Pencil Tree
Title: Pencil Tree
Author: Zhang Huaicun
Translator: Wang Dan
Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84464-700-2
£17.95 €19.95 $27.95
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-84464-701-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-84464-702-6
£14.95 €16.95 $18.95
Hardback - 144 pages
31st March 2022
English
Colour with illustration
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Description:
Pencil Tree is a selection of poems for Children written by Huaicun Zhang. In these poems, she uses beautiful words and advanced imagination to bring children into her world and mind. Various writing styles and wide topics captivate the mind flying along with these beautiful words.
There are paintings/illustrations included in the book by the author herself. The book was written because there isn’t many poetry selections for children previously published.
Content:
As joyful as the children
Clusters of Flowers
The Pencil Tree
I am on the moon
Swaying
Liquor in the Spring
In the eyes of a child
Happiness is flourishing
Fairy Tales in Spring
Songs in Summer
The koala bear in the pencil tree
The spring on the way
A golden dawn
The autumn
A little mouse
The spring
March
Listen, it is the footsteps of the spring
The music of Greece
The autumn
The children
The pleasure
The memory
The dream
The song hiding in the garden
Chasing up the sunlight
The spring never stops
The secret of the pencil tree
The dandelions
The morning glory
Love from Mum
The grass
Wishes
My schoolbag
The amazing autumn
I only need a small piece of land
The host in the fairy tales
Sunlight, a kind of language
Here departs the poetry
At far end of the sky
The joys
The eyes
A stone at the comer of the street
The place where fairy tales inhabit
Is it raining ?
A garden full of footsteps
Every single colour should be flourishing
A night at Madrid
Hydra
The Prado Museum
Plaza de Espana
Poems for children
The grass
Strength obtaining from the North-west
A tree flourishing with sunlight
Autumn in the south
The friendship
Dating with the sun
Flying
Yearnings of the seasons
Grandma's advices
A poem written by my daughter
Children in the village
My desire
The friendship
Holding my tongue
A song in my heart
Hide-and-seek
The drizzle in spring
A green dream
The teacher
Spring is coming out of my poetry
A dream in the morning
The dream
Secrets in Star Heart, one of the twenty-eight
lunar mansions in Chinese culture
Slowly growing up
The white memory
Answer to my friend
The girl who can write and draw
The breeze
An oasis in the heart
The summer
I love this place
Spending my whole life
in taking care of you
Listening
Summer comes over after Granny
About the Author:
Huaicun Zhang is Tu Ethnic Minority, British Chinese. She is a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association and the Royal Society of British Artists. She has held art exhibitions in Hong Kong, Macau, Seoul, Tokyo, New York City, Paris and London.
Publications include: Pencil Tree, One Snowflake, The Oasis in My Heart, The Red House, On the Train of Autumn, Space of Freedom, Huaicun and Her Friends, Listening to the Flower Bloom, Huaicun’s Chinese Painting and Calligraphy.
Huaicun has translated My Name is Bob, BBC Nation’s Favourite Poetry about Childhood, The Red Tiles, The Sky is The Limit and other English illustrated books and poetry selections. Her most recent books include: On the Train of Autumn and The Habitat for Fairy Tales.
About the Translator:
Ms. Wang Dan, British Chinese, a Legal officer and translator, has been awarded a Master of Biochemical Engineering by University of Birmingham, and a Master of Laws by the University of Law in the United Kingdom. Ms. Wang enjoys reading books in History and Culture. She is also fond of exploring the culture and history of different countries. Her translation works include The Pencil Tree, The Habitat for Fairy Tales, and etc. Ms. Wang is currently living in London.