Ajia, Carrot Detective, one of the recommended books for summer vacation 2009

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The scorch­ing sum­mer heat has arrived ear­ly. Some chil­dren have already fin­ished their exams, while oth­ers are still work­ing on their final sprint for the semes­ter. All in all, a hap­py sum­mer vaca­tion is just around the cor­ner!

There’s a quip pop­u­lar in Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion cir­cles: “Every sum­mer, stu­dents become dumb­er!” It’s not quite accu­rate, but it’s prob­a­bly the mean­ing. The quip was mock­ing (and also express­ing con­cern about) the phe­nom­e­non where stu­dents, free to play dur­ing the long sum­mer break and away from their books, gen­er­al­ly feel “less intel­li­gent” when they return to school. Actu­al­ly, there’s no need to wor­ry. Sum­mer vaca­tion is a prime time for “read­ing, read­ing peo­ple, and read­ing the world.” With prop­er plan­ning, you can enjoy trav­el, play, exer­cise, and read­ing.

Hong­ni­ba has spe­cial­ly pre­pared var­i­ous rec­om­men­da­tions for every­one (main­ly chil­dren who have sum­mer vaca­tion), such as:
Fat Book; Fun­ny book; Brain-stim­u­lat­ing books; Deli­cious books;
Dinosaurs and Drag­ons; Space Books; Chi­nese cul­ture; Sci­ence Pop­u­lar­iza­tion Press Album…

Below we will con­tin­ue to intro­duce some of them and give some exam­ples. In addi­tion, we have also pre­pared some inter­est­ing read­ing clubs for every­one dur­ing the sum­mer vaca­tion.Par­ent-child sto­ry com­pe­ti­tion(There are prizes),Chil­dren’s book clas­sics read­ing group for adult read­ers, and a VIP Green Read­ing Camp. Please pay atten­tion to the lat­est updates from Mud Rumors.

〖Fat Book〗

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As the name sug­gests, “fat books” are books that appear to be quite large, with thick pages and a large word count. If it weren’t for sum­mer vaca­tion, you would­n’t be able to fin­ish them in one sit­ting. Accord­ing to the new ele­men­tary school cur­ricu­lum, the rec­om­mend­ed amount of extracur­ric­u­lar read­ing for ele­men­tary school stu­dents is over 1.45 mil­lion words. Wow, that’s a lot! But if you knew how “fat” these books are, you’d think 1.45 mil­lion words would be a piece of cake.
Cool Ant Ant 3 vol­umes: The third vol­ume of this series of fairy tales about ants has just been pub­lished recent­ly. Judg­ing from the dif­fi­cul­ty and fun, it can be han­dled by sec­ond-grade read­ers with slight­ly stronger read­ing abil­i­ty. It has a total of 530,000 words!

Jour­ney to the West (4 vol­umes)This set of the orig­i­nal Jour­ney to the West is a rich­ly illus­trat­ed ver­sion spe­cial­ly pre­pared for chil­dren, with the won­der­ful brush­work of vet­er­an illus­tra­tor Mr. Yang Yongqing. The book has 953,000 words.

The Com­plete Sher­lock Holmes Sto­ries (4 Vol­umes): It is real­ly a com­plete col­lec­tion, includ­ing 4 novel­las and 56 short sto­ries. It is real­ly excit­ing for detec­tive fans. The total num­ber of words is about 560,000.

Har­ry Pot­ter series (7 vol­umes)The Har­ry Pot­ter movie is com­ing out this sum­mer, and my kids have been obsessed with nov­els late­ly. I added up the word count for all sev­en vol­umes, and wow—about 2.94 mil­lion words—it’s a seri­ous­ly huge book! After fin­ish­ing the Har­ry Pot­ter series, it’s exact­ly dou­ble the total word count required for extracur­ric­u­lar read­ing in ele­men­tary school (and that’s a bit of a twist), haha!

