Everyone should have such an old grandmother in their hearts
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She is always waiting by the window for your arrival.
Turning to the first page of "The Great Thief Grandma", the guide jun was moved by this simple but realistic description.
In fact, this is a humorous novel that can make children laugh from beginning to end, and they are reluctant to put it down when they pick it up.
The author of the book is David Williams, one of Britain's most famous contemporary children's book authors, who has been known in critical circles as "Roald Dahl's best heir".
He is also a well-known British comedy star and actor, starring in Little Britain. As a public figure, David Williams is a frequent contributor to various events, raising large donations for charities, as he is extremely influential in the UK and has been awarded the honorary title of "Pride of Britain".
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Since 2008, as soon as his children's literature works have been launched, they have been warmly sought after and praised by readers all over the world, and are known for their "humor and humor" and "warm and durable reading".
"The Great Thief Grandma" was rated as the "Preferred Reading for Family Education" in the United Kingdom.
(Translated by Xu Kuang, Relay Press)
What is the magic of this book?
Benn, 11, thinks his 80-something grandma can only chew mints, play scrabble, and smell of stinky cabbage, and he hates spending time with his grandma.
But one day, Grandma wants to take him on an adventure, and Benn begins to study underground pipes, practice swimming, learn various escape techniques...
When he and his grandmother were about to complete the adventure plan, the Queen of England suddenly appeared...
The characters in David Williams are all common characters and stories in the lives of children and teenagers, and through the clever weaving of humorous and witty and novel stories, exaggerated and deformed details will make you laugh, and the stories of warm emotions will make you cry bitterly.
While letting children taste life, destiny, wealth and gender roles, they illuminate their hearts, drive away the shadows of their hearts, and alleviate psychological pressure, all of which reflect the author's extraordinary life and creative wisdom.
This is really a rare children's healing novel.
For as long as Benn remembers, Mom and Dad would drop Benn off at Grandma's house every Friday and then watch the live version of "Dancing with the Stars" TV show.
Benn's parents were passionate about ballroom dancing, almost crazy.
Unfortunately, by the time Benn's parents fell in love with ballroom dancing, it was too late for them to become the winner of the competition.
So they desperately want Benn to fulfill a long-cherished wish they never had: to become a professional ballroom dancer.
Benn even felt that if there was a fire in the house, his parents would definitely go and save their dancing shoes, not him.
So every Friday it was dark for Benn, because Benn didn't like Grandma's house, and he had a lot of reasons to hate Grandma:
1. Grandma always spits into a used tissue, then hides it in the sleeve of a cardigan and wipes her grandson's face with it.
2. Her TV has been broken since 1992 and is now covered in a thick layer of dust, as if it had grown a body of hair.
3. Her house was full of books, and Benn hated to read, but she desperately wanted him to read more.
4. Grandma insisted that people should wear thick winter clothes all year round, even in the hot summer, otherwise it will be detrimental to the body.
5. For Grandma, there was nothing more exciting outdoor activity than holding moldy bread crumbs to feed the ducks in the pond.
6. She kept farting and didn't admit it.
7. The fart she put is not only a cabbage flavor, but also a rotten cabbage flavor.
Until one day, Benn inadvertently opens Grandma's cookie jar and discovers Grandma's secret, she is the world's largest jeweler thief.
Grandma told Benn how she had sailed to the United States on a cruise ship more than fifty years ago and then stole the crown of the President's wife in washington' White House.
On the way home, she ransacked the jewelry of every rich lady on the ship, and she was caught by the captain on the way, so she jumped off the deck and swam the last few miles in the Atlantic, and returned to England with jewelry stuffed in her pants.
How to steal the earrings of the wife of an extremely wealthy Indian landlord with the help of a group of elephants. She coaxed the elephants to stand on the backs of one and build huge ladders for her to climb the walls of the fortress.
and stealing the sapphire brooch of the last queen of Tsarist Russia.
Grandma hid herself in an ancient armor in the museum, and every time the soldiers looked away, she moved forward a few millimeters in iron armor until the brooch was close enough that it took her a week.
Even more bizarrely, in order to escape, Grandma suddenly jumped into the barrel of a cannon and then blasted herself to safety.
Benn loved listening to the stories of these adventures told by his grandmother. At home, Mom and Dad never read to him or told him stories alone, and they always sat on the couch after work and watched TV.
Now hearing these exciting stories from Grandma, Ben really wanted to move in with her. That way he could listen to his grandmother tell stories all day long.
The two even plotted together to steal the imperial treasure from the castle. Dressed as a Japanese ninja, Benn and his grandmother enter the castle through the drainage pipes, only to meet the queen who came to the castle because she couldn't sleep.
It turned out that the queen's grandson, like Benn, thought that the queen's grandmother was very boring.
"But to them, I was just a boring grandmother," the Queen went on, "and he forgot that I was once young." ”
"And one day they'll get old." Grandma added that she gave Ben a meaningful look.
It wasn't until the end that Benn knew that Grandma wasn't a thief at all, Grandma just wanted Benn to spend more time with her, and Grandma was too lonely to be alone. And when Benn finally understands all this, Grandma is about to die of cancer.
In the last days of grandma, she also endured illness and accompanied her grandson on a brave adventure. Until Grandma's death, Benn and Mom and Dad were with Grandma.
Now, more and more children are unwilling to listen to their grandparents and are not willing to accompany their grandparents, and children always have various reasons:
"My grandparents can't play the glory of kings with me", "I can't understand what my grandparents are saying", "My grandparents' life is boring".
Everyone will grow old, everyone has been young, and the changes of the times have made the generation gap deeper and deeper. Don't laugh at the lifestyle of your grandparents now, because they were also young and crazy.
"I sit there quietly, although I don't say a word, you may think that I am old and decayed, but the glory I once was embedded in every corner of the world, is the bridge you passed, the road you walked, I hope that when you are old, sitting like me, there is also my calmness, that calmness." 」
We can't learn about grandparents' pasts, but we should know that each of them is amazingly unique.
The movie version of "The Great Thief Grandma" is also worth watching with your children
(Poster of the movie version of "The Great Thief Grandma")
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