Darian ’29 is the sort of kid who always captures his new experiences in a drawing. Last year, when Darian spent Christmas with his family in his home country of Macedonia for the first time, he of course started drawing and writing about everything he saw and did. When his mother couldn’t find any picture books about Christmas traditions in Macedonia, they realized that Darian’s original illustrations and stories could be just that. This year, Lucky Coin became Darian’s first published story. "I like to tell people about Macedonia so they know more about my country," he said. "By making the book, I learned that I needed to think carefully about what I was writing, what words I used, and I needed to rewrite it until it was good."

上海美國學(xué)校二年級學(xué)生Darian總是喜歡將自己的新體驗(yàn)畫下來。去年，當(dāng)Darian第一次與家人回到他的祖國馬其頓過圣誕時，他將自己的見聞和經(jīng)歷畫了下來，寫了下來。當(dāng)時，他母親沒找到關(guān)于馬其頓圣誕傳統(tǒng)的任何圖畫書，于是Darian的原創(chuàng)插畫和故事就派上了用場。今年，《Lucky Coin》成為了Darian出版的第一本書。他表示：“我想向人們介紹馬其頓，讓他們能夠更加了解我的祖國。在創(chuàng)作這本書的過程中，我意識到，自己需要對創(chuàng)作的內(nèi)容仔細(xì)斟酌，用好每個詞。我需要不斷改寫以達(dá)到最佳效果。”

Lucky Coin is available for purchase this holiday season in our Eagle Shop on the Pudong campus. In the meantime, Darian has moved onto fiction and has written his second book about a parrot named Paco…

《Lucky Coin》在這個節(jié)日季入駐了我們浦東校區(qū)的“雄鷹商店”。現(xiàn)在，Darian開始創(chuàng)作小說，他的第二本書講述的是一只叫做Paco的鸚鵡的故事……

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