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〖Fun­ny book〗

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Dur­ing the sum­mer vaca­tion, read­ing some fun­ny books can not only make you hap­py, but also help you avoid the heat and cool down…
A col­lec­tion of hilar­i­ous sto­ries about the Stinky Cheese Boy: Although this col­lec­tion is just a pic­ture book, it sub­verts many famous fairy tales and can be called a hilar­i­ous post­mod­ern work!

Avan­ti Sto­ry COMIC Edi­tion Series 6 Vol­umes: This is a com­ic ver­sion of the Afan­ti sto­ry orig­i­nal­ly cre­at­ed by Chi­nese peo­ple. The hilar­i­ous and wise sto­ry is com­bined with exag­ger­at­ed com­ic tech­niques, which is enjoy­able and authen­tic.

Bruno and Boots (7 vol­umes)This series is also includ­ed in the “Chub­by Books” col­lec­tion. Don’t be fooled by its thin­ness, but all sev­en vol­umes togeth­er con­tain approx­i­mate­ly 850,000 words. It’s a sur­pris­ing­ly easy read, and if you get into it, you’ll def­i­nite­ly burst into laugh­ter. The first time I read it, I laughed until 3 a.m.…

The Adven­tures of Tom Sawyer: A very clas­sic com­ing-of-age sto­ry. Mark Twain may not have writ­ten it for chil­dren, but he acci­den­tal­ly opened up a prece­dent for the “clas­sic trou­ble­mak­er”. If we only talk about the cre­ativ­i­ty of mis­chief, few lat­er trou­ble­mak­ers and naughty boys can match Tom Sawyer.

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〖Brain-stim­u­lat­ing books〗

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Inter­est­ing Math­e­mat­i­cal Adven­ture Series 6 Vol­umesThe book incor­po­rates math prob­lems into real-life adven­tures, allow­ing you to use math in every sit­u­a­tion. The math prob­lems range from sim­ple to com­plex, and are gen­er­al­ly suit­able for read­ers in fourth grade and below.

“Hor­ri­ble Sci­ence” Clas­sic Math­e­mat­ics Series 6 Vol­umesThe math series in “Hor­ri­ble Sci­ence” is a delight­ful read. It offers a brief his­to­ry of math­e­mat­ics, along with a vari­ety of anec­dotes and fas­ci­nat­ing ques­tions. It’s hard to cat­e­go­rize. While demand­ing, it’s also gen­uine­ly enter­tain­ing. It’s gen­er­al­ly suit­able for read­ers in third or fourth grade and up, but adults can also find it quite enjoy­able.

Trea­sure HunterThis sus­pense­ful nov­el, orig­i­nal­ly titled “The Hole,” isn’t a long book, but its struc­ture is com­plex, full of mys­tery and sus­pense. Final­ly, upon escap­ing this maze, read­ers can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. It’s tru­ly cap­ti­vat­ing!
   
Detec­tive Car­le: A famous work by Lind­gren, a sto­ry about a young detec­tive solv­ing a crime, which can also be seen as a com­ing-of-age sto­ry.

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〖Deli­cious books〗

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The Fox That Eats BooksMr. Fox’s way of acquir­ing knowl­edge was to eat books, with a lit­tle pep­per and salt added, of course. If he did­n’t have enough books at home, he’d go to the book­store, and if the book­store was­n’t enough, he’d go to the library. Of course, he end­ed up in jail. Did Mr. Fox give up? No! No! No! He became a writer…

The Laugh­ing Old Lady Who Lost the Rice Ball: Laugh­ing Pozi can make deli­cious rice balls and can’t help laugh­ing all day, but the evil ghosts cap­ture her to cook for them. Laugh­ing Pozi escapes from the dev­il’s cave with great dif­fi­cul­ty and brings back a super use­ful mag­ic spoon!

