If you are walking through New York’s Central Park on a fine summer day, you might come across a group of children enthusiastically listening to a story. The storyteller will be sitting beside a statue of a kindly looking man holding an open book. Although this man never actually visited New York, his fame as a writer of fairy tales and children’s stories has spread far beyond his homeland.

如果你在一个晴朗的夏日漫步穿过纽约中央公园，你也许会碰见一群孩子在全神贯注地听着故事。说故事的人会坐在一个和蔼可亲的男人雕像旁，他手里拿着一本翻开的书。虽然这位男士从来没有去过纽约，他作为童话及儿童故事作家的名望，却超越故土、远扬他乡。