Dance of the King of Sneezes

Author: Wu Meizhen (Sunny Sister)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The "A and A" series is a unique gift for primary school students. With fresh, lively, and humorous writing, it showcases the daily lives of a pair of twin siblings in a single-parent family. These everyday moments are painted in warm, joyful hues, revealing the subtle yet interesting secrets of childhood. It also attempts to provide an accurate sensory interpretation of the essence and power of childhood. It proves a fundamental truth: childhood is a string of joyful pearls. A and A are twin siblings in a single-parent family. Their stories have a real background of childhood life, where life offers children only suffering, sadness, worries, helplessness, grief, and vulnerability. Because they cannot control their own lives or change the adult world, they can only live within the lives given to them by adults. Thus, childhood diverges into two aspects: one is an early-maturing childhood, which is the type of childhood revealed in "The Disappearance of Childhood," and the other is an innocent (natural) childhood, which is the ideal and healthy type. The series we see here belongs to the latter, because the author knows that children's joyful nature is gradually fading. Therefore, she strives to protect children's natural innocence, mend their broken hearts, and soothe their wounded emotions.