# 关于巢的疑问 — 简体中文对照阅读与涂色版

Prepared 25 October 2026. The illustrated English story is the source for the Chinese translation. This edition keeps all 89 story paragraphs and 26 marginal captions in their original order.

## Choose a file

- `The-Nest-Question-zh-Hans-A5.pdf`: 20 pages, 148 × 210 mm, in normal reading order. Page 1 is the original colour cover; pages 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 contain the unchanged English illustration pages. Their facing pages contain the corresponding Chinese story and captions. The original English lettering and baked page numbers 8–15 remain visible, as explained on page 2.
- `The-Nest-Question-zh-Hans-A4-Booklet.pdf`: ten A4 landscape sides already arranged to make a 20-page A5 booklet from five duplex A4 sheets. Print A4, landscape, actual size/100%, double-sided, flipping on the short edge. Turn off any additional Booklet or multiple-pages setting. Test one folded sheet first, then print the set, fold, nest and fasten at the fold with adult help.

For an ordinary print shop using its own booklet arrangement, supply the A5 reading-order PDF. A printer must confirm its own paper, bleed, colour and production requirements; the supplied files have no bleed or PDF/X certification. Paper and printing may cost money. The files and permission to share unchanged copies are free.

## Reading together

Follow the child's pace. The original art may be coloured or left unchanged. The translated facing page can be read aloud. A word, image or question may be skipped. Keep the book open to different interpretations; there is no answer to get right.

## Language review

An independent model review checked the translation against the illustrated 605-word English narrative and 26 captions. It checked paragraph mapping, character names, feminine pronouns for Wonder and the cormorant, meaning and child-readable phrasing. Six improvements are recorded in `sources/translations/zh-Hans/review-record.json`; the initial draft is preserved beside the reviewed source. This is not a claim of a human native-reader proofread or a completed child reading trial.

The story uses embedded static Noto Sans SC. Main text is 11.5 pt, except the dense second story part at 10.5 pt; captions are 10.5 pt. No wording was removed to make the layout fit.

## Verification and limits

`zh-Hans-preflight.json` records page geometry, embedded fonts and