As much as I would like to be a bibliophile, I transitioned into one of the required readers when I entered elementary school in China. Even when I had the opportunity to come to U.S., due to the language barrier at first, I couldn’t fully comprehend the text to truly start to enjoy a book. However, there are several children’s books even until now, I quite believed, have enlightened me.
Fortunately, throughout the years I was growing up, my parents weren’t overly stressing on how and what I should learn and read. Instead, they had introduced and encouraged books that my classmates’ parents would have called otherwise: “non-nutritious”.
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales.(Ge Lin Tong Hua) Indeed, it is every girl’s little treasure, to be able to open up the book and share the stories such as the classics: Ugly Duckling, Red Shoes, and The Mermaid. However, the series I’ve read weren’t the ones that are full of colors and pictures. They’re black and white full text of Chinese characters, therefore expanded my imagination and embarked my interested to draw.
Ten Thousand Whys’ (Shi Wan Ge Wei Shen Mei) Ever since this children’s encyclopedia was introduced, the collection had benefited kids like me from gaining the basic understandings of nature, physics, biology, chemistry etc. My Chinese vocabulary was increased significantly because of the unfamiliar science terms. I was very much drawn to the questions like “Why do you blush when you are shy?”
Mind Twisters (Nao Jin Ji Juan Wan) It is what the title of the series informed, it twists your common knowledge of people and things. It pulls you away from your normal ways of thinking, “what question you can’t never say ‘ Yes’ to?” –Are you asleep? ” It had given my dull student life at the time a fresh breath of air, It brought laughter to our classroom because we were all eager to share our version of the answers.
As of now I’m reading a book called A Quiet Belief In Angels by R.J. Ellory, slowly making my way from in-between casual and required reader, to hopefully someday, a bibliophile .
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