心一荐书:儿童英文章节书及小说书单
2020-07-25 22:49阅读:
有读者留言,希望心一能推荐一个书单。我如实传达之后,心一仅凭记忆,迅速列出了长长的一份,美其名曰:“心一的超级书单”,或可直译为“心一的史诗级别书单”:
此书单,是心一从7岁起脱离绘本,开始读章节书,一直到现在,所读儿童小说里的精品。按年龄分类,每本还做了详细评述。
需要强调一下。心一读书,仅凭自己兴趣,不听从别人的推荐。魔法、奇幻之类的书,心一一直不感兴趣,再有名也不读,比如《哈利波特》系列,比如《纳尼亚传奇》系列等等。所以,尽管有些也适合所有读者,这个书单的面比较窄,更适合心一这样性格的女孩。
心一是仪式感的完美主义者,选了各种颜色的字体以作年龄区分,太细,让我眼花缭乱,只得大致按年龄编辑了一下。
书单,及评述的大意翻译如下:
Sunny’s Epic Book List
心一的超级书单
7岁+ (章节书及小说)
Daisy and the trouble with ……….. by Kes Gray
Very good, very funny, very relatable, very good pictures.
好玩,配图精彩。
(心一的评价里,用了很多次'relatable'这个词,相当于,“很有共鸣”。Daisy的这个系列,基本就是搞怪,搞笑。心一小时候很是喜欢。)
-The Lotus Lane series by Kyla May
Very relatable and very fun and full of great pictures! Written
like a diary.
好玩。配图好看。日记体文字。
-Fancy Nancy
Very good pictures and very fun and slightly french and very
fancy!
好玩,配图精彩,有点法国味,很花哨!
-Fancy Nancy chapter books
For older readers who love fancy nancy!
(心一一直很喜欢Fancy Nancy系列的绘本,以及章节书。这是此书单里唯一一套绘本。)
-David Williams Books
So, so funny! Wonderful pictures. Would recommend to
everyone.
好玩!配图好!推荐给每个人!
(David
Walliams的书,心一到现在12岁了还在读。前两天在院子里的吊床上,读着其中的一本,优哉游哉。我当时忿忿地想,这么大了还在读“幼稚书”!)
-Books by Roald Dahl
Very funny and very good. They are classics and they are all
amazing.
经典。有趣。
(罗德代尔的书,是儿童文学的经典。心一在8岁时,因兴趣,开始录制《查理的巧克力工厂》有声书,花了两年时间录完,10岁结束。这应该是全网唯一的标准英音童声朗读版。有兴趣的读者朋友,可以下载微信小程序
“蜗牛英语Sanily”,在'童声频道“里收听。请点击图案,进入蜗牛英语小程序。
-Real Friends (graphic novel) by Shannon Hale
Suitable to those who have friendship troubles and one of the best
graphic novels ever!
如果你交不到朋友,或者和好朋友发生了矛盾,此书最为适合! 这是最好的漫画小说之一!
(心一读的书,最主要的主题就是如何处理孩子们之间的友谊。这类书读多了,心一在学校很擅长交朋友。)
-Diary of a Whimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Funny, but uses slang and if you want to speak slightly less
conversational you shouldn't read them.
有趣。但俚语太多,口语化太重。
(这个系列,是所有孩子们的最爱。心一可能受我文字洁癖的遗传,对文字有点吹毛求疵。)
-Dork Diaries by Rachel Rennee Russell
Very, very good! I love them and they are very relatable and funny
with very good pictures!
非常棒!我喜欢!很有共鸣,很好玩。配图精彩。
(这套书,也是孩子们的最爱。)
-My Weird school by Dan Gutman
Very funny but has simple and slang language.
搞笑,但俚语太多。
(这套书,心一小时候很是沉迷。主人公是一个调皮捣蛋的男孩。心一在书店里搜集了全套系列。现在她对此书的评价,似乎很冷静清醒。当时我觉得此套书过于搞怪,太沉迷不好,现在看来,随着年龄的增长,孩子的读书品味,会自然提高,家长不必干预。
-Heidi Heckelbeck series
Smaller chapter books! They have magic and fun things in them, very
relatable and very good!
适合低幼孩子的章节书。有趣。
(心一小时候,在书店里收集了此系列的所有书。)
看到这个系列,我问,Jonie B
Jones系列的书呢?心一说,哦,哦,忘了,也很好,插图也漂亮,就是表述太美国,有些俚语不是太明白。
-Tom Gates series
Good for fans of diaries of a wimpy kid, and funny and full of
pictures.
喜欢《小屁孩日记》的读者,一定喜欢这个系列。搞笑。配图丰富。
-My Funny Family Series
Funny and very very good!
搞笑。强烈推荐!
(我最初在香港Page One书店给心一买的这个系列。香港Page One后来全线倒闭,只剩记忆了。)
10岁 -- 13岁(小说)
(注:心一书目里的年龄分段,采用的是英语国家的标准,适合国内国际学校或同等英语水平的孩子。仅供参考。)
-Fish in a tree by Lynda Hunt
It is about a girl who cannot read. Suitable to those who have
dyslexia, but also to those who don’t.
关于一位有阅读障碍的女孩。适合有阅读问题的读者,当然也适合所有人。
-The Willow Fall series by Wendy Mass
They are slightly about fantasy, but set in reality. About some
people who travel in time, and are very relatable and very
good.
带点玄幻色彩,但基于现实生活。关于时间穿越。有共鸣。很棒。
-Murder Most Unladylike series by Robin Stevens
One of my favourite series! They are so good and very clever. They
are very enthralling and slightly scary, but relatable if you're
asian and moved to a foreign country.
我最喜欢的系列之一! 引人入胜,稍有一点点恐怖。如果你是一位亚洲姑娘,生活在海外,会很有共鸣。
The Babysitters’ club series by Ann M. Martin
(also available in Graphic novel)
I love these! Very good and very much recommended. They are very
relatable.
强烈推荐。很有共鸣。
(心一最喜欢这类关于女孩子人际关系、友谊的书。)
-Front Desk by Kelly Yang
About poor Chinese immigrants living in America.
关于中国移民在美国的生活。
-The house on Mango street by Sandra Cisneros
Very good and full of stories.
很好,很多小故事。
《芒果街的小屋》是经典小说。几年前我向心一推荐,心一不读,近来才读,大加欣赏。
-Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Very good, but with enormous words and slightly old english.
-The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson