Above the Pond, Under the Pond 池上池下
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2017-06-15
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By Chiu, Cheng-Tsung
The author who was nominated in the 2006 Bologna Children's Bookfair-Illustrator exhibition (nonfiction category).
The winner of the first Feng Zikai Picture Book Award.
A must-read for the little ecologists which portrays the locally grown pond ecology of Taiwan, with the appendix of dragonfly observation records and the explanation of different species.
As spring fades away, summer arrives, autumn gone and winter comes, the common change of different seasons is interrupted by a surprising visitor -- a little white heron breaks the silence of time and connects the life story above the pond and the life story under the pond. When no one notices, a little egg under the pond has secretly unfolds the life tracks of an Anax panybeus. The readers can see its transmutation, eclosion, flying, copulation, and even its death… Chiu Chen-Tsung took the life of a dragonfly to be the master narrative of the book, creating a little ecological world which worths repeated probing for the readers. The book contains realistic and delicate illustration and beautifully written text. It is the outcome of Chiu's long-time dragonfly observation work. His camera-like eyes capture the life of the different species of insects around the pond. This book thus amazingly illustrates the moving outline of dragonflies and varied changes and light in our lives, recording the wonderful ecology "above the pond, under the pond".
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About Chiu, Cheng-Tsung
Chiu was born in 1954. After graduating from the photography school in Tokyo, Japan, Chiu went back to Taiwan to build up Red Tomato Publishing House and started to create picture books based on local materials. His works won numerous awards in Taiwan, including the recommendation best children's book of the Tripod Award, the best children’s/young people's book in the science category of the Tripod Award, the Feng Zikai Picture Book Award, the Annual Best Ten Children's Book Award of the China Times, and he was also nominated in the Bologna Children's Bookfair-Illustrator exhibition in the nonfiction category in 2000 and 2006.
In addition, his works used to travel to "The National Zoo Collection Gallery Exhibition" in Munich, Germany; "The Municipal Botanical Garden Exhibition" in Munich, Germany; and "The Biological Museum Exhibition" in Hamburg, Germany, but he has never been to Germany.
Though he went through quite a lot of setbacks, he made up his mind to devote his whole life depicting life and nature after forty years old. Now he remains curious to the world of the insects just like every child.
His works include: Barefoot Daddy; Butterflies; To Raise the Insects; Insects Family; Big Holes, Small Holes; Our Forest; See! Dragonfly!; Let's Go Fishing; and Have you Fallen Asleep?... etc.
