1. Title: The Cricket in Time Square
2. Author: Wen, [American] George. Selden; Pictured, [U.S.] Ghaith. Williams; Translated by Fu Xiangwen;
3. Publisher: 21st Century Publishing House Group
Macmillan Century was jointly funded by Macmillan Publishing Group and Twenty-first Century Publishing Group.
4. Word count: 84,000 words.
5, EditionNext: August 2015 1st Edition, September 2017 2nd Edition.
Stamp, October 2020, 31st printing.
7. Pricing: 25 yuan.
8. Page number: 151 pages.
9. Folio: 32
10. About the Author:
George Selden, formerly known as George Selden Thompson. (1929-1989), born in Connecticut, USA, graduated from Yale University in Connecticut, studied in Rome for a year, and has lived in New York ever since. Love music. He intended to go in the direction of screenwriting, but with the encouragement of his friends, he embarked on the path of children's fiction.
His first book was published in 1956, but what really made him famous was "Crickets in Times Square," which won the Silver Medal at the Newbury Prize for Children's Literature in 1961. At this time the author was 32 years old.
Two sequels followed: "Travels on the Back of Chester Cricket" and "Cricket Chester's New Home".
His other works include Tucker's Suburbs, The Dog Who Can Dive, and The Underwater Park.
Gasth Williams (1912-1996) was a world-renowned illustrator of children's books. Born in 1912 in New York, USA. He moved to England with his father and mother in 1922 and graduated from the Royal College of Art. He originally wanted to pursue a career in architecture, interior design, and sculpture, but when he returned to the United States, he became interested in children's books. In 1945, E.B. White insisted that Williams draw his work "Little Brother Mouse", which made him a shining star among children's picture book painters.
He has illustrated several notable works, the most famous of which include White's "Little Brother mouse", "Charlotte's Net", Roland's "Cabin" series, George Selden's "Crickets in Times Square", Natalie's "Family Under the Bridge", etc.
In addition to painting for countless picture book writers, Williams has also created many works of his own. Among them, "Black Rabbit and White Rabbit" also appeared on the 1958 New York Times list, which is a realistic and warm "love story". He died on 8 May 1996 at the age of 84.
(1) Character relationships
Chester – a musically gifted and nostalgic cricket.
Tucker – A rat, intelligent, righteous, and has a penchant for saving money.
Henry — A cat, Tucker and Chester's friend. Loyal and honest, love music.
Mario – The boy who guards the newsstand and the owner of Chester.
Papa Bellini, Mario's father, is gentle and tolerant.
Mother Bellini, Mario's mother, was not very gentle unless she heard an Italian opera.
Mr. Smedley, a regular newsstand customer and music teacher, was impressed by Chase's musical talent.
Feng Sai – Chinese, owner of an old shop in Chinatown.
Paul – Mario's friend, conductor.
Mickey - fast food counter waiter, friendly to Chester.
[The above is the characters given after the book catalog, a total of ten, divided into three parts, crickets, cats and mice, Mario's family of three, music teachers and other four others.] Other characters mentioned include, Jimmy. Lebowski, a swallow, Nedick's lunch table, Roft's candy shop, the old Chinese gentleman, and so on. 】
(2) Online introduction
Chester, a cricket born in the Prairie of Connecticut, was accidentally taken to a subway station in Times Square, New York, because of his gluttony. The first time the little crickets from the countryside went out, they came to the most prosperous place in the world. In this completely unfamiliar world, he was fortunate enough to be adopted by a kind boy, Mario, the son of a newsstand owner, and became good friends with two old residents of the subway station, Henry The Cat and the Tucker Mouse.
Chester had an amazing musical talent, and the beautiful music he "played" touched everyone who listened to it, becoming the most watched star in New York, changing the poor life of Mario's family. Surprisingly, Chester received so much applause and flowers, and still missed the free life in his hometown, so he said goodbye to his friends and embarked on the road home.
(3) Background of creation
Selden recalls: "One night, I was riding home on the subway, and as I was passing Times Square, I suddenly heard the chirping of a cricket..."
It is this cricket song that evokes Selden's nostalgia and yearning for rural life in connecticut, his hometown. A few minutes later, a rudimentary story appeared in his mind.
