Bookworms recommend books: A garden of green vegetables turned into spirits, etc.

Illus­tra­tion 1 of A Gar­den of Green Veg­eta­bles Becomes a Spir­it
 

Illus­tra­tion 2 of A Gar­den of Green Veg­eta­bles Becomes a Spir­it
 

Illus­tra­tion 3 of A Gar­den of Veg­eta­bles Becomes a Spir­it
 
 

Pic­ture Book

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A Gar­den of Green Veg­eta­bles Became Spir­its (Xinyi Select­ed Pic­ture Book Series)
Fol­low­ing “Morn­ing Mar­ket in Lotus Town,” artist Zhou Xiang presents his sec­ond pic­ture book mas­ter­piece. Based on a wide­ly sung chil­dren’s rhyme in north­ern Chi­na, the illus­tra­tions weave a series of cap­ti­vat­ing sto­ries, both dynam­ic and sta­t­ic. The scene where a gar­den of veg­eta­bles (includ­ing tofu) splits into two fierce fac­tions and engages in a large-scale bat­tle is par­tic­u­lar­ly cap­ti­vat­ing, both humor­ous and exag­ger­at­ed. If paired with an authen­tic chil­dren’s rhyme and authen­tic veg­etable and tofu props, chil­dren will nev­er tire of read­ing and play­ing with it.

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In the For­est (Pop­u­lar Pic­ture Book Series)
On numer­ous occa­sions, Mr. Nao­ki Mat­sui has con­fessed that this is his favorite pic­ture book. But hon­est­ly, even after read­ing it many times, I still can’t under­stand why he loves it so deeply. I think it’s prob­a­bly fate. While the sto­ry may super­fi­cial­ly be play­ful and imag­i­na­tive, it also holds a pro­found and tran­quil reflec­tion on life, a depth that per­haps requires excep­tion­al life expe­ri­ences to tru­ly grasp.

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Tim and Saran Series, Vol­ume 1, 5 Books (The Giv­ing Tree Pic­ture Book)
“Tim & Saran” has been reprint­ed! The first Chi­nese edi­tion, pub­lished even before “The Giv­ing Tree,” includ­ed sev­en hard­cov­er vol­umes. In a time when pic­ture books were near­ly nonex­is­tent, these were tru­ly heart­warm­ing trea­sures. The Giv­ing Tree Pic­ture Book Library is releas­ing two series of 10 vol­umes in paper­back for­mat, enlarg­ing the for­mat to reflect the orig­i­nal edition—a tru­ly char­i­ta­ble ges­ture.

〖Lit­er­ary books〗

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Yiyi and Yaya Series 5 Vol­umes (Pho­net­ic Ver­sion)
Dutch author Anne Schmidt is a tru­ly fas­ci­nat­ing vet­er­an. Her accep­tance speech for the Hans Chris­t­ian Ander­sen Award is per­haps the most cap­ti­vat­ing. Her sto­ries of Yi Yi and Ya Ya are equal­ly amus­ing and heart­warm­ing, with delight­ful illus­tra­tions. How­ev­er, this Chi­nese edi­tion suf­fers from a some­what awk­ward for­mat: The con­tent is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­ed for chil­dren aged 3–6, while the for­mat is ide­al for inde­pen­dent read­ing by chil­dren aged 5–8.

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Dreamy Hap­py Read­ing Series 8 books
This series of short chap­ter sto­ry­books, import­ed from Ger­many, is light and com­pact. Each vol­ume con­tains a com­plete sto­ry (longer or short­er), divid­ed into chap­ters, with a mix of text and illus­tra­tions, all in col­or. The sto­ries range from anec­dotes from teenage chil­dren to whim­si­cal mod­ern fairy tales. The illus­tra­tions are by a group of lead­ing con­tem­po­rary Ger­man artists, includ­ing Daniela Kulot, the artist behind the “Croc­o­dile Loves Giraffe” series. This light­heart­ed and play­ful series is par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­able for inde­pen­dent read­ing by young read­ers in third grade and above.