Ice Bowl Shop: Mr. Ge Bing (author of “Blue Mouse and Big Face Cat”) cre­at­ed humor­ous chival­rous nov­els for young peo­ple, among which “Eat Mas­ter” is his rep­re­sen­ta­tive work. The sto­ry cre­ates an absurd image of a knight who “shares half of the food when he meets” what­ev­er he eats.

A big cake falls from the skyA huge cake falls from the sky! All the chil­dren in the city come to this grand ban­quet. Guess what the police are doing at this time? — A clas­sic mas­ter­piece by fairy tale mas­ter Luo Dali.

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〖Chi­nese cul­ture〗

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Chi­nese Idiom Sto­ries (60 pic­ture books): A set of award-win­ning com­ic book clas­sics for com­ic book fans to col­lect, and also a very use­ful small idiom dic­tio­nary!

Illus­trat­ed Chi­nese Clas­sics (12 vol­umes) (Pho­net­ic Anno­ta­tion Edi­tion)This series has been cat­e­go­rized as a “chub­by book,” but each indi­vid­ual book isn’t over­ly chubby—it’s “just right,” not too chub­by or too thin. But with all 12 books togeth­er, it feels a bit chub­by, does­n’t it? This series is quite enjoy­able to read, thanks to the won­der­ful illus­tra­tions and light­heart­ed writ­ing. It’s per­fect for ele­men­tary stu­dents to enjoy a relax­ing intro­duc­tion to clas­sics.

The Muse­um of Great Chi­nese Clas­sic Sto­ries (6 vol­umes) (Chi­nese and Eng­lish): A square set of books, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between artists and folk­lorists, using pic­tures to tell the sto­ries of the var­i­ous eth­nic groups in Greater Chi­na.

4 vol­umes of clas­sic poet­ry and sto­ry series: Tang poet­ry, Song lyrics, Yuan opera, and Qing poet­ry are all trea­sures of Chi­nese cul­ture. How­ev­er, sim­ply mem­o­riz­ing them is actu­al­ly quite tir­ing for chil­dren. If you can tell them the sto­ries behind these poems, maybe they will like them more and it will also help them under­stand the beau­ty of the poems.

〖Space Books〗

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Galileo Galilei — Inter­stel­lar Mes­sen­ger: 2009 was des­ig­nat­ed the Inter­na­tion­al Year of Astron­o­my because 400 years ago, human­i­ty first observed space through a tele­scope, extend­ing its hori­zons and activ­i­ties to the cos­mos. The sci­en­tist who used the tele­scope was Galileo Galilei.

Beyond Jupiter: Plan­e­tary Astronomer Hei­di Hem­merAstronomers are not exclu­sive­ly male. In today’s world, because astron­o­my relies more on patient obser­va­tion and metic­u­lous cal­cu­la­tions, the pro­por­tion of female astronomers in some coun­tries even exceeds 50%. This biog­ra­phy of a female astronomer rein­forces our belief that beau­ty and wis­dom are not mutu­al­ly exclu­sive!

A Brief His­to­ry of Every­thingThis book also has a col­lec­tor’s edi­tion with col­or illus­tra­tions, priced at just 208 yuan! This paper­back edi­tion is quite afford­able. This pop­u­lar sci­ence read­er’s strength lies pri­mar­i­ly in the author’s per­spec­tive and expo­si­tion; the illus­tra­tions pro­vide lim­it­ed sup­port. It’s prob­a­bly suit­able for upper ele­men­tary school stu­dents and above, but it’s also well-suit­ed for adult sci­ence enthu­si­asts. The paper­back edi­tion has 438 pages and 415,000 words, mak­ing it quite sub­stan­tial.

Asi­mov’s Galac­tic Empire series (vol­ume 3)The orig­i­nal and most com­plete con­cep­tion of the Galac­tic Empire came from Asi­mov’s three major sci­ence fic­tion series: “Foun­da­tion,” “Empire,” and “Robots.” Asi­mov’s pop­u­lar sci­ence and sci­ence fic­tion works are imbued with a strong human­is­tic con­cern, mak­ing him a true thinker.