(4) Reading notes
One word sums up the story: nostalgia
One sentence sums up the story: a country cricket on a fantastic journey to the metropolis
An article summarizes the story:
Why are crickets representative of nostalgia? Because in the dead of night, the sound of crickets always sounds? Before reading this book, I always thought that this feeling for crickets was exclusive to Chinese. Liusha River has summed it up - it is that cricket, sung in "Feng Feng July", sung in "Tang Feng Cricket", sung in "Nineteen Ancient Poems", sung next to Mulan's loom, sung in Jiang Kui's words...
After reading "Crickets in Times Square", I realized that insects and nostalgia are common to the whole world. Chinese used to express it in poetry, and Americans expressed it in the way of fiction—Selden imagined himself as a cricket and wrote a cute story of human-worm resonance.
Some netizens made a good summary of the story - Chester, a cricket born in the Prairie of Connecticut, was accidentally taken to the subway station in New York's Times Square. In this completely unfamiliar world, he was fortunate enough to be adopted by a kind boy, Mario, the son of a newsstand owner, and became good friends with two old residents of the subway station, Henry The Cat and the Tucker Mouse. Chester had an amazing musical talent, and the beautiful music he "played" touched everyone who listened to it, becoming the most watched star in New York, changing the poor life of Mario's family. Surprisingly, Chester received so much applause and flowers, but he felt unhappy, he never forgot the free life in his hometown, so he said goodbye to his friends and embarked on the road home.
My first impression is that the author compares this cricket to himself, from the American countryside to the metropolis of New York, won some false fame, but the heart is not happy, always think of the mountains and trees of his hometown, then let the cricket rapids retreat and return to his hometown, although the author himself can not do it.
My second impression is that the author heard the crickets at the subway station and suddenly thought of his hometown. "The city that can't stay in the city can't go back to the hometown" is the common proposition of many wanderers, the so-called success of the city and the afternoon sunshine of the hometown, which one makes you happier? In the urban and rural reflection caused by crickets, let a cricket fulfill its wish.
Hemingway, who lived in Cuba for many years, once said, "I don't dwell on life in the big cities at all." The writers of New York, which were all earthworms in a bottle, huddled together, drawing knowledge and nourishment from their contact with each other, wanted to avoid them. ”
Therefore, the bigger problem of urban disease lies in the spiritual level, or urban heart disease - high-pressure work, depressed mood, urban people seem to have more material enjoyment than the countryside, but lose the happiness of the soul.
Returning to the countryside is the ending given by fairy tales, in the real society, if we want to stay in the city for a long time, we need to enhance our hearts, on the one hand, we must be blunt, weaken the impact of pressure and setbacks, on the other hand, we must be sensitive, and increase the perception of happiness for small details of life such as raindrops and flowers.
Finally, the adaptation of the end of the verse of the Quicksand River —
It's that cricket
Steel wings clap at the golden wind
A jump jumped over the Pacific Ocean
Land quietly over New York
Drop off at times square subway station
Sing night after night
Chapter One Tucker
On a Saturday night at the Times Square subway station in New York, Tucker, a long-lived mouse, looks at Mario, a boy who helps his father read the newsstand. Then the newsstand is introduced from the perspective of a mouse. Captain Paul bought a newspaper to support his dismal business. The rat was about to go to sleep when he heard a strange sound.
Chapter Two: Mario
The boy Mario heard the voice too, and following the sound, he found a cricket in the garbage heap. He wiped the crickets clean, put them in a matchbox, and fed them a little chocolate bar.
The boy's mom and dad came out, and the mom wanted to throw it away, saying that bugs spread bacteria. Dad suggested that crickets could stay in the newsstand.
Father also asked, no one buys American Music, or any other good magazine? This sentence paved the way for the later appearance of music professors.
Chapter Three: Chester
Tucker the Mouse came to find Chester the Cricket. Crickets describe how they got here. Three days ago, on an old tree stump by a creek in Connecticut, crickets smelled the salami in the baskets of people who had come to have a picnic. The rat enthusiastically brought the dachshund to share. The crickets fell asleep in the picnic basket, thinking of finding themselves pressed by the bag of roast beef sandwiches, then being taken into the car, into the train, and then into the subway. Later, he finally broke free and jumped out of the car and went to the garbage dump at The Times Square station in New York. The crickets lay here for three days, and finally made a sound, which was heard by the boy. As he was speaking, a cat came.
