Introduction

The world in the Dimwood forest can be called a universe! It is divided into three regions, the Dimwood forest with few people, the forest area around which is sparsely populated, and the densely populated city of Amber.There are many kinds of residents here: ragweed family, poppy family, beaver family,porcupines, owls, fox family, bat family… With the growth of poppy family as the main line, they are intertwined with each other.This is a "panoramic novel of animals".

Avi, winner of the Newbery Medal for Literature for three times, has created six wonderful stories, spanning three regions and four generations of life. From the perspective of children, he shows the different living environments of animal residents and their growing confusion, development opportunities, pursuit of ideals, challenges to rights, conflicts and reconciliation between parents and children, etc. The writer includes his real family life into the story, sometimes deep, sometimes turbulent, sometimes beautiful, sometimes plain and moving.

Author

Avi is a master of children's books in the United States. He has won many international awards, including Newberry Medal, Golden

Kite Award, Children's Choice Award of International Reading Association, Teens’ Choice Award of American Library Association, two times of Horn Book Award of Boston Globe, etc. She was born in 1937 in New York, USA. More than 80 children's works have been published since 1970. From animal adventure novels to children's historical novels, numerous classic works have been created for children.

The painter,Brian Floca, is a famous American children's book writer and illustrator. He graduated from Brown University, an Ivy League school. He once became famous for drawing illustrations for "Tales from Dimwood forest" series. His other masterpieces are Locomotive, Moonshot and Lightship, among which Locomotive won the Randolph Caldecott Medal in 2014.