[Children’s Books] Mud News 2008-09-03

The orig­i­nal pic­ture book “Jingju Cats — Chang­ban­po” won an award!
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In July 2008, “Peking Opera Cats: Chang­ban­po,” a book series from the “Sen­sa­tion of Chi­na” series pub­lished by Com­ic Book Pub­lish­ing House and co-authored by Xiong Liang and Wu Zhai, won the Best Pic­ture Award at the Sec­ond Asian Youth Ani­ma­tion Com­pe­ti­tion and the “Honglicheng” Chi­na (Guiyang) Car­toon Art Fes­ti­val. The “Peking Opera Cats,” metic­u­lous­ly cre­at­ed by illus­tra­tor Xiong Liang, incor­po­rate fas­ci­nat­ing Peking Opera sto­ries into a play­ful fairy tale, invit­ing chil­dren to con­nect with tra­di­tion­al Chi­nese cul­ture through a joy­ful world of imag­i­na­tion.

Xinyi has recent­ly launched sev­er­al new orig­i­nal pic­ture books!
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Tomor­row Pub­lish­ing House pub­lished this year’s “Bao Er,” “A Gar­den of Green Veg­eta­bles Becomes a Spir­it,” “Yima,” and “Reunion,” orig­i­nal pic­ture books metic­u­lous­ly craft­ed over sev­er­al years by the Xinyi Foun­da­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with writ­ers and painters. Their work, along with the “Sen­sa­tion­al Chi­na” series pub­lished by Lian­huan­hua Pub­lish­ing House, rep­re­sents the pin­na­cle of orig­i­nal pic­ture book pub­lish­ing in 2008. Stay tuned!

Read pic­ture books and explore the psy­cho­log­i­cal world of lit­tle men——
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Essen­tial read­ing for fam­i­lies with lit­tle men: “Pee-Pee” and “Real Men,” among four oth­er books. Man­u­la Ort, a ris­ing star in the world of Ger­man pic­ture books and the moth­er of a young boy, uses sub­tle obser­va­tion and per­son­al expe­ri­ence to deeply por­tray the psy­cho­log­i­cal worlds of these young men. Par­ents with mis­chie­vous lit­tle boys are encour­aged to read these books with their chil­dren.

“Con­grat­u­la­tions Uncle“ ‘s “Lit­tle Frog Tak­ing a Nap” is here!
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Tat­suya Miyan­ishi is cur­rent­ly one of Japan’s most active pic­ture book authors. As of his lat­est, “Lit­tle Frog Takes a Nap,” he has pub­lished 11 books in sim­pli­fied Chi­nese. He has vis­it­ed Chi­na three times, and his lec­tures are a delight to both adults and chil­dren, who find his approach­able and engag­ing lan­guage. Renowned pic­ture book researcher Peng Yi even gave him the dis­tinct­ly Chi­nese nick­name “Uncle Con­grat­u­la­tions.”