Ragazzimeans “children/kids”. The BRAW are BCBF awards aimed at highlighting the most beautiful and innovative illustrated books at an international level. They are one of the most prestigious recognitions for children’s publishing. Every year, a wide selection of the best books (over 100 tit...
Teaching a non-native 5 year old how to read Chinese is a new challenge for me. There is no external input from her school or family members, so it is all down to me. For reading specifically, I started with 四五快读 [Quick, Read!], which is a series of 8 textbooks which introdu...
This book is a fantasy novel about a 43 year old man who dies in the first chapter, only to wake up back in 1963 inside his 18-year old body. With his memories preserved, he proceeds to relive his life a second time (until the process repeats). With each replay, he makes different...
Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May, 1975) Posted on29 Days AgobyAlan Stewart Cover layout by Gil Kane, featuring only the new X-Men team lineup. The completed original art for the cover, with the new team pencilled by Kane and the old team pencilled by Dave Cockrum; all inks by Cockrum....
Written by an 18-year-old Françoise Sagan, this short novel became an overnight bestseller, after it was published in 1954. A young Cécile joins her father for a summer holiday in a beautiful countryside near Paris. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, wh...
George Washington Vanderbilt was a 25 year old bachelor in 1889 when he commissioned a French Renaissance chateau for friends and family to escape New York winters.Can you imagine how those 16th-century castles in the Loire Valley must have wished that they, too, had 125,000 acres to frolic...
"Around the year 1000, people around the globe started to realize for the first time that they could leave home, travel to other places, find out about their neighbors and adopt new approaches. A wave of Islam came to Northwest China as part of that movement. People embarked on ocean trav...
As a 30-year-old, Little House in the Big Woods does read like an instruction manual for the pioneer lifestyle and like an instruction manual to raise good little boys and girls. A bit didactic. At this point in my life, I prefer my stories to be subtler. (Of course, I couldn’t...
”Twelve-Year-Old Friendship Earthquake” Erin·KELLY (Philippines), tr. FENG Yi // 《十二岁的友谊地震》【菲】艾琳·凯莉 (著) 冯怡 (译)— A boy and girl meet online and find genuine friendship, which enables them to deal with the different challenges they each face as they grow up. [...
Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone becomes absorbed in the mystery of a dog’s demise, meticulously investigating through diagrams, timetables, maps and maths problems. Haddon’s fascinating portrayal of an unconventional mind was a crossover hit with both adults and children and was ad...