Don't Want to Grow Up (Pipi's First Heartfelt Essays and Picture Book)

Author: Pi Pi
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Pi Pi declares that as Pi Pi, I have only written these few books (listed below). Other books are written by other Pi Pis. I wish them all the best in their writing. Additionally, some articles published in newspapers and magazines were also written by other Pi Pis, and they cannot all be listed here. Please judge for yourselves. In short, the Pi Pi team has grown today. Pi Pi is a prose collection with illustrations created by the renowned Chinese cartoonist Nie Jun. The slightly yellowed Montblanc paper and the faint, self-contained watercolor paintings depict a real "doesn't want to grow up" Pi Pi. Childhood Pi Pi has a square face with tiny features almost indistinguishable, yet still adorable. Watching this little figure play with childhood friends and soar in dreams, you follow Pi Pi's nostalgic words step by step into the warm memories of the past. The Pi Pi who wrote "For Example, Women" and "The So-Called Mr." is a woman who tells stories very well, while the Pi Pi in "Doesn't Want to Grow Up" is a playful and cute girl. Her innocence and cheerfulness are not only in the beautiful sentences but also in the lovely illustrations of this book. Illustrator Nie Jun: "Thank you for this book's fairy-tale-like words about childhood. It has also inspired me, that is, the dialogue between comics, pure literature, and local culture. For children, all small toys are treasures, and the world is transparent and clean. I hope this book can guide us to find the place where we buried our innocence but forgot it when we left."
There were many lonely afternoons when only the elderly and children were left in the courtyard. She saw that I didn't avoid it and smiled at me, as she would have done twenty years later. I took an adult's hand but didn't avoid it either, nor did I smile, just like today. That year, he was nine, and I was ten.