Chapter Four: Henry
Henry the cat turns out to be good friends with Tucker the Mouse, and they live together in the drain. Two elderly New York residents enthusiastically introduce crickets to various things. They said they could help the crickets get to the train home, but they suggested he experience the city life first. Tucker leads the crickets from the drain pipe to the ground and admires Times Square. The neon of the city's high-rise buildings gave the crickets a great sense of shock and strangeness, but fortunately, there were stars in the sky as if they had seen them in their hometown, giving a little comfort.
Chapter Five: Sunday Morning
On Sunday morning, the boy and dad came to the newsstand together, the crickets were still there, the boy gave the crickets a lot of good food, and took the crickets to the lunch counter next to drink water, the glass was too slippery, and the crickets fell into the water. Mickey, a good friend at the lunch table, also made strawberry-flavored soda for the crickets and gave them a special paper cup.
Dad chatted with his regular customer, Mr. Smedley, a music teacher who regularly came to buy American Music every month. They talk about opera. The boy's parents loved Italian opera and they were of Italian descent.
The music teacher was amazed by the crickets, which were likened to Orpheus. The boy asked to go to Chinatown to buy cages for the crickets.
Chapter Six: Von Sai
The boy takes the crickets on the subway to Chinatown, and the crickets meet New York City during the day. The boy found Feng Sai's Chinese antique shop. Looking at the shop Chinese from an American text, it feels intimate and strange. For example, a pagoda-shaped cage, we understand it well, but the illustrator's diagram seems to be a little out of the picture. Feng Sai said that this was a cage prepared for the Chinese emperor to raise crickets. He told the boy the story of the first cricket.
A long time ago there was a man with prophetic powers who knew everything. The bad guys wanted to kill him, and the Jade Emperor, in order to protect him, turned him into a cricket, a singing cricket.
Feng Sai only received fifteen cents, and the boy could afford it. Feng Sai also gave the boy a small bell that could be placed in a cage, and also gave him a fortune cookie with a lucky note in it.
Chapter Seven: Cricket Cages
At night, both cats and mice come to admire the crickets' new cages. The rat really wanted to lie in it and feel it, and he asked the cricket to hand in two one-dollar bills, one for a mattress, one for a quilt, and one for his mother's earrings as a pillow. The rat said I slept on a bill in the palace. Cats sleep in back pipes, crickets still sleep in matchboxes.
Chapter Eight: Tucker's Life Savings
At night, the cricket sleepwalked, dreaming that he had returned to the countryside and ate leaves, in fact, he had eaten half of a two-dollar note. Woke up and discussed a solution with the rat, and before he could discuss it, the boy's mother came to work, saw the rat, and the mother used a book to injure the mouse's leg.
Then the boy and his mother arrived, and they were going to go swimming in Coney Island, but the mother pointed the culprit of the broken money at the crickets, and asked the boy to pay two dollars before the crickets could be released. Boys go to the grocery store to work to earn money.
In the evening, cats and mice come to see the crickets again. The rat confesses that he is a thrifty mouse, and he often risks his life to pick up the money dropped by humans. His savings were two dollars and ninety-three cents. The rat gave generously for his friend and took out two dollars. The next day, the boy's mother found that the two dollars had returned, and was very happy, so she released the crickets.
Chapter Nine: Chinese Dinner
The boy felt that the crickets ate paper money, maybe they were feeding wrong, so he took the crickets to Chinatown. Feng Sai called it the little cricket boy, and there was an old Chinese gentleman here.
Feng Sai asked the boy to stay and eat, authentic Chinese food - assorted vegetables, pork fried rice, cashew fried noodles, pineapple duck. Finally, there is Chinese tea. Feng Sai taught him to use Chinese chopsticks, which were used as two long fingers.
The boy asks why do crickets eat paper money? The two Chinese looked at a Chinese book and saw pictures of princesses and crickets on it, which said crickets eat mulberry leaves. The crickets played another song, and the old Chinese man was moved to wipe his tears with a handkerchief. The old man said it was like listening to crickets singing in the gardens of the palace. This seems to be a metaphor for the old man being the emperor or someone in the palace. The old man gave the boy twelve mulberry leaves.
Chapter 10 Dinner
Crickets want to throw a party with cats and mice involved. Crickets clean the grounds, rats prepare a variety of food, and even drinks with ice cubes. The cat who had just gone to the concert turned on the radio to listen to the song. The crickets let the cat sing out, although it was a little ugly.
