Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Small Pages and Small Letters

The little book page mentioned earlier is a nice little boy who lives on Bingtang Street in Sun City.In another house on the same street, there was a little girl named Little Alphabet.Both the small pages and the small letters are known for their love of reading.They are so addicted to reading that sometimes they don't even go to theatre, go to the movies, listen to the radio or watch TV, just know how to sit down and read some interesting book.They read all the books at home first, then went to friends' houses and bookstores to find books, and finally went to the library to borrow, because interesting books can be borrowed in the library at any time.

Long ago, little pages and little letters did not know each other.Later, both of them borrowed books in the library, and they often borrowed books there, so they could see each other often.When I came home from the library, I talked about the books I read with relish.They quickly became good friends.Little Alphabet, who was very ingenious, came up with this method: She said that neither she nor Page would save time, because they both went to the library at the same time, and the result was that they had less time left for reading; If one person goes to the library to pick up the books of two people, it saves a lot of time, and, in order not to lose anyone, one can go to the library in turn.That's what they did: one went to the library while the other sat down to read.

As the days went by, the little pages and the little letters saw each other often, and after a while they became in the habit of talking together every day.Once, Little Letter told Little Page that she is very happy now because she has a friend with whom she can talk about books.The little page said that he was also very happy, but he was always troubled by one thing. Not all little people like to read, and many people don't even read. They just look at the pictures in the book, or worse: kicking in the street Football, or somersaults. "I feel sorry for these little people," said Little Page. "They themselves don't know how much fun they have lost. If they can fall in love with reading, they will know. What a fun thing it is."

Little Alphabet thought for a while, then said, "Hey Little Page, what do you think if we start a reading theater?" "What is reading theater?" Little Shuye didn't understand. "Well, it's a theater in which you read! Do you understand? There are no actors, no sets, and no stage. Just the audience, sitting and listening to interesting books." "Where on earth have you seen such a theater?" "I haven't seen it anywhere. I thought it up. Let's pick out some of the most attractive novellas, fairy tales, or short stories, and we'll take turns reading them."

Little Pages love little letter suggestions so much they jump into action right away.At first they picked out some short stories to read aloud, and tried to make the first story touching, the second melancholy, the third cheerful, the fourth terrible, the fifth another and so on. Category.That is to say, I hope to meet the tastes of various people. They found a very suitable place for their theater.The place is next to the house where Xiao Shuying lives. The yard is not like a yard, and the garden is not like a garden, but rather like a small garden in the middle of the street.Mignonette was planted around this small garden, and there was a table in the middle for those who liked to play chess and checkers, surrounded by some benches for sitting and breathing in the fresh air.The small garden is located between the two houses, and everyone who passes the street can see the table, mignonette and benches.

"Let's open a reading theater right here," said Little Page to Little Letter. They dragged the table to the side of the street, placed a bench in front of the table for the audience, and brought two chairs out of the house for themselves.Then Little Page ran to fetch a storybook, and Little Letter went to fetch a small brass bell. In the evening, when the bells rang in all the theaters of the City of Sun to call the audience to the play, the little letters began to ring, and the little pages yelled: "Come here! There's a new theater here! It's very interesting! Take your seats!"

Passers-by on the street heard their cries, and some sat down on benches in front of the tables, waiting for the start. Little Page saw that all the benches were filled, and said, "Now Little Letters will play for you. She will read a story." Little Alphabet began to read the first story, she read very well, she had expressions, and everyone listened attentively, but a little person sitting in the front row wrinkled her nose in contempt, stretched her waist in disappointment and said : "Well, it's just reading here! What kind of theater is this?" "It's just nonsense, it's not interesting at all!" Another little man answered.

The two of them got up from the stool and walked away.Some little people also left with them.Soon bells were heard in the theater next door.Many little people jumped up and ran there. As a result, all the audience disappeared, leaving only a little boy who fell asleep for some reason.The little pages and letters woke him up, and he continued to read to him, but he didn't pay much attention, and seemed to be restless on the stool, and kept moving, yawning and turning his head. Doze off little by little.At last he couldn't stay any longer, stood up and left. In this way, the first experiment completely failed.Same thing the next day.At first many people came, but as soon as the little pages began to read, they all ran away.The little letter was a little disappointed and almost wanted to cry, but the little page said:

"The theater's going to go on, with or without an audience. If nobody listens to us, we'll read to each other to ourselves." He told Little Letters to sit on the bench in the auditorium and began to read.A few passers-by stopped, listened for a while and left.Until the little page began to read the joke, a little boy and a little girl came down the street.They stopped and listened for a while, then walked into the garden in the middle of the street and sat on a bench.The jokes that the little pages read, they liked so much, they laughed out loud.Passers-by heard their laughter and became interested.

