alker Xie Tolstoy (1883-1945) was born in the former Soviet Union. During his 4-year literary career, he personally experienced major historical changes in the country and the world. He is not only a master storyteller, but also wrote many fairy tales for children, poems, plays and novels for adults.
Niam Shaqi Ireland
Niam Shaqi's paintings are painted with oil paintings on a very textured background, and the unique rich and luxurious feeling of this oil painting has made her quickly become a world-class illustrator. She graduated from the University of Marketing and Design in Dublin in 1994.
Her other books published by Little Foot Book Company are: Tales of Wisdom and Miracles (1998), Jack and Peas (1999) and Ancient Irish Legends (2). In 1999, Nyam not only won the Best Illustrated Painting Award of Penguin Mother Children's Book Award, but also won the Best Book of the Year Award of Beister.
Nyam lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her three children. "Very wonderful! The illustrations are beautiful, the words are humorous and rhythmic, and children will be very
attractive books when reading this story aloud … this humorous folk story is very suitable for children to read. The ending is very unexpected. " -"Positive News"
"This is actually a book about computing and animals. In the book, the four seasons are also integrated through repeated accounts.
When reading this story to children under six years old, children will easily follow the grandfather into the story, and then follow the grandmother, with the old milk
followed by the big ox, and then two big-bellied pigs, three black cats, four spotted hens, five whites and six canaries
to try to pull out this big radish. " -Irish children's book company "Pulling Radish" won the Penguin Mother Children's Book Award in 1999!
"Myths and legends are handed down from generation to generation through oral instruction, but each generation has mixed their own unique marks and understandings into the stories. While trying to grasp the vitality, rhythm and emotion of these stories, I also try to feel their language classics and their deep meanings. In this way, I feel that I have also contributed to the development and inheritance of these stories belonging to all mankind. " song