Flower City is Guangzhou. Flower City Press is a publishing house located in Guangzhou.
The children's reading room have housed lots of peaceful memories of childhood for me. I would usually go on a Saturday afternoon. Since Nanhai Library is right next to my parents' workplace, which was also our living compound, I would walk there on foot. There were many books that lasted an impression. Adapted versions of Detective Conan, detective novels authored originally in Chinese for children. One of the series featured ingenious cover design: when the spines are placed serial order, it forms an unknown man's face. It's to indicate putting traces in order. There was another series of books that made an impression, a series of children's dairies published by Flower City Press. A main contributing writer for the series is Zhang Meng Meng, similar age as me. I began reading her published diaries I was in grade three; and didn't follow onwards after the fourth one, for some reason, partly because the author had gone to middle school, and I couldn't empathize her later writings too well from the age gap.