Leo Tolstoy
列夫·托尔斯泰 列夫·托尔斯泰（1828~1910），俄国小说家、哲学家、政治思想家，世界最伟大的作家之一，其代表作有长篇小说《战争与和平》《安娜·卡列尼娜》《复活》等。
Tolstoy loved kids. At 21, the aristocrat opened a school for peasants on his estate. While writing Anna Karenina, he started working on schoolbooks for his students. Tolstoy wrote about his childhood, adapted Aesop's Fables and Hindu stories and penned playful fairy tales like Ivan the Fool and The Peasant and the Cucumbers. When Tolstoy finished, he read the tales to his toughest critics—the totat his schools. He asked them for pointersand reworkedthe stories until the tough crowd softened. Tolstoy eventually published the stories in two primers, the ABC Book andthe New ABC Book, which became staplesat Russian schools.
托尔斯泰喜欢孩子。21岁时，这位贵族在自己的庄园里办了一所农夫学校。在写作《安娜·卡列尼娜》的同时，他开始为自己的学生编写教材。托尔斯泰写了自己童年的故事，改编了《伊索寓言》和印度神话，还写了《傻子伊凡》和《农夫和黄瓜》这样幽默的童话故事。学校里的孩子们是这些故事最严格的评审，托尔斯泰每每写完之后，都会把故事念给他们听，向他们征求意见，然后进行修改，直到这些挑剔的小家伙们满意为止。托尔斯泰后来将这些故事汇编成两本启蒙读物出版，分别是《识字课本》和《新编识字课本》，它们后来成了当年俄国学校里主要的教材。