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Clas­sic Mas­ter­pieces Pic­ture Book Series (10 Vol­umes) (DK Series)
DK Pub­lish­ing, a British com­pa­ny, is renowned for its exquis­ite­ly craft­ed pop­u­lar sci­ence books on nature and social sci­ences. The recent­ly released “Clas­sic Mas­ter­pieces Pic­ture Book Series” by Elec­tric Pow­er Press is a com­pan­ion series to ten clas­sics. These beau­ti­ful­ly illus­trat­ed books show­case the orig­i­nal works’ con­text, geog­ra­phy, and cul­tur­al land­scapes, as well as icon­ic sto­ry scenes. The text with­in the books serves as a chap­ter-by-chap­ter sum­ma­ry of the orig­i­nal works, pro­vid­ing read­ers with a wealth of engag­ing illus­tra­tions and infor­ma­tion, regard­less of their famil­iar­i­ty with the orig­i­nal works.

〖Text book〗

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Nim’s Mouse (Glob­al Chil­dren’s Lit­er­a­ture Col­lec­tion Series)
At first glance, you might think it’s just a heart­warm­ing fairy tale. But as you read on, the sus­pense builds and the ten­sion inten­si­fies. And when you learn the ori­gins of “Nîmes’s Mouse,” you might be shocked—it’s a grand sto­ry that attempts to rewrite the his­to­ry of mice and humans! This long fairy tale is a true exam­ple of sto­ry­telling tech­nique, of cap­ti­vat­ing and grip­ping sto­ry­telling. The trans­la­tion is also rig­or­ous and bril­liant. It’s suit­able for read­ers of all ages.

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Ani­mal Notes (3 vol­umes) (Seton Ani­mal Series)
Seton is a clas­sic Cana­di­an nat­u­ral­ist and ani­mal nov­el­ist, whose achieve­ments in telling wildlife sto­ries remain unmatched. This is not only because his sto­ries are based on true obser­va­tions (and there­fore often trag­ic), but also because he was a remark­able ani­mal artist, able to depict real wildlife with both sci­en­tif­ic and vivid­ness. Two of these three vol­umes con­tain ani­mal sto­ries that have been anthol­o­gized in oth­er ani­mal sto­ry col­lec­tions, but the third vol­ume, “Beast Tracks,” is a very rare edi­tion, fea­tur­ing Seton’s col­lec­tion of draw­ings of beast tracks (which he per­son­al­ly drew) and the accom­pa­ny­ing sto­ries, mak­ing it a valu­able col­lec­tor’s item.

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Cheng Weizhizhen’s Fic­tion and Prose Series (5 vol­umes)
I remem­ber watch­ing the movie “The Years of Car­damom” in mid­dle school and lov­ing it. I lat­er learned that the film was adapt­ed from Cheng Wei’s nov­el “Towards Eigh­teen.” Per­haps to jog every­one’s mem­o­ry, it’s been renamed “The Years of Car­damom” in this new series. Anoth­er nov­el in the series, “The Girl’s Red Hair­pin,” is one of the most icon­ic com­ing-of-age nov­els of the 1980s and remains deeply mov­ing today. “Whis­pers in the Wind” is a col­lec­tion of essays reflect­ing the author’s years abroad. Over­all, this is a beau­ti­ful set of books, suit­able for stu­dents from upper ele­men­tary school through high school, as well as for adult read­ers who admire this author.

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 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.

    Octo­ber 10–13: Tomor­row Pub­lish­ing House’s “Peng Yi Liaon­ing and Shan­dong Pic­ture Book Lec­ture”
   
Book lovers in Liaon­ing and Shan­dong provinces, please take note: Mr. Peng Yi, the beloved pic­ture book pro­mo­tion ambas­sador, will be giv­ing sev­en pic­ture book lec­tures on tour in Anshan, Shenyang, Dalian, and Jinan from Octo­ber 10th to 13th. This tour is invit­ed and sup­port­ed by Tomor­row Pub­lish­ing House. All lec­tures are free and open to the pub­lic. For detailed infor­ma­tion on the time, loca­tion, con­tact per­son, and phone num­ber for each event, please vis­it Mud Rumors.