摘要
美国华裔女童邹奇奇(英文名Adora Svitak),与父母和姐姐生活在西雅图市。邹奇奇3岁时就开始阅读,6岁时开始用笔记本电脑写作,2005年8岁时出版12万字的故事集《飞扬的手指》,轰动美国。新书的题材相当丰富,除了不同历史背景的故事外,亦有她对石油消耗、复制人及战争的见解。
Adults often underestimatekids' abilities. We love challenges, but when expectations are low,we will sink to them. My own parents had anything but low expectations for me and my sister. I loved to write from the age of four, and when I was six my room bought me my own laptop equipped with Microsoft Word. I wrote over 300 short stories on that little laptop,