­ic: “What are the ways to play with pic­ture books?”

   
Keynote Speech 3: Fri­day, Octo­ber 17, 7:30 PM
   
Speak­er: Yang Zhong (Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, senior teacher of pic­ture book cre­ation)
   
Top­ic: Folk Tales: A Com­par­i­son of Japan­ese Pic­ture Book Cre­ation and Chi­nese Pic­ture Books

   
Oth­er speak­ers who have been invit­ed include Xiong Lei (famous pic­ture book cre­ator, plan­ner and pro­mot­er), Wang Lin (senior pic­ture book researcher and mem­ber of the pri­ma­ry school Chi­nese text­book writ­ing team), Xiong Liang (famous pic­ture book writer and artist), Yan Xinyuan (pro­fes­sor at the School of New Media Art of Bei­hang Uni­ver­si­ty and expert in folk art research), Peng Yi (famous pic­ture book researcher and senior pic­ture book pro­mot­er), etc. The lec­ture time is to be deter­mined, usu­al­ly every Fri­day evening, with a fre­quen­cy of about one lec­ture per week.