Shenzhen Book City in Futian District held a special book launch over the weekend for the author, She Yuehang, a 10-year-old Grade 4 student from Donghai Primary School Attached to Shenzhen Foreign Languages School.

    The young author promoted her new collection of articles known as “The Worn-out Gloves in Winter” during the activity. Shen Shixi, a well-known Chinese writer of children’s literature, wrote a prologue for the new book. Six other famous Chinese authors also recommended and supported the young author’s collection.

    She is the youngest author to sign a contract with the Shenzhen Haitian Publishing House. She described her experience of reading and writing to her peers and parents at the book launch. She said that her inspiration for writing stories stems from her enthusiasm for reading and it was crucial to select good books to read.

    Born in 2006, She turned 10 this year. She had already won the only special prize at a national writing competition for teenagers with her story “The Worn-out Gloves in Winter” last year.

    She has received invitations from publishing houses since then and finally published the collection named after her winning story with 51 other articles.

    (Zhang Qian)