五四运动给儿童的读书生活带来一阵清风。几个大出版公司先后开始出版儿童读物,例如商务印书馆的《儿童世界》、《少年杂志》,中华书局的《小朋友》等。那时我还在河南的省城开封上小学。我要求我的祖父给我订一份《小朋友》。以后几年间,我经常收到从上海寄来的这份刊物。一见到它那印刷美观的邮袋,我就感到很大的愉快。也就是从这份刊物上,我最初读到了有名的外国文学作品《安乐王子》和《汤姆叔叔的小屋》。当然都是易于为孩子们理解的文字平易的改写本,然而,它们不但扩展了我的精神世界,也诱发了我对文学的不断增长的兴趣。三十年代是中国思想领域十分活跃、新文化日渐丰富、文学刊 The May 4th Movement brought a breeze to children’s reading life. Several large publishing companies have started to publish children’s books, such as Children’s World at the Commercial Press, Teen Magazine, Zhonghua Book Company’s Children. At that time, I was still in primary school in Kaifeng, Henan Province’s capital city. I asked my grandfather to give me a “friend”. In the next few years, I often receive this publication from Shanghai. I was very happy when I saw the beautifully printed pouch. That is, from this publication, I first read the famous foreign literary works Prince Charming and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Of course, they are all easy-to-read, easy-to-understand texts that children understand. However, they not only expand my spiritual world, but they also induce my growing interest in literature. The thirties are very active in the field of Chinese thought, new culture is increasingly rich, literary magazine