"Hey, I'm reading a joke here!" They said, and walked into the garden in the middle of the street. The stools were filled up quickly, and the little ones listened intently, not letting go of a word.The story made them laugh so hard.The story was over, and the little pages began to read another, and then another... No one in the audience left, because everyone found it interesting.When the reading was over, all stood up and thanked the little pages and letters for the pleasure they had given them.One of the youngest little boys asked them if they would still read it tomorrow. After he knew that he would read it tomorrow, he said: He will definitely come back tomorrow.Later, the audience dispersed, and the youngest little man also left, but he came back after a minute. He asked the little book page: Is the story I read tomorrow the same as today?or new?The small pages said it was new.The little guy was happy, and said "I will definitely come tomorrow" again, and then left.

Since then, the little pages and little letters have been reading to everyone in the park in the middle of the street every day. At first they read short stories and fairy tales, and later they began to read some not too long but very interesting stories and fairy tales, and sometimes they even read long novels. It will take several nights to read through.Their audience increased day by day, and in the end they had to add twenty benches, and set up a small stage for the readers, like a stage in a theater.In winter, Reading Theater also set up a winter theater behind the street park. The residents of Sun City are very fond of their reading theater, and many people have started to read books by themselves.They later recalled that their first encounter with books was in the Reading Theater, and they were all grateful for the small pages and letters. Little Pages and Little Letters take their work very seriously.As in the past, they took turns going to the library to borrow the most interesting books.The little page said: He has never been so happy as he is now. "In the past, every time I read an interesting book, I was always very happy and wanted to share my happiness with others." Xiao Shuye recalled. "I'd love to read this book to other little people, and make them have fun too. But I can't go out on the street and read it to everyone I meet! Now that we have Reading Theater, I can Read it to anyone who wants to hear it read. I get a lot of fun out of it!" The days passed peacefully like this, until the terrible thing happened.One day, when Little Book Page was going to the library, she told Little Letter: He will drop by her when he comes back, and then we will go to Reading Theater together.Little Letters waited for him at the appointed time, but the little pages didn't appear for some reason.At first, Xiaoyin thought he was still in the library, so he was not worried, but then he became worried and decided to go to the street to find Xiaopage.She went all the way to the library, but she still didn't meet Little Page; she went into the library, and the caretaker told her that Little Page had indeed been here just now, and that she had borrowed a book about the adventures of Yashka the goose. gone.Little Letter thought, maybe Little Book Page forgot to make an appointment to go to her place, so she went to look for her at his house, but there was no one there either.Little Alphabet thought that he must have met a friend on the street and went to his friend's place.When she got home, she kept looking out the window, but the little pages never came. Thus the day passed, and in the evening Little Alphabet went to the theater with the book to be read aloud.But when she got to the little garden, there were no little pages there either.All the benches were filled with the audience anxiously waiting to start reading.Little Alphabet knew not to keep the audience waiting, so she opened the book to read, but she was too anxious to say a word.Every night, Xiao Shuye always sat at this table with her, but today he suddenly disappeared.Little Letters already understood him: something unfortunate must have happened.She was so sad, her head fell down involuntarily, and a string of teardrops rolled out of her eyes. The little ones were surprised to see her cry.Everyone surrounded her and asked her what was going on.The little letter said sobbingly: The little page is missing.Everyone comforted her and said: Surely he can be found.But Little Letters was not relieved.She said: Xiao Shuye is a very careless person, he has a habit of reading while walking.Obsessed with reading, on his way back from the library he might bump into a pole and break his forehead.He might come to an intersection, inadvertently, cross the street at a red light, get run over by a car or a speeder that is going so fast around town that it can hardly stop. The little people were all moved by Little Alphabet's sorrow and decided to help her.Some went to the police station, and some went to the hospital, because if any accident happened on the street, the injured would definitely go to the hospital or the police station.They quickly walked around and telephoned all the precincts and hospitals, but there were no small pages anywhere. Each sub-bureau dispatched some civilian police to find the small pages.After searching all night, there was no result. At this time, someone thought of telling the news to the newspaper.So the next morning's papers carried the news in detail about the little pages and letters.At the end of this article, I hope that everyone who knows the whereabouts of the small pages will notify the editorial department as soon as possible.