蛤蟆先生一向爱笑爱闹，如今却一反常态地郁郁寡欢，他一个人躲在屋里，连起床梳洗的力气都没有。朋友们非常担心他，建议他去做心理咨询。在10次心理咨询中，蛤蟆在咨询师苍鹭的带领下，勇敢地探索了自己的内心世界，也逐渐找回了信心与希望……这并不是一本写给孩子看的书，而是一本非常有深度的心理疗愈读物。知名心理学家李松蔚说：“这本书看起来像童话，其实具有可怕的专业度。”

作者罗伯特·戴博德（Robert de Board），毕业于剑桥大学赛尔文学院，曾任教于英国亨利商学院，是一位经验丰富的心理学研究者和临床实践者。他的两本专业著作《咨询技巧》和《组织的心理分析》都是英国畅销的心理学类教科书。本书是他最著名、最畅销的一本大众心理学著作。

《活着》讲述了农村人福贵悲惨的人生遭遇。福贵本是个阔少爷，可他嗜赌如命，终于赌光了家业，他的父亲被他活活气死，母亲则在穷困中患了重病去世，后来他的妻子、儿女和孙子相继死去，最后只剩福贵和一头老牛相依为命，但老人依旧活着，仿佛比往日更加洒脱与坚强。

《活着》讲述了人如何去承受巨大的苦难；讲述了眼泪的宽广和丰富；讲述了绝望的不存在；讲述了人是为了活着本身而活着的，而不是为了活着之外的任何事物而活着。

《活着》荣获意大利格林扎纳•卡佛文学奖最高奖项（1998年）、台湾《中国时报》10本好书奖（1994年）、香港“博益”15本好书奖（1994年）、第三届世界华文“冰心文学奖”（2002年），入选香港《亚洲周刊》评选的“20世纪中文小说百年百强”、中国百位批评家和文学编辑评选的“20世纪90年代最有影响的10部作品。同名电影获戛纳国际电影节评审团大奖。

“教育意味着获得不同的视角，理解不同的人、经历和历史。如果人们受过教育，他们应该多听，少说，对差异满怀激情，热爱那些不同于他们的想法。”——塔拉·韦斯特弗在《福布斯杂志》访谈中如是说。

这是一部新人处女作，上市第一周即登上《纽约时报》图书排行榜。作者Tara Westover是一个17岁前从未上过学的女孩，她如何成为剑桥大学博士？我们要背叛多少曾经，才能找到真正的自我？作者塔拉·韦斯特弗说：你可以用很多说法来称呼这个崭新的自我：转型，蜕变，虚伪，背叛。而我称之为：教育。

假如你变成了一只动物，你可能会遭遇这样的生活：未出生时，就被埋在妈妈的便便里；刚出生时，就被亲爹扔到垃圾堆里；成长之中，亲妈三天两头给你喂她的呕吐物；老公长不大，还要白养他一辈子……

这本书的作者李剑龙，是Sheldon科学漫画工作室创始人,理论物理学博士,科普作家。在这本书中李剑龙先生用幽默有趣的漫画形式，将上百种动物的“生活成长”知识进行了解读，让你笑得脸部抽筋儿的同时，瞬间也增长了诸多动物小知识。这本书还会让你学到很多可能不太知道的动物小秘密！

如果城市生物化身为小剧场的主角，来一场脱口秀或小剧目……直白高冷的海鸥、腹黑霸道的乌鸦、囤物成瘾的松鼠、迷之自信的大鹅、严重社恐的猫头鹰……当它们齐齐化身“段子手”和“哲学家”，一定会让你忍俊不禁外加感慨良多。

作者Joshua Barkman是加拿大艺术家，凭一张“去码头整点薯条”的海鸥漫画火爆全球。著名观鸟者，深爱野性自然的同时，也不忘关注常被忽视的城市动物。其以专业写实的画风，创新搞笑的动物微表情，幽默哲理的对白，生动呈现出一个与人类社会共通的，神秘、有趣、深刻的动物社会。

五年级是马克一生中最糟糕的一年。他在体育课上晕头转向，数学对他来说太难了，学校的午餐太糟糕了，班级实地考察因为他不会游泳而被破坏了。但五年级最可怕的事情是什么？肯尼·威廉姆森，班级恶霸，自称“丛林之王”。

当马克的母亲告诉他，他的叔叔杰克要来这里住一整个夏天时，马克等不及了！因为杰克叔叔是真正的超级酷海豹突击队员。而杰克叔叔有个计划：他要把马克变成一个战士。马克能在秋季开学前把自己变成一名战士吗？最终他自己能站起来对抗丛林之王吗？

《勇士之路》是由《纽约时报》畅销书作者、退休海军海豹突击队员约科·威林克（Jocko Willink）撰写的一本新的插图章节书。本书也是2022年大粤区国际学校英语阅读擂台赛（Battle Of the Books）小学段比赛书目之一。

汉声中国童话系列是由汉声杂志社深入民间，从浩如烟海的中国民间文化中，以童趣为标准，发掘、精选出这些故事，再以简单、浅显、亲切的文字，融入丰富的想象力编写而成。

汉声从传统年画、皮影、刺绣、壁画、雕塑石刻中汲取技法，以毛笔、宣纸细细描绘，将故事中最精彩的部分化为一幅幅鲜活灵动，具有传统风味的图画，让孩子能在阅读精彩故事之际，了解中华民间美术的精髓。按照传统农历岁时，每天一则故事，每月一本，全套12本，共362个故事，涵盖节日传说、民间故事、神话故事、历史故事、事物起源故事、科学故事等。

阅读是不是只能拿起一本书从第一页开始读，一页一页读到最后？要不要尝试一下以空间、时间、角色为线索的阅读方式？

国际安徒生奖得主、德国国宝级童书作家Rotraut Susanne Berner(罗特劳特•苏珊娜•贝尔纳) 虚构了一个富有活泼泼生活气息又极具诗意魅力的魏姆林根小镇。四季时光系列共5 册，分别是《寒冬》《暖春》《盛夏》《凉秋》《月夜》，每册都展现了魏姆林根小镇7 个代表性地点的人物、动物和事物，你会发现相同的角色在不同的场景和季节里延续着各自的故事。

本期寒假书单派送完毕！希望同学们能够趁寒假时间多点阅读，进行自我提升。下一次的阅读之星，会是你吗？

Mr. Toad has always liked to laugh and play, but now he is uncharacteristically unhappy. Friends were very worried about him and advised him to go to counselling. In 10 psychological consultations, Toad, under the leadership of the consultant Heron, bravely explored his inner world, and gradually regained his confidence and hope... This is not a book written for children, but A very in-depth psychotherapy book. 

The author, Robert de Board, graduated from Selvin College, Cambridge University, taught at Henley Business School, UK, and is an experienced psychological researcher and clinical practitioner. His two professional books, Counseling Skills and Psychoanalysis of Organizations, are among the best-selling psychology textbooks in the UK. This book is his most famous and best-selling book on popular psychology. 

"To Live" tells the tragic life experience of the rural people Fugui. Fugui was originally a rich young man, but he was addicted to gambling, and finally gambled away his family fortune. His father was mad at him and soon died, and his mother died of a serious illness in poverty. Later, his wife, children and grandsons died one after another. In the end, only Fugui and an old cow depended on each other for life, but the old man was still alive as if he was more free and easy and stronger than before. 

"To Live" tells how people endure great suffering; it tells about the breadth and abundance of tears; it tells about the non-existence of despair; it tells about people who live for the sake of living itself, not for anything other than living. 

"Alive" won the top prize of the Italian Grinzana Carver Literary Award (1998), Taiwan's "China Times" 10 Best Books Award (1994), Hong Kong's "Bo Yi" 15 Best Books Award (1994), No. Three World Chinese "Bingxin Literature Award" (2002), selected as "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" selected by Hong Kong "Asia Weekly", "Most Influential in the 1990s" selected by 100 Chinese critics and literary editors 10 works. The film of the same name won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.

"Education means gaining a different perspective, understanding different people, experiences and histories. If people are educated, they should listen more and speak less, be passionate about differences, and love ideas that are different from them." - Tara Westover said in an interview with Forbes Magazine. 

It's a rookie debut, and it topped the New York Times book list in its first week of release. Author Tara Westover, a girl who never went to school until she was 17, how did she become a Cambridge PhD? How much do we have to betray before we can find our true selves? Author Tara Westover says: You can call this new self in many ways: transformation, transformation, hypocrisy, betrayal. And I call it: education. 

The author of this book, Li Jianlong, is the founder of Sheldon Science Comics Studio, a PhD. in theoretical physics, and a popular science writer. In this book, Mr Li Jianlong interprets the "life growth" knowledge of hundreds of animals in the form of humorous and interesting comics, which makes your face cramp while laughing, and instantly increases a lot of animal knowledge. This book will also let you learn a lot of animal secrets that you may not know!

Author Joshua Barkman is a Canadian artist who became a global hit with a seagull cartoon of "Go to the dock to order french fries." A famous bird watcher who loves wild nature, he also pays attention to the often-overlooked urban animals. With a professional and realistic painting style, innovative and funny animal micro-expressions, and humorous philosophical dialogue, it vividly presents a mysterious, interesting and profound animal society that is common to human society.

Fifth grade was the worst year of Mark's life. He gets dizzy in gym class, math is too hard for him, school lunches suck, class field trips are ruined because he can't swim. But what's the scariest thing is about Kenny Williamson, the class bully, self-proclaimed "King of the Jungle". 

When Mark's mother told him that his uncle Jack was coming to live here all summer, Mark couldn't wait! Because Uncle Jack is the real super cool SEAL. And Uncle Jack has a plan: He's going to turn Mark into a warrior. Can Mark turn himself into a warrior before school starts in the fall? Can he finally stand up to the king of the jungle himself? 

The Warrior's Road is a new illustrated chapter book by New York Times bestselling author and retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink. This book is also one of the books for the primary level competition of the 2022 Greater Guangdong International School English Reading Competition (Battle Of the Books).

The Hansheng Chinese Fairy Tales series is conducted by Hansheng Magazine, which explores and selects these stories from the vast Chinese folk culture and takes childishness as the standard, and then integrates rich imagination with simple and friendly words. 

Hansheng draws techniques from traditional New Year pictures, shadow puppets, embroidery, murals, sculptures and stone carvings, and uses brushes and rice paper to describe them in detail, turning the most exciting parts of the story into vivid and traditional pictures. While reading wonderful stories, you can understand the essence of Chinese folk art. According to the traditional lunar year, there is one story per day, one per month, and a full set of 12 books, with a total of 362 stories, covering festival legends, folk stories, mythical stories, historical stories, origin stories, scientific stories, etc. 

Is it possible to just pick up a book and start reading from the first page and read page by page to the end? Would you like to try a way of reading that uses space, time, and roles as clues? 

Rotraut Susanne Berner, the winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Prize and a German national treasure of children's books, has created a fictional town of Weimlingen, which is full of lively life and poetic charm. The Four Seasons Time series consists of 5 volumes, namely "Bitter Winter", "Warm Spring", "Midsummer", "Cool Autumn" and "Moon Night". You'll find the same characters continuing their stories in different scenes and seasons. 

We hope that students can take advantage of the winter holiday to read more and improve themselves. The next reading star, will it be you?