Ticket To Childhood

Nguyễn Nhật Ánh grew up in Quảng Nam province of central Vietnam and started writing stories and poems at the age of 13. To this day, he has written more than 100 titles, which set him in Vietnam’s Guinness Book of Records in 2005 as the most prolific author for children and young adults, though his writings have been warmly embraced reader of all ages.
Ticket To Childrenhood were included on a list of “105 Most Read Books of the World” that Ten Books Publishing House in Japan compliled in 2013.

Tun’s departure loss to take. It we dog farm fiasco, was too much loss to take. It was, in a way, the end of my childhood. I became pensive, and napping no longer seemed like a punishment. I lost my enthusiasm for changing the world. I had railed at my helplessness, but now I surrendered to it. Adults, I realized, tend to avoid life’s uncharted waters and paddle along in shallow manmade canals, just like vehicles obeying traffic rules. And it’s all for the sake of safety.

Adults have their good qualities, of course. Now that I am one, I can say so. I’m even proud of my responsible “adult” behavior. And children have their blind spots. They take parental love for granted. (The kids who complain the loudest are often the ones who are loved the best. It takes a certain security to be critical. But I’m philosophizing again.)