You just want me to be happy, don't you?

Author: Liu Shuhong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Unfiltered Children's Insights - A Child's "Laugh-Out-Loud" Interpretation of the Adult World, Undiminished Innocence - A Dad's Amusing Record of a Whimsical Little Girl! Ranyan's Joyful Childhood Reminds Us of Little Bambolona by Taro Gomi, Nicolas Nickleby by Jean-Jacques Sempé, and Mafalda by Quino—Every Child is a Born Artist. A Dad Uses Humorous and Lively Language to Genuinely Document His Young Daughter Ranyan's Growth Experience. Ranyan is smart, mischievous, and full of curiosity about the world. She always asks "why" about everything, and her actions sometimes leave people speechless, making her seem a bit troublesome, but this adorable little girl is loved by everyone. This little girl eats rice with cola, gets stomachaches from eating too much ice cream, wants to hatch her own baby because she likes her aunt's little one, fears that her dad might accidentally stick to the side of a wall while driving and become an advertisement, believes that police officers stand on the road every day selling paper strips, punches her dad hard when she gets excited, thinks that snowmen get prickly heat when the sun comes out, discusses with her dad after watching cartoons about what happens to souls after death, refuses to go to school and doesn't want to grow up, and skips arithmetic problems so she doesn't want to take the exam. The author writes that growing up is to the daughter's growth, but more to a love and care that parents give their children when they offer their broad and generous love and care—respecting their choices, not suppressing their nature, so that they can grow up healthily and happily. Ranyan's Quotes: "When Grandpa Sun comes out, the snowman Dad built gets prickly heat." "Uncle Ke is sleeping with his mouth wide open—will he eat my dog?" "Police Officer Uncle stands here every day selling small paper strips." "You can consider loneliness as happiness!" "Dad, you also went to a full-time kindergarten, so I won't have to think about you every day!"