Five children and the sand fairy (Bookworm. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader) (Bookworm. Oxford English-Chinese Parallel Reader)

Author: Edith Nesbit
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Publish Date: 1998-06-01
Features: "Grub" is a premium offering jointly brought to by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press and Oxford University Press. In English, "Grub" is a rather adorable image. Imagine such a "Grub" completely immersed in books, tirelessly chewing on letters. Now, this "Grub" has crossed the seas and landed gently in the hands of Chinese English learners. "Grub" will first give you a letter, even if you currently only have a few hundred words, you can easily read world-class works. "Grub" will also remind you with its fine chirping: to persevere in reading, to read widely and richly. By the time you finish the last book in the series, you might suddenly realize: you have transformed like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, ready to take flight! It's a "Semi-deed" (i.e., a sand fairy). One day, children digging in a gravel pit discovered it. It was already thousands of years old. Of course, sand fairies can help people realize their wishes—but only one wish per day, and everything ends when the sun sets. Anicia, Cyril, Robert, and Jane thought this was fantastic. Their little brother was too young to make wishes and spent most of his time at home; but the others were planning something exciting. But what was it? To become beautiful, rich, or to fly like a bird? Sometimes it's hard to think of a truly good wish, but it's easy to blurt out "I wish," and then you get something you don't really want. At that point, the sand fairy refuses to help. When things go wrong, it gets angry and says, "Why didn't you think it through first?" And indeed, things often go wrong.