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The Secret Diaries of Cao Cao published by New Century Publishing House is a diary novel with excellent writing and illustrations which provides a pleasant reading experience for the readers. The illustrations contain many vivid hand-drawn pictures and the stories are close to life and were written in a humorous style.
The diary-keeper is Cao Cao， who is a little boy in the fourth grade of primary school. His diary has noted down all the novel， interesting， pleasant or unpleasant and annoying things that he has experienced， and his teachers， classmates， parents and other relatives were also regularly involved in his diary. Cao Cao had kept his diary as a secret， which he used to make it appear as an extracurricular reading and hide it in his drawer. But he never locked his drawer， as he believes the most dangerous place is also the safest place. He hoped that his diary could be noticed by a publisher and introduced to all his contemporaries. What is this diary about indeed？ What’s on the mind of a boy who is only 10 years’ old？ Let’s take this question and have a look at his book.
Cao Cao is a naughty boy. One day he wanted to make a trick with his desk-mate， so he placed a big sticker on the chair of his desk-mate and waited for it sticking to his class-mate and his class-mate being laughed at. However， his mistake undid his wishful thinking – he had put the glutinous side towards the chair， so it had stuck to the chair already… and he was criticized by his teacher as a result. Cao Cao is a brave boy. E would stand out when seeing some elder students bullying his girl classmates， even though he’s a little afraid of them himself. Cao Cao is a boy who has filial piety. He had learned cooking porridge for his mother and crushed and mixed the bitter pills with juice when she’s ill. Cao Cao is a smart boy. He drew a map leading to the vegetable stall that one of his classmate’s mother owned and encouraged his mother， grandmother and anti to purchase vegetables there in order to help solve the living difficulties of his classmate’s family. Cao Cao is also a boy who learns hard. Although he did not like the extracurricular coursed that his parents had registered for him， he would also be willing to learn if their teaching methods are interesting… The experiences of Cao Cao may also happen to other boys of his age， and he’s just collected them and edited them into an appealing diary book.
Cao Cao’s diary is full of a child’s imagination. His classmate， Ha Haha， pretended to have a coma while doing the rehearsal of flower-performance team on the playground of school， thinking that his insurance company would give his mother a large number of compensation with which he could afford a helicopter. The teacher for the course of science told them the Earth has been over-developed by human beings and the environment has been seriously destroyed， and then Cao Cao began to worry about whether the small rabbit in school would become extinct one day like dinosaurs. Cao Cao’s mother told him only the female mosquito bites， so he decided to prove it without using the mosquito set… All those stories are not made up deliberately， but for the true understanding of the children – they’re curious of the world without knowing much about it， and they just tries understanding it using their own experience. They may sometimes seem unimaginable and amusing to the adults， while it’s full of children’s purity and innocence that should be valued. In addition， this diary is new in its form. Each journal has one or two hand-drawn cartoons， which becomes a very important part of the diary. The author has designed a vivid image for each character in his diary： Cao Cao wearing a sun hat askew， chubby Ha Zhihui， Zhou Daiang with an explosive haircut... The characters are fleshed under the description of the author. These comics have not only outlined the core content of the diary， but also made vivid complement for the dairy and enhanced its appealingness.
The language of The Secret Diaries of Cao Cao is concise and vivid which is close to the spoken language， as if it’s a ten-year-old child gushing about the people and things that he’s encountered in front of you； popular vocabulary appear sometimes in the books， which provides a touch of modern life. It’s an easy-reading and interesting extracurricular reading close to the lives of children， which will be appealing to children or elder readers who like children's literature.
The diary-keeper is Cao Cao， who is a little boy in the fourth grade of primary school. His diary has noted down all the novel， interesting， pleasant or unpleasant and annoying things that he has experienced， and his teachers， classmates， parents and other relatives were also regularly involved in his diary. Cao Cao had kept his diary as a secret， which he used to make it appear as an extracurricular reading and hide it in his drawer. But he never locked his drawer， as he believes the most dangerous place is also the safest place. He hoped that his diary could be noticed by a publisher and introduced to all his contemporaries. What is this diary about indeed？ What’s on the mind of a boy who is only 10 years’ old？ Let’s take this question and have a look at his book.
Cao Cao is a naughty boy. One day he wanted to make a trick with his desk-mate， so he placed a big sticker on the chair of his desk-mate and waited for it sticking to his class-mate and his class-mate being laughed at. However， his mistake undid his wishful thinking – he had put the glutinous side towards the chair， so it had stuck to the chair already… and he was criticized by his teacher as a result. Cao Cao is a brave boy. E would stand out when seeing some elder students bullying his girl classmates， even though he’s a little afraid of them himself. Cao Cao is a boy who has filial piety. He had learned cooking porridge for his mother and crushed and mixed the bitter pills with juice when she’s ill. Cao Cao is a smart boy. He drew a map leading to the vegetable stall that one of his classmate’s mother owned and encouraged his mother， grandmother and anti to purchase vegetables there in order to help solve the living difficulties of his classmate’s family. Cao Cao is also a boy who learns hard. Although he did not like the extracurricular coursed that his parents had registered for him， he would also be willing to learn if their teaching methods are interesting… The experiences of Cao Cao may also happen to other boys of his age， and he’s just collected them and edited them into an appealing diary book.
Cao Cao’s diary is full of a child’s imagination. His classmate， Ha Haha， pretended to have a coma while doing the rehearsal of flower-performance team on the playground of school， thinking that his insurance company would give his mother a large number of compensation with which he could afford a helicopter. The teacher for the course of science told them the Earth has been over-developed by human beings and the environment has been seriously destroyed， and then Cao Cao began to worry about whether the small rabbit in school would become extinct one day like dinosaurs. Cao Cao’s mother told him only the female mosquito bites， so he decided to prove it without using the mosquito set… All those stories are not made up deliberately， but for the true understanding of the children – they’re curious of the world without knowing much about it， and they just tries understanding it using their own experience. They may sometimes seem unimaginable and amusing to the adults， while it’s full of children’s purity and innocence that should be valued. In addition， this diary is new in its form. Each journal has one or two hand-drawn cartoons， which becomes a very important part of the diary. The author has designed a vivid image for each character in his diary： Cao Cao wearing a sun hat askew， chubby Ha Zhihui， Zhou Daiang with an explosive haircut... The characters are fleshed under the description of the author. These comics have not only outlined the core content of the diary， but also made vivid complement for the dairy and enhanced its appealingness.
The language of The Secret Diaries of Cao Cao is concise and vivid which is close to the spoken language， as if it’s a ten-year-old child gushing about the people and things that he’s encountered in front of you； popular vocabulary appear sometimes in the books， which provides a touch of modern life. It’s an easy-reading and interesting extracurricular reading close to the lives of children， which will be appealing to children or elder readers who like children's literature.