In Make-Believe Land 梦幻大陆

The stories you are now going to read have been enjoyed by boys and girls ever since they were first written. 你即将要阅读的是一些自问世以来就广受男孩和女孩喜爱的故事。

Very surprising things happen in these stories. 这些故事中都出现了令人十分惊奇的事情。

But that is not strange, for they are stories from the land of make-believe, and in this land almost anything can happen. 这并不奇怪，因为它们是来自梦幻大陆的故事，在那片大陆几乎任何事情都可能发生。

In the days when the story-tellers went from town to town, 在说书人穿梭于城镇之间的年代里，

some of the tales the people loved best were about this wonderful land, and children of today love them, too. 人们最喜爱的故事便是关于这神奇大陆的，而如今的孩子仍旧喜爱它们。

Did you ever hear of animals playing jokes on each other? 你听说过动物之间互相逗趣吗？

In these stories you will read about some of their jokes, 在这些故事中你会读到关于它们的一些笑话，

You will read also about giants who did wonderful things, and about an old woman and a little old man who did magic tricks. 你也会读到做了了不起的事情的巨人们的故事，你还会读到会使用魔法的老妇人和小老头的故事。