Crickets learn from the music of the radio: "Blue Danube" waltz, Italian folk suite, opera aria, South American rumba... The rat danced along with it, and he circled the pipe and accidentally overturned the matchbox, causing a fire. They pressed their alarm clocks, drawing in crowds of rescuers. Captain Paul came to put out the fire.
Chapter 11: Ominous Things
Paul called the boy's father after putting out the fire, the boy's family took a taxi to come, Paul mentioned that there were small animals running out, and the mother naturally blamed the fire on the small animals. Mom said that crickets are an ominous thing that touches moldy heads.
The rats came to visit and were willing to give them all their savings. The crickets didn't complain about the rats, saying it was all their fault, that my arrival had brought them bad luck.
Feeling sad crickets, she inadvertently played an Italian song she had just learned, "Return to Sorrento", which is the heart song of the boy's mother, who recalls that when she was young in Italy, she and her father were in love, and the song was full of her memories.
It's a big twist in the book, and a woman who's going to put crickets to death is touched by the music of crickets. Music saved lives at critical times. The crickets continued to play, and when Dad returned, he heard the crickets playing the opera Aida, a cricket that sang a song. The rat wants to be his agent.
Chapter XII: Mr. Smedley
The cricket's agent, Mouse and Cat, discuss how to maximize cricket talent, and they use the radio to let the cricket learn a variety of music. The next day was a Sunday, the last Sunday in August, and the crickets began their own performance.
The crickets first played two hymns, "The Rock of Eternity" and "The March of the Christ Soldiers", as well as the Rosary And the Lord is My Stronghold. The music teacher was shocked and said: The whole world should come to know this cricket. He immediately wrote a letter to the music editor of The New York Times.
Chapter 13: The Big Splash
The New York Times published the letter, and more and more people came to the newsstand to find out. Crickets first came a song of Mozart's Serenade. The crowds also left stalls with newspapers and magazines sold out, and many people delayed their work because they listened to music. The boy's parents arranged two performances in the morning and one night, and Feng Sai and the old man also came to listen. The crickets feel a little tired, especially in September when they see fallen leaves. The boy also felt as if the crickets were unhappy.
Chapter Fourteen: Olpheus
The cricket's agent, Rat, let the crickets get in touch at night, but the crickets didn't want to practice. The crickets are homesick. The mouse was a little incomprehensible, but the cat supported his idea. They finally agreed to have a farewell show tomorrow night on Friday, and tonight they had a three-person party.
The next night, Crickets chose a piece from an opera as a farewell repertoire. The music sounded, and the whole subway station went silent, as if it had become a grassland.
Chapter 15: Central Station
After the concert, the parents went out, the boy and the crickets were alone, played two games, the crickets also sang their own songs for the boys alone, and the boys fell asleep. Taking advantage of this opportunity, cats and mice deliver crickets to the train home. Mom and Dad came back to find the crickets missing, and the boy knew that the crickets had gone on their own. Cat and mouse can't sleep and meet next summer to go to the countryside to see old cricket friends.
4. Excerpts from the original text
1. The rat is looking at Mario.
The rat's name is Tucker, and it's sitting at an abandoned drainage outlet at a Times Square subway station in New York City. This drain pipe is its home. From here, a few meters back, against the wall, there was a direct way into a cave, but it was already stuffed with confetti and cloth strips that Tucker had picked up everywhere. Usually, when Tucker doesn't dig around to dig for treasure or when he's called "searching" for snow or not sleeping, he loves to sit at the exit of the drain pipe and look at the world of flowers and flowers coming and going outside—well, at least the part of the world that is rushing up and down the Times Square subway station.
2) Living to this age, Tucker has heard almost all kinds of voices in New York City. It had heard the rumbling of subway trains, the shrill cries of iron wheels rubbing against the tracks as they turned. In addition, it has heard all kinds of strange sounds coming from time to time outside the iron fence leading to the street: such as the thumping of car rubber tires, the rattling of horns, and the harsh noise of cars when slamming on the brakes. Not only that, but he had heard the noise of the crowds at the station, the barking of dogs tied to one end of their owner's belt. Even the spread of pigeons, the cries of cats, including the sound of planes flying over the city, have been taught. But in this life, even with the many journeys it had made across the world's largest city, Tucker had never heard such a sound.
3. "Well, that's fine, we can take you to the nearest station and get you on a train to Connecticut and go home." Tucker said, "But why don't you take the opportunity to try your hand at city life? ”
4 Chester's eyes gradually adapted to these lights. It lifted its head and looked up, far above, in the night sky, higher than New York and above the whole world, and it recognized a star that had been seen in Connecticut in the past. When they came down to the station again, Chester lay down in the matchbox again, still thinking of the star in his heart. The thought that after all these new and strange encounters, there was such a familiar thing, still hanging there, blinking at it, it really made it much better.
5. "What sprouts can I teach it?", said Mr. Smedley, "it has received the best training from the greatest teacher, nature." Nature gave it a pair of wings that could be pulled interactively, and gave it the instinct to make such a beautiful musical sound. I couldn't add any more talent to this little black 'Olphes'.
6. "Orpheus was one of the greatest musicians of all time. The music teacher replied, "A long, long time ago, he was a harp-playing musician. His playing is so beautiful that not only do humans like it, but even the rocks, trees and waterfalls will stop and listen to him. Lions no longer chase elk, rivers stop flowing, and the wind listens with bated breath. The whole world was quiet. ”
7. There is a sign in front of the store that reads "Feng Sai - Chinese Antiques". Below the signboard, a line was added with relatively small words: "Concurrently operating hand laundry". An old Chinese man sat in the doorway on his knees. The tunic he wore was embroidered with dragons with red silk thread, and a silk vest was added to the outside. The old man was smoking a cigarette with a long white clay pipe.
8. After a few minutes, Feng Sai returned to the room. He brought a pagoda-shaped cricket cage. The cage has seven layers, each a little smaller than the lower one, and at the top is a thin spire. The bottom of the cage is painted red and green, the spire is golden, and there is a door with a small lock on one side.
9, a long time ago, at the beginning of Pangu, there were no crickets in the world. But there are very intelligent people who know everything in the world. This man had a name, Xi Shuai, and he only spoke the truth. There are no secrets in the world that he doesn't know. He knew the minds of animals and men, the desires of flowers and trees, and the fate of the sun and the stars. To him, the whole world is like a spread page that can be read as much as he wants. Even the Jade Emperor, who lived in the heavens, loved Him deeply because of the truth told by Xi Shuai.
"Many people have come from far and wide to listen to Xi Shuai predict their fate. He would say to this: 'You are a good man, and you will live as long as the cedar trees that grow on the side of the mountain.' To the other, he said, 'You bastard, you're dying.' Good bye! Since Xi Shuai only told the truth to everyone, the bad guys were very unhappy when they heard his words. They thought: 'I'm a bad person, and now, everyone knows how bad I am.' So the bad guys decided to join forces to kill Xi Shuai. Xi Shuai knew very well that they were going to kill him, because he knew everything, but he didn't care. Xi Shuai's heart was like a lotus flower, exuding a sweet and fragrant breath, full of calm. So he just waited. “
However, the Jade Emperor who lived in heaven refused to let Xi Shuai be killed in this way. He believed that this man who only spoke the truth was more precious than the emperor of the world. So when those bad guys wanted to kill Xi Shuai, the Jade Emperor turned him into a cricket. So this man, who only spoke the truth and knew everything, began to sing songs that no one understood, but that everyone loved to hear. But his song gods will understand and be deeply moved. For them, the beautiful cricket song is the song sung by the man who is still telling the truth and knows everything. ”
10, Mario has taken a lot of effort to learn to use chopsticks. They always disobeyed and kept slipping out of his hands. "Think of them as two very long fingers." Feng Sai said.
11. "Here! Over here! "Von sai also shouted at Mario." This is the story of an ancient Chinese princess. She kept crickets as a pet and fed them the leaves of mulberry trees. The book reads: 'Just as a silkworm eats a mulberry leaf and spits out beautiful silk, just as a cricket that eats a mulberry leaf weaves a beautiful song.' ’”
12. Feng Sai and his friends were deeply moved by this concert, and they sat there with their eyes closed, and their faces showed an extremely peaceful expression. When it was finished, the old Chinese gentleman took a silk handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his nose, his eyes wet. He wiped his eyes with a handkerchief and said something to Feng Sai softly.
"He said it was like listening to crickets singing in the garden of the palace."
13, mom is untying a bundle of Herald Forum weekly, when she suddenly hears crickets playing. At first, she didn't know what was going on, saying in Italian: "Che cos'e questa?" (What is this?) ）
14 Right now, he's playing a piece called "Back to Solento." This time, with particular luck, it happened to be Bellini's mother's most heartfelt song. Before Mom and Dad came to the United States, in Naples, Italy, Dad courted Mom and often came to her window on the night of the moon, playing an old guitar and singing this folk song. When the crickets played, My mother reveled in the scene of that year: the night was quiet and warm, and a bright moon shone like a swan in the harbor of Naples, and Her father sang to her. She remembered the years that had passed, tears in her eyes, and couldn't help but hum the lyrics softly.
15. The ability to memorize music is very strong. He only had to listen to the song once to remember it.
16 The mother's eyes were like a dream, she reached out and put her arms around her son and said, "Mario, the cricket who can sing such a moving Italian song cannot set fire, he can stay for a while." "
17) New York is a place where people are willing to pay the price for genius.
18 The situation in New York is always like this: somewhere surrounded by a group of people, more people have to walk together to see what others are looking at. Bees do this, and so do humans.
19"Oh, the marmots, the pheasants, the ducks, the rabbits, all those who live in the grass or in the creek." Once, a bullfrog told me that his favorite thing to listen to was my music, apart from the sound of raindrops falling on the pond where he lived. Another time, next to the tree stump where I lived, a fox was chasing a rabbit. When I played, they all stopped to listen. "
20 "My opinion is," he concluded, "this is Chester's own life, and he can do whatever he wants." If honor can only make people unhappy, what good is it to be famous? Some people retire when their careers are at their peak. But, to be honest, I have to say that I would be very sad to see him leave here. "
21 In those few minutes of singing, Times Square was as quiet as the meadow at dusk. Sunlight came in and shone on people. The breeze blew on them as if blowing deep thick grass.
22 "I mean rural Connecticut," Tucker said.
"I see what you mean," said Harry the Cat.
V. Appendix: Cricket's Poetry and The Newbury Prize Winners
(1) Crickets in ancient poetry
May Stings Move Stocks, June ShakeRsa Chicken Shake Feathers.
July is in the wild, August is in the universe, and September is in the household
- "Poetry, Wind and July"
"Poetry Classic, Tang Feng, Crickets"
Crickets in the church, years and years. Now I am not happy, the sun and the moon are divided.
There is no great health, and the job thinks of its residence. Good fun, good man Qu Qu.
Crickets are in the church, and they have passed away at an early age. I am not happy today, the sun is going to be gone.
Nothing has been greatly improved, and the profession is outside. There is no shortage of happiness, and the good people are trampled.
Crickets are in the church, and the service car is resting. Now I am not happy, the sun and the moon are worried.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Think about it. Good fun, good people rest.
【Song】Jiang Kui "Qi Tianle Crickets"
[At the age of Ying Chen, he and Zhang Gong's father will drink Zhang Dake's Hall.] Hearing the sound of crickets between the walls of the house, the father of the gong gave the same endowment to the singer. The father is the first to succeed, and the words are very beautiful. Yu Pei returned to the end of the flowers, looked up at the autumn moon, suddenly meditated, and found this. Crickets, in the middle of the call to promote weaving, good fighting. The good deeds may be given for three or two hundred thousand dollars, and the skeleton teeth are stored for the building. 】
Yu Lang first groaned to himself, and he was miserable and whispered. Dew wet copper shop, moss invaded the stone well, are once listened to Yi place. The lament is like a complaint. The woman is sleepless and looking for opportunities. Ququ Ping Shan, what is the mood of the night cool alone?
The west window blew dark rain again. For whom is the frequency intermittent, phase and anvil pestle? Waiting for the autumn, leaving the palace to hang the moon, do not have countless sadness. Poetry and manga. Laughing at the fence and calling the lamp, children of the world. Write the piano wire, a sound is more bitter.
In 1982, Yu Guangzhong said in a letter to Liushahe: "Overseas, when you hear crickets at night, you will think that it is the one you heard in the countryside of Sichuan." Four years later, Yu wrote two lines in "Cricket Yin": "Is it the one that escaped in childhood?" Forty years gone, and then come back to me? The words on the letter touched the inspiration, and Liushahe wrote the poem as an answer, which was published in the supplement of Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong.
Liushahe (November 11, 1931 – November 23, 2019) was a modern Chinese poet, writer, scholar and calligrapher. Born in 1931 in Jintang, Sichuan, his real name is Yu Xuntan.
Yu Guangzhong (October 21, 1928 – December 14, 2017) was a contemporary writer, poet, scholar and translator born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
"It's That Cricket"
Quicksand River
It's that cricket
Steel wings clap at the golden wind
A jump jumped over the strait
Land quietly over Taipei
Fall in your yard
Sing night after night
It's that cricket
He sang it in "The Wind and July"
Sung in "Tang Feng Crickets"
It was sung in the Nineteen Ancient Poems
Sang next to Mulan's loom
It was sung in jiang fu's words
Laborers have heard
Si Woman has heard it
It's that cricket
I sang it on the side of the post road in the mountains
It was sung on the beacon of the Great Wall
Sung in the patio of the hostel
Sang among the weeds of the battlefield
Lonely guests have heard
Wounded soldiers have heard
It's that cricket
Sing in your memory
Singing in my memory
Sing childhood surprises
Sing the loneliness of middle age
I think of carving bamboo to make a cage
I think of the hoop lamp fence falling
Think of mooncakes
Think of osmanthus flowers
I think of the pomegranate fruit full of pearls
I think of the yellow leaves flying in the old garden
I think of the remnants of the wild pond
Think of the geese flying south
I think of the piles of hay in the fields
I remembered my mother calling us back to get dressed
Remembering the years secretly flowed away many, many
It's that cricket
Sing on this side of the strait
Sing over the strait
Sing in an alley in Taipei
Sing in a village in Sichuan
Everywhere you go in each Chinese your feet
Sing everywhere
More monotonous than the most monotonous pieces
More harmonious than the most harmonious sound
Condensed into water
It's dewdrops
Burn to light
It's fireworks
Become a bird
It's partridges
Crying in the heart of the nostalgic
It's that cricket
Sing outside your window
Sing outside my window
You're listening
You're missing
I'm listening
I'm moaning
You should guess what I'm moaning about
I'll guess what you're thinking
Chinese have a Chinese mentality
Chinese have Chinese ears
July 10, 1982 in Chengdu
Cricket Chant
In the afterglow
A week before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I was in my kitchen
Timid and lonely has added a new guest
How to break in by mistake, when to move out
No one knows, only hears
Rise and fall from the corner of the refrigerator
Indoor suspicious outdoor surprise pastoral
A thin and thin flute rhyme
Crisp and intimate, trembling with that string of syllables
Touching the memories of childhood tulle
A wisp of autumn thought draws a thread
The pumping is also continuous, trance tentacles of the fibers
Gently stroke the dewy wet grassland
At night, the kitchen is lit in the moonlight
Crock pot copper pot backlit silhouette
The tall and low row of bottles
He heard God and stretched his neck
Is it the one that escaped as a child?
Forty years gone and called back to me?
At night, the stove is extinguished
Another kind of busyness resembles thailand's borders
Secret smuggling gangs are roaming with cockroaches
But it didn't bother the piccolo to play the little hermit
A window at the junction of dreams and moonlight
How nice it sounds to play the silence of the silver crystal
(3) 1922-2018 Newberry Award winners
The Newbery Medal, also known as the Newbery Prize. In 1922, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a branch of the American Library Association (ALA), created the Newbery Medal for Best Children's Book. Awarded annually, it is dedicated to outstanding works of English children's literature published in the previous year.
[Newbury, a famous British publisher. Newbury was born in England in 1713. He is a self-taught children's literature writer and publisher. In 1744 he wrote and published the world's first specialized, inexpensive children's book: The Beautiful Little Book; He opened the world's first specialized children's book printing plant and the world's first dedicated children's bookstore. Newberry is known as the "Father of Children's Literature" for pioneering the development path of modern Anglo-American children's literature. The Newberry Prize, founded in 1922 by the American Library Association, awards gold and silver to outstanding children's literature from around the world each year. 】
1922: The Story of Mankind
Silver Award: The Adventures of Freddie
1923: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
1924: The Dark Frigate
1925: Tales from Silver Lands
1926: Shen of the Sea
1927: Smoky the Cow horse
1928: Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow
1930: Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
1931年：The Cat Who Went to Heaven
1932: Waterless Mountain
1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
1934年：Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women
1935: Dobry
1936: Caddie Woodlawn / Red-Haired Girl
1937: Roller Skates
1938: The White Stag
Silver Award: On the Banks of Plum Creek;
1939: Thimble Summer
Silver Award: Mr. Pope's Penguin Popper's Penguine）
1940: Daniel Boone
Silver: By the Shores of Silver Lake
1941: Call It Courage
Silver Award: A Long Winter
1942年：The Matchlock Gun
Silver: Little Town on the Prairie
Silver Award: The Moffats
1943年：Adam of the Road
1944年：Johnny Tremain (Yearling Newbery)
1945: Rabbit Hill
Silver: The Hundred Dresses
1946: Strawberry Girl
Silver: My dad's little wyvern
1947年：Miss Hickory (Newbery Library, Puffin)
1948: The twenty-one Balloons
1949: King of the Wind
1950年：The Door in the Wall
1951: Amos Fortune, Free Man
1952: Ginger Pye
1953年：Secret of the Andes (Puffin Book)
Silver Award: Charlotte's Web
1954年：... And Now Miguel
1955: The Wheel on the School
1956年：Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
1957: Miracles on Maple Hill
1958年：Rifles for Watie
Silver: Ben and Me
Silver Award: Vanishing Lake
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Silver Award: The Family Under the Bridge
1960: Onion John
Silver Award: My Side of the Mountain
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Silver Award: The Cricket in Times Square
1962: The Bronze Bow
1963: A Wrinkle in Time/ The Call of The Moment
1964年：It's Like This, Cat
1965年：Shadow Of A Bull
1966年:I, Juan de Pareja (Sunburst Book)
1967年：Up a Road Slowly
1968年：天使雕像（From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler）
Silver: The Black Pearl
1969: The High King
1970: Sounder
1971: Summer of the Swans
Silver Medal: Knee Knock Rise
1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH/Secret Base for Laboratory Rats
1973: Julie of the Wolves/daughter of the Wolf King
1974: The Slave Dancer / The Sinking of the Moonlight / Dance Slave
Silver: Darkness is spreading
1975: M. C. Higgins, the Great
Silver: Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
1976: The Grey King
1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Silver Award: The Real Thief; The Real Thief Abel's Island）
1978: Bridge to Terabithia
Silver Award: Ramona and Her Father
1979: The Westing Game
1980年：A Gathering of Days
1982年：A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
Silver Award: Ramona Quimby, Age 8
1983: Dicey's Song/Orphan Girl Lament
Silver Award: Rat Dentist – Doctor DeSoto
1984 Dear Mr. Henshaw
Silver Medal: The Sign of the Beaver
The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
1985年：The Hero and the Crown
Silver Award: One Eye Cat
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall/ New Mom by the Sea
Silver Award: Dogsong
1987: The Whipping Boy
1988: Lincoln
Silver Award: Hatchet Boy
1989 Joyful Noise
1990: Number the Stars
Silver Award: The Winter Room
1991: Joy and Me (Shiloh)
Silver Award: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
1992: Maniac Magee
Silver Award: Nothing but the Truth
1993: Missing May
Silver Award: What Hearts
1994: The Giver/Grantor
Silver Award: Crazy Lady
1995: Walk Two Moons for Indians
Silver Award: Ears, Eyes and Arms
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice
1997: The View from Saturday
Silver Award: A Story of Love (Belle Prater's Boy)
1998: Out of the Dust
Silver Award: Ella Enchanted
1999: Holes
Silver: A Long Way from Chicago
2000: Bud, not Buddy
Silver Award: 26 Fairmount Avenue
2001: A Year Down Yonder / That year at Grandma's house
Silver: Because of Winn-Dixie
Silver Award: The Wandering Tale of the Young Sophie
2002: A single shard
Silver: Everything on a Waffle
2003: Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Silver Award: The House of the Scorpion
2004: The Tale of Despereaux/Double Rat
2005: Kira-Kira/Shiny
Silver: Al Capone Does My Shirts
2006: Criss Cross
Silver: The Legend of Wellington (Whittington)
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky
Silver Award: David's Rules
Silver Award: Heidi's Sky
2008: Kind Uncle! Help!
2009: The Graveyard Book
2010: When You Reach Me
2011: Moon Over Manifest
2012: A magical summer in norfo town
2013: Ivan the Unique
2014: Flora and the Squirrel Man
2015: "Crossover" and "The Crossover"
2016: Last Stop on Market Street
2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
2018: Hello Universe Hello, Universe