My Monster Raising Plan

Author: Huang Yujie
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: For every person who loves fairy tales, cultivate your own monster; for every reader of this book, cultivate your own monster! A collection of original philosophical fairy tales in China, as touching as The Little Prince! The writing is delicate and beautiful, quite sentimental, with a whimsical anding mindset, making it particularly suitable for urban women. The book is richly illustrated with bright colors and a modern artistic sense, offering a strong visual impact on readers. On a night when shooting stars cross the sky, angel wings descend from the heavens; a tailless tiger hands an ice cream to a blind girl; cats wander below your building, eager to learn cooking from you; the curse of the Little Peach Blossom Paradise becomes a spell for eternal love; the seventeen-year cicada waits for a long time underground, stars fall in love with flower buds, but the flower buds fall asleep.
My Monster Cultivation Plan – a peculiar title, some peculiar stories. It’s a fairy tale, yet not a fairy tale; for children to read, yet not just for children; it has the whimsy of angels, witches, moths, and fireflies, but also the pure, hopeless, and bittersweet love! It’s a book that defies classification. Children read it for innocence, teenagers for romance, adults for genuine emotions. When we open this book, we begin a monster cultivation plan; and when we finish reading it, the monsters in the book complete their initial cultivation and leave to go to the world of spirits for further training.
One category is represented by works like The Curse of Little Peach Blossom Paradise, which are fairy tales with a pan-romantic theme. They are mostly written for urban fairy tale columns in fashion magazines like Elle Girl and Cosmo Girl (that is, fairy tales about flowers, grass, small animals, and insects falling in love with humans). The original intention of these fairy tales and their target readers are actually girls aged around 16 to 23 (books like Commemorative Book of Fireflies, Silent Legend, Seventeen-Year Cicada, etc.).
The other category consists of more pure and slightly absurd fairy tales written for fairy tale publications (e.g., A Pig in Tiger Skin, Angel Wings, Seven Games, etc.). While they can be read by adults, they are also quite suitable for children.