A Different Birthday
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Preschoolers aged 3–6 who enjoy role-play and parent-child games
- Young parents who want to strengthen interaction through shared reading
- Families looking for a birthday-themed picture book as a gift
- Teachers at kindergartens or early-education centers for parent-child activity classes
Not a good fit for
- Children in the upper primary grades who can already read longer stories independently
- Parents expecting popular-science content or a clear educational theme
- Children who prefer listening quietly to a story and dislike physical interaction
Reading tips
- Before reading, agree with your child: when the story says "turn into a pirate ship," the parent really carries the child around on their back.
- On each page, let your child guess "what will Mum and Dad turn into this time?" before revealing the answer.
- When you finish, ask your child "what else would you like Mum and Dad to turn into?" and act it out together.
- Best read around a birthday; you can pair it with family photos and talk about the day your child was born.
About the publisher
Jieli Publishing House is a publisher focusing on young people's reading, with a distinctive strength in making classical literature and classic works accessible to a broad readership. Its catalogue contains 224 titles, with common categories including classical literature, classic works, history books and science fiction. Representative books include the Chinese classics series such as Dream of the Red Chamber: An Appreciation Edition, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West, illustrated editions of foreign classics such as Eugénie Grandet and Around the World in Eighty Days, and history titles such as Records of the Grand Historian: An Appreciation Edition. Its authors and editors include classical writers Cao Xueqin, Gao E, Luo Guanzhong and Wu Cheng'en, editors Zhao Huaxia, Wang Yiqing and Chen Xiaohui, and foreign writers such as Balzac. The press uses appreciation and illustrated editions to lower the threshold for reading classics, serving both exam-related and extracurricular reading needs; as public information is limited, other publishing features are not discussed here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 不一样的生日（一）
- 不一样的生日（二）
- 不一样的生日（三）
- 不一样的生日（四）
- 不一样的生日（五）
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About the author
Thomas Taylor is an author about whom limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name have not been clearly recorded. According to the library's holdings, he has eight works, including Barbazu's Dream, Barbapapa Builds a Park, The Mysterious Grand Prize, Discovering the Secret of Color Change, The Cave of the Original Barbapapas, A Different Birthday, Who Is the Skiing Champion?, and The Search for the Lost Book, which are often classified under art. The titles suggest that his writing mainly revolves around characters from the Barbapapa series and leans toward children's stories and picture books, often using everyday situations such as family, adventure, holidays, sports, and searching as narrative threads. The plots are light and imaginative, suitable for parent-child reading and younger readers. Although biographical information about the author is very limited, his works have a certain recognizability in children's reading, attracting young readers through vivid characters and lively storytelling and guiding them to enjoy exploration and discovery within the stories.
Alice Taylor is a French children's book author and the daughter of Druis Taylor and Annette Tison, the creators of the Barbapapa characters. After her father's death in 2015, she and her brother Thomas Taylor carried on the Barbapapa creative legacy as second-generation creators, sustaining the vitality of this classic series. Eight of her works are held in the collection, including Barbazoo's Dream, Barbapapa Builds a Park, The Mysterious Grand Prize, Discovering the Secret of Color Change, The Cave of the Original Barbapapas, A Different Birthday, Who Is the Ski Champion?, and Searching for the Lost Book. Most are new entries in the Barbapapa animated story series, published in Chinese by Jieli Publishing House. Her works are commonly categorized under art. Her writing centers on the Barbapapa family, accompanying children with wondrous imagination, a warm family atmosphere, and lighthearted humor; because public information is limited, details of her personal life remain incomplete.
Xie Fengbei is a Chinese translator and researcher of French culture. She studied in France and worked as a rights manager in the International Cooperation Department of Jieli Publishing House. In 2009, she helped bring the simplified Chinese edition of the Barbapapa series to China, and she is the Chinese translator of that series as well as of new animated storybooks by Thomas Taylor and Alice Taylor. Her translations also include the Panti series. The library holds eight related works, including Barbazoo's Dream, Barbapapa Builds a Park, The Mysterious Grand Prize, Discovering the Secret of Color Change, The Cave of the Original Barbapapas, A Different Birthday, Who Is the Ski Champion?, and Searching for the Lost Book, commonly classified under art. These works are mostly children's picture stories about the whimsical ideas and everyday adventures of the Barbapapa family, lighthearted and full of imagination and childlike charm. Her graceful translations preserve the rhythm and humor of the originals, allowing Chinese readers to approach the narrative style of French picture books naturally. Public information is limited, and her birth and death years and detailed biography are not recorded.
