To the Little Reader(collection)

by Bing Xin

To the Little Reader contains Bing Xins 29 pieces of letters to children. In The Fourth Preface of To the Little Readers, written in 1927, she said ""The object of this book is my beloved kind mother. When I draw my pen, her frowns or smiles emerged in front of me..."" Because of respect and love for mother, it makes her strokes flows the warm spring water, shining spring day. ""ittle friends, Bing Xin promises you report your childish joy and naive tears again in this Spring. Although, she is afraid that joy doesnt come and tears dont fall when holding the full blossom and thorns of life gradually...Little friend, remember that Spring comes."" A set of To the Little Reader not only narrates what she saw and heard when she was on the trip of foreign countries, but also expresses her deep and sincere nostalgia, tempting affection and clear memory for childhood as well as the fantasy and love about nature, the sea and Spring. These essays also fully embody her usual love and sense of responsibility for the future and new growing generation. These epistolary proses, talking effusively, are kind and placid. Viewing great philosophy through small things often, childrens happiness life in new period are showed from different angles through some daily things. Meanwhile, she practiced her repeated advice to children literature writers with beautiful words.

267 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2013