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Masaaki Hiroi is an extremely renowned craftsman, who earned his status to be recognized as an artist. Masaaki Hiroi makes Edo tops, toys played by both adults and children not only in present-day Japan but also all over the world. He has created numerous Trick tops out of his imagination and creativity which use the spinning motion to move wooden dolls or other wooden items. Masaaki Hiroi&#39;s trick tops have unique movements and tastes. <br><br>His versions of tops, which far exceeded 3,000 kinds, attracted world-famous physicists, including a physicist who was nominated for Nobel Prize, and researchers from high academic background. He contributed to expanding variations of Japanese traditional Edo tops.<br><br>Do you know about the secret stories behind the birth of Tippe top, which are sold all over the world now? Tippe tops are sold at a lot of toy stores around the world. There are unknown secret stories about how Tippe tops were born and revived in this book.<br><br>Masaaki Hiroi is the first honorary citizen of Seattle, the United States and earned numerous awards for his achievements and contributions in foreign countries to promote good relationship between other countries and Japan. In the events, he demonstrated how to make tops to people of all ages in more than 30 countries. His works are permanently housed in prominent museums including Mus&Atilde;&copy;e des Arts D&Atilde;&copy;coratifs(Les Arts D&Atilde;&copy;coratifs), in Palais du Louvre, located in Paris, France.<br><br>This book is the story about Masaaki Hiroi&#39;s life-long experience from his childhood. There are a lot of unknown stories about him, which have led him to expand his views about culture and life. The author of the book, &quot;Wonder Man-A Memoir of a Craftsman Who Is Recognized as an Artist&quot; is a long-time acquaintance of Masaaki Hiroi. The author sincerely appreciates Masaaki Hiroi&#39;s kindly telling the author about his life and personal experiences from his childhood and the background stories of his achievements in order to write this book.

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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900.

Что будет, если пойти за спешащим Белым Кроликом в жилете? Можно ли оказаться не в своем уме, а в чужом? А встречали ли вы улыбку без кота? И почему нельзя убить время за чаепитием с Мартовским Зайцем? Удивительные ответы на удивительные вопросы можно найти только в Стране чудес, нырнув за отважной Алисой в кроличью нору, пережив множество захватывающих приключений и разгадав по пути тысячу головоломок.

"Архив Шерлока Холмса" (1921-1927) – последний сборник рассказов Дойля о знаменитом сыщике. За семь лет совместного существования Холмс начал тяготить Дойля. В 1893 году в рассказе «Последнее дело Холмса» автор пытался покончить со своим героем, предав его смерти. Поклонники сыщика, чей интерес только возрастал, были возмущены. Волею судеб в 1901 году Дойль услышал легенды о гигантской собаке-привидении, а так как выдумывать нового героя было ни к чему, он воскресил Холмса, чтобы уже не расставаться с ним до конца своих дней. Так жизнь сыщика растянулась на два сборника рассказов: последовал сборник «Возвращение Шерлока Холмса», а за ним – «Архив Шерлока Холмса». Читает молодой американский актер Бенджамин Сарджент на английском языке.

Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, у вас есть замечательная возможность познакомиться с приключениями девочки, попавшей в кроличью нору, на языке оригинала, а затем проверить свое понимание произведения, прослушав русский перевод. Текст не адаптирован, что должно быть особенно интересно для людей, владеющих английским на высоком уровне. Английская версия начитана носительницей языка, многократной победительницей конкурсов художественного чтения – Лизой Рей Кэмбелл (Новая Зеландия).