The Magic Candy Ball
A Shy Little Girl’s Adventure Told in English and Chinese
Yuanyuan is a very shy little girl. She always speaks in a soft voice. One day, an old man who specializes in sugar figure blowing appears on the street. The sugar figures that he blows are so vivid that the children love to gather around him. Yuanyuan, however, is too shy to go. It isn’ t until all the children go home that Yuanyuan dares to step forward and asks the old man to blow a little candy man.
The old man agrees and blows a sugar ball for Yuanyuan, something magical happens ... The sugar ball becomes bigger and bigger, and it wraps around Yuanyuan, taking her flying higher and higher. Along the way, Yuanyuan encounters the exhausted birds, the hungry ants, and the cat who wants to go home but can’ t swim. What happens between the shy Yuanyuan and the little animals? Where will the magic candy ball take Yuanyuan?
Ye Shuixin, an art teacher, is from Chongqing, China. She graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute majoring in painting. Her works have been exhibited at the Illustration Art Show sponsored by the China Artists Association.
