About the author

Public information about Mu Zi is limited, and details of her identity and life are not clearly recorded. Judging from the seven works held in the collection, her writing spans such categories as foreign literature, social sciences, and classic works, combining translation with compilation. Her representative works include Through the Looking-Glass, Platero and I, The Strange Old Man (Essential Edition), A Russian Calendar of Nature: "A Harmony of Man and Nature" in the Forests of Northern Russia, Water Drops in the Forest, A Happy Life with Dogs, and Crazy Cat and Naughty Mouse. These works mostly center on nature, animals, and children's literature, involving Russian forest writing and the translation of classic fairy tales. Warm and approachable in subject matter, they balance knowledge with readability and suit young readers as well as general readers.

Written (7)

Rating 4.3★ Alice's Adventures in the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll / 穆紫 Tianjin Education Press · 2023 Through the Looking-Glass tells the story of a little girl named Alice who enters a world inside a mirror and encounters all manner of strange and fan… Rating 4.2★ Little Silver, My Lovable Simple Donkey 希梅内斯 / 穆紫 Northern China Women & Children Publishing House · 2023 The sincere, inseparable bond between Jiménez and a donkey (Platero): Platero is the author's brother, friend, or child, and they are utterly intimate… Rating 4.1★ The Eccentric Old Man (Essential Edition) 奥斯卡·雅各布生 / 穆紫 Northern China Women & Children Publishing House · 2023 There is an old man, short of stature and plain of face, whose expression seldom changes and who never speaks. Three unruly hairs sprout from his bald… Rating 4.0★ The Calendar of Nature: The 'Song of Harmony Between Man and Nature' in the Northern Forests of Russia 普里什文 / 穆紫 Northern China Women & Children Publishing House · 2023 Divided into the chapters of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, Nature's Calendar records Prishvin's journeys deep into the ancient forests of northe… Rating 4.0★ Drops of Water in the Forest 普里什文 / 穆紫 Tianjin Education Press · 2023 This prose-poem cycle, one of the crowning achievements of Prishvin's career, leads us into a forest kingdom and vividly reveals its beauty and richne… Rating 3.9★ A Happy Life with Dogs [美]哈罗德·塔克·韦伯斯特 / 穆紫 Northern China Women & Children Publishing House · 2023 Dogs are man's best friend. Though they cannot express their feelings in words, they still bring people endless joy. In this comic book you will meet … Rating 3.5★ The Crazy Cat and the Naughty Mouse [美]乔治·海雷曼 / 穆紫 Northern China Women & Children Publishing House · 2021 A comic strip starring a cat and a mouse. The cat is plain, simple-minded, and carefree, often doing crazy things, and is therefore called "Crazy Cat"…

Publishers

Northern China Women & Children Publishing HouseTianjin Education Press