"Ordinary people can become the brightest stars in the night sky as long as they have a pure and kind heart." This was what her mother had told Aniya, and the ten-year-old girl had always believed in it. It wasn't until she saw bright stars in the sky at night outside the foster home's window that she thought she had finally found her mother.
"The Child Who Chased the Stars" tells us a warm story with pain. The 10-year-old protagonist, Aniya, has always dreamed of becoming a star hunter, the astronaut who knows the stars best. When her mother disappeared, she and her five-year-old brother Noah came to foster homes. At this time a special astronomical event appeared on television, it was a burning planet, and people held a contest for her name. Ania firmly believes that this is the star of her mother's incarnation, and she must find her mother so that she can tell people all the truth and people will not get her name wrong. She and her foster family's friends have a top-secret plan to go to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, to make it all happen, but the plan doesn't go well, can they do it?
"The Child Who Chased the Stars" is a novel by British social activist Angali Scott. Q． Rowe's second work, she has won the "Blue Peter Children's Book Award , Best Story Award" and "Waterstone Bookstore Children's Book Award" with "The Boy Sitting in the Last Row of the Classroom" and many other awards, this time she also did not disappoint us, when you read this story with tears, the harvest is warmth and strength.
Every child has a sky of their own in their hearts, and the sky in Aniya's heart is given by her mother. Her mother is gentle and kind, and deeply in love with her and her brother, she tells the children about the unusual things that happen at home in the name of a game, those "home games", "disappear first and apologize games", "hide and seek games" wrap all the pain in love, so that the children get the greatest protection in the family. When the stars of her mother's avatar hung in the sky, how could Ania control herself from looking for her and getting close to her? She and her friends set off at night, narrow paths, buses, unfamiliar surroundings, and of course hunger and fear, but none of this stopped them. When they came to the London Observatory from a small village near Oxford, Aniya recalled and understood everything in the place closest to the star.
In the book, you will see the sensitive and innocent hearts of these children, and you can see the strength, bravery and persistence of these children with the power of love, and all this comes from the love of Aniya's mother for the child, from the most simple but extensive love of countless strangers for this little girl.
The pain is spoken out in such a gentle way that when we weep again, it is not because of the pain, but because of the touch. As a result, we understand more that no matter what happens, our love is the most powerful protection for the child, and those marks of love will become the eternal courage of the child.