Grandma Is a Walnut Tree

[A childhood story that's anything but ordinary, with dreams born of a child's heart] Winner of the Best Commercial Value Award. The new book, Dreaming Back to 1983: A Life of Fishing and Hunting, is now available. When Hu Doudou was seven, he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother. From her, he learned that there was a huge walnut tree in the backyard. For various reasons, the abandoned courtyard eventually became a refuge for him and his grandmother. Later, they built a little treehouse in the courtyard. They raised chickens and rabbits there, turning the place into their own “secret garden.” One day, Hu Doudou suddenly discovered that the little treehouse could make his small wishes come true. So, in the midst of his dull and dreary life, the unhappy Hu Doudou used the treehouse to rediscover the joy he'd lost. He also helped his classmates and teacher make all sorts of little wishes come true. But later, Hu Doudou saw through the truth behind the “magical” treehouse: his grandmother had been secretly helping things along. So Hu Doudou decided to cheat too, helping his grandmother fulfill, one by one, the wishes she'd never managed to realize. As Hu Doudou grew up, one day he suddenly asked himself: Why has Grandma always been so good to me? His grandmother always gave the simple answer: Because I love you. But Hu Doudou never believed in that kind of love! So he decided to look for the answer in the real world. ...At last, when his grandmother finished telling her story in the treehouse, Hu Doudou finally began to understand...