英语演讲稿-I-Love-Reading.doc

I Love Reading

1. Yang Hongying, my favorite writer
My favorite writer is Yang Hongying. Yang Hongying is now one of the best-selling writer in China, and also perhaps the most popular writer among Chinese children. Ask any group of children and they will tell you about these characters and their special stories. Ma Xiaotiao in Naughty Boy Ma Xiaotiao, the laughing cat in The Diary of the Laughing Cat Series, the long-tongued girl Lu Manman… These are all well-known characters created by Yang Hongying. Due to her success and popularity among young Chinese readers, Yang Hongying is frequently referred to as China's J.K. Rowling.
Yang Hongying was a teacher and an editor at a children's literary magazine. Her experience with children has given her a lot of inspirations to her writing. In fact, it was her daughter who inspired her to write Girl's Diary, the novel that first brought her fame. Ms. Yang maintains her success with mischievous Ma Xiaotiao series and the Smiling Cat series. Yang Hongying's best-selling children's works are rapidly finding a foreign audience. Now her books are available in Chinese, English, French, German, Korean and Japanese.

2. Yang Hongying, children’s writer
Yang Hongying has always longed to be a creator of child wonderment. She started writing children's stories in 1981 when she was 19 years old, a year after her taking job as a primary school teacher. Young Yang Hongying was very good with children. She knew full well how to catch children's hearts. To get students' attention in her classes, she often told them interesting fairytales that she had made up.
"It seems I was born a good story teller and every kid is fascinated by me. They surrounded me everyday begging for more stories," she recalled. Her stories vividly describe children’s life. The stories are so real that we children readers find they are just happening in our life. I really admire Ms Yang, because she knows us so well and gives us a lot of warmth and pleasure through her stories. More importantly, I can always learn something from her books.
I think Ms Yang is a really talented person. I hope one day I can write wonderful stories as well.

3. Main Characters in The Diary of the Laughing Cat – The Green Dog Villa
The laughing cat: The laughing cat expresses his feeling through all kinds of laughs. He can make smiles, wild laughs, scornful smiles, hypocritical smiles, bitter smiles, and foxy smiles. He is a quite insightful cat. He believes that attitude decides everything. Besides, he often watches people’s expressions and actions, and can understand human language.
The tiger-furred cat: The tiger-furred cat is free from worldly cares, and has her own beliefs and principles. She is not only very beautiful and elegant, but also very tender and considerate. She and the laughing cat have experienced a lot of adventures and hardships together. Finally, they two live happily together and give birth to four baby cats.
The naughty boy Ma Xiaotiao: Ma Xiaotiao is typically considered the troublemaker in class. He was born jumping. This inspired his father, a toy designer, to make a jumping doll that became a sensation all over the world. He is playful, will only do what he likes and is unwilling to study, which gets him into trouble easily with his form teacher （班主任） and the class monitor. He is always slightly out of step with the behavior of others, which is the essence of his appeal. Sometimes he’s right, sometimes he’s wrong, but he’s always interesting. He is generally a very sociable person; he is honest, trustworthy, helpful, and has a avid imagination. Besides, he loves animals very much. He is very afraid of the laughing cat’s sneers.
Little White: Little White is an elegant male poodle with attractive black, round eyes, golden long-hair ears, and a black bow tie in his neck. In the wedding of the laughing cat and the tiger-furred cat, Dibaotian, a female dog first met him. Since then, she couldn’t forget him, and has been looking for him.
The sculptor: The sculptor is a selfish artist. In order to finish 100 green dog sculptures and pursue his own artistic personality, he caught 100 dogs and dyed their hair green. What’s more, he gave surgeries to these dogs and put steel wire into their ears so that their ears could stand up. These dogs’ freedom and happiness were taken away by this cruel man.

4. The plot of The Diary of the Laughing Cat – The Green Dog Villa
Little White was curiously missing. The Ball-Like Mouse led the Laughing Cat and Dibaotian to a villa, where Little White was said to be kept. In the villa, they saw many dogs whose hair was dyed green. Then, Dibaotian was also missing. The Ball-Like Mouse and the Laughing Cat found a scaring truth: the villa’s owner, a sculptor, was very creepy that he wanted to catch 100 dogs in order to finish 100 green dog sculptures. It was him who dyed the dogs’ hair and put steel wire to the dogs’ ears to make their ears stand up. All of these gave the dogs unspeakable pains.
By coincidence, the Ball-Like Mouse drank a bottle of wine which gave him magic power. After drinking the wine, he could easily surmount the wall. He went into the villa and saved all the suffering dogs.

5. After reading the book
Ms Yang Hongying is my favorite writer, and The Laughing Cat Series are my favorite books, because the stories in them are very intersing. So one day, when I saw the latest issue of the series, The Green Dog Villa, in a bookstore, I bought it without hesitation.
After reading the book from cover to cover, I have mixed feelings.
When I read the part that the dogs were all saved, I felt very happy and moved. The Laughing Cat, the Ball-Like Mouse, Dibaotian and other friends were very united. They spared no effort to save the dogs. I think they all have beautiful minds.
On the contrary, the sculptor was so cruel and selfish. I don’t think he deserves the title of an artist. The harm he has done to the dogs, both physically and spiritually, is incurable. Maybe he is pursuing arts, but he pays no respect to the dogs’ life and dignity. He was desperate for fame, but abandoned his conscience.

6. The dignity of animals
After reading the book, I have though a lot about the way human beings treat animals. The sculpture actually represents many people who cruelly treat animals. Some people do everything they want to do to animals. I thought about the horrible stories of people maltreating cats, teasing monkeys and so on. These people pay no attention to the feeling of animals.
Do people really have the right to be superior to animals? I don’t think so. Human beings are animals essentially, ascending from monkeys. Then what’s the difference between human beings and animals? Animals are not the tools or toys of humans, but should be treated as friends.

7. Thinking for others
Ms. Yang’s books can always guide my growth. The Green Dog Villa makes me realize the importance of being considerate to others. I will not be a person like the sculptor, who is so selfish and think little of the dogs’ happiness. I think if we care more about others’ feelings, a lot of tragedies will not happen. Just as Confucious says, “Don't do unto others what you don't want others do unto you.”

8. The joy of reading
I’m nuts about reading. It’s amazing to lose myself into a whole new world created by the author. Reading has done a lot of good to me.
First, reading helps me learn more knowledge. The other day, when my mother and I were out for a walk, we saw many earthworms in the road of a park. My mother was quite started and scared, but I was not afraid at all and I even comforted my mom. You know what? I have read in a book that after a heavy rain, earthworms will get out of the soil to breathe. At that time, there had been a rain several hours earlier. I am interested in a lot of things, such as history, science, etc. Reading books is just like traveling in a sea of knowledge. Every time when I read a book, I am fascinated by the interesting stories and knowledge in it.
Second, reading fills my spare time and keeps me from being bored. After I finish my homework in the weekend, I often read a book. Reading can always give me pleasure. I forget when I like reading in order to learn as much knowledge as possible.
Third, books can take me to places I never even dreamed about. The world created by books is so amazing. My horizon is greatly widened through reading.

9. Why am I called a bookworm?
Reading book is my biggest hobby. I can’t remember when my classmates began to call me a bookworm. Then this became my nick name, and my mom, my dad and my friends sometimes also call me in this way. I started to read when I was only four years old. Since then, I have had a habit to read books whenever I have spare time. At home, I have two bookshelves full of books. There are also books on my desk and even on the floor. I have to give some of the books to my cousin to make room for new books. My room won’t be big enough, if I keep all of them. I can say my room is a room of book, and I am a little ‘worm’ sitting inside it

10. Do you like the nick-name (being called a bookworm)?
I am a ferocious reader. I can get a lot of joy from reading. Reading not only gives me more knowledge, provides me a lot of perspectives, but also opens a window to another beautiful world in the book. People cannot live without food. For me, life will be boring without reading books.
However, there are also some disadvantages. If I spend all my time to read, there will be less time to do exercises. Spending too much time to read will also harm my eyes. As a bookworm, I often read books in the moving cars. This is very harmful to my eyes.
Anyway, despite the disadvantages, I like to be a bookworm.

11. What other kinds of books do you like?
I like detective stories. The detective stories are so intriguing. I try my best to finish the book fast in order to know what has happened until the end. I enjoy a storyline that is full of intrigue and suspense. I feel very excited and intrigued when reading it.
I also like cartoons. I believe cartoons are a special form of art. For example, the Japanese cartoons that are commonly seen in China have excellent illustrations and plots. I really appreciate them.

12. Do you think that e-book will replace traditional book?
I don't think traditional books will ever be completely replaced. In the next couple of decades e-books will probably boom in sales and popularity.
However, schools will probably continue to use traditional books because of the relative cheapness compared to having to buy a device to read the books with as well as the e-books for their students.
Also, many book lovers would probably be reluctant to do a complete switch to e-books since reading a book electronically takes all of the fun out of reading it. Nothing can give you that same feeling when you're under your favorite tree reading a paperback, and you bookmark it, you flip it and have somebody read it with you. It's just not the same holding an electronic device.