★Everyone growing up needs such an Alice. --When I was Milan's age, I often wished I had such a beautiful and wise woman in my life, who was not a mother, a teacher, or a sister, but she was all three in one. She was a gentle and friendly person who answered all the questions of life for me.
★ A work of spiritual dialogue under the pen of Cheng Wei, a famous Chinese writer in Germany.
A heartfelt dialogue between a young Chinese girl, Milan, living in Germany, and an elderly German, Alice. It is a dialogue between a child and an old woman, a dialogue between different culture, and a dialogue between the East and the West.
★The books in this series are beautifully designed, with a rich combination of real historical pictures and purely beautiful hand-painted illustrations.

★Works honors:
-Bingxin Children's Book Award
-Reading together in the "National Hundred Classes and Thousands of Readers" program
-"China Reading Weekly" "Children's lifelong influence on reading"
-"China Publishing Today" "Children's Book of the Year"
-The annual selection of "50 favorite books" by the General Administration of Press and Publication of the Peoples' Republic of China
-Top Ten Books of the Year by Phoenix Media Network

★Focus on 6 major growth topics: socialbility, family, love, confidence, money management, and communication::
"Milan’s Secret Garden" - treating people with grace and ease.
"A Heaven Full of Dancing Stars" - Understanding home and parental love.
"Juliet with Black Hair" - the romance and warmth of those young years.
"A Girl's Dream of Being Beautiful" - finding your own distinctive beauty.
"Open Sesame" - about the secrets of money.
"Dear Alice" - the communication between people's hearts.

There are 6 books in this series: "Milan's Secret Garden", "Juliet with Black Hair", " A Girl's Dream of Being Beautiful ", " Open Sesame", " A Heaven Full of Dancing Stars ", "Dear Alice".

Every weekend, The pair of good friends despite great difference in age talks about how to treat people, how to be a guest, how to respond to conversation ......
Milan: "Socializing? That seems to be an adult thing, right?"
Alice: "Don't think that socializing is just for adults, Milan. From the moment you learn to smile at people, from the moment you open your mouth and say your first words, you've actually started your socialization."
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Gradually, Milan became a little lady with manners and substance in the eyes of the Germans, while her peers remained innocent children. Milan learned that everyone is just as important as herself and has the right to be respected, so it is important to care about the feelings of everyone around her and to express her gratitude in a timely manner.

Cheng Wei is a famous Chinese writer who lived in Germany. When she was in middle school, she began to publish children's literature, and in her twenties she was hailed as "one of the talented children's literature writers" of her time. Her middle-grade novel "Children from a Foreign Country" and her full-length novel "The Red Hair Card of a Young Girl" won the 1st and 2nd National Outstanding Children's Literature Awards, respectively. The work "The Turtle Teacher 1: The Beach in the Campus" won the 2018 Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award for Book (Text) of the Year.
After settling in Germany, Cheng Wei became a producer for German TV2, filming Chinese cultural documentaries on subjects such as Qin Shi Huang(the First Emperor of Qin), Marco Polo, the Silk Road, Confucius and the Beijing Olympics, and doing a lot of work for cultural exchange between China and Germany. With years of experience in children's literature and a deep and unique understanding of Eastern and Western cultures, she always believes that "excellent children's literature should be the warm and strong hand that pulls children from the arms of their parents to the wide world".

Mi Mo, a professional illustrator, has illustrated the classic works of many children's literature writers such as Cheng Wei and Cao Wenxuan, and has published her work "To a Quiet Place - Mi Mo Watercolor Picture Book".

1 Blue ice cream
9 The cottage full of roses
19 First weekend - the skill of talking
43 Miracles happen
53 The second weekend - the secret of popularity
77 Flowers for Mom
89 The third weekend - Friends from afar
109 Unhappy Birthday
115 The fourth weekend - the mystery of gifts
127 Natalie's questions
137 Not an Epilogue - Cinderella's Rules
157 We're Ready (The author says)