Chapter 89 "Pick a Star Down" ① Preface

Comrade Chen Bochui has worked hard in the field of Chinese children's literature for more than 50 years. The dozens of essays in this collection are only part of his harvest. As early as 1924, when he was a primary school teacher, he began to write the novel "Model Classmate" based on the life of students.He himself said that he "felt real and interested" when he wrote this book. The novel was published by the Commercial Press in 1927 and renamed "School Life". The author said in his autobiography: "This small achievement marks a new starting point for my life's work. From then until the end of 1956, in my teaching career, I never stopped writing in my spare time, and I grasped it more and more every year. "

The same is true, and since then, he has written many poems, novels, and essays for children for more than half a century.He not only translated many foreign fairy tales, but also began to write fairy tales in the early 1930s. This collection is divided into three parts: infants, children, and teenagers. They are all short essays, the short ones are no more than a few hundred words, and the long ones are only more than 3,000 words. They are all about trivial matters. Because the author loves and understands children, he has not only been a teacher for decades, but also often participates in various extracurricular activities for children, so his works are all inside. Published in November.

The content is rich, the story is interesting, and the text is fresh.For example, "This street has grown up" in the children's story, and "A locomotive dragged forty-eight wagons" in the children's story, etc., are written truthfully, childish and picturesque, but the artistic conception is very profound! This collection is the latest of the author's many collections of children's literature, but it is by no means the last, because we are happy to know that the author is still "persevering and diligently moving forward in this field".January 1, 1982