初中水平：皇帝的新衣英文版（包括中文翻译）

Preface

Thirty years ago I wrote a few dozen stories for children and those published here have been selected from among them. My intention was to call upon children to take an interest in real life and be attentive to things around them.
After "The Statue of the Ancient Hero"appeared in a Chinese reader a great number of teachers and students wrote to me about it, each holding a different view as to the moral of the story and asking whether their interpretation of it was correct. In my replies I could only tell them what I had in mind when I wrote it and that the moral would be divulged only at the end. The greatest significance in life for the stones of all sizes lay in forming a solid road for people to walk on. Before the road was built the hewing of the great rock into the statue of a hero and the use of the smaller stones for its base were of rather minor significance. When the big stone became proud after having been hewn into the statue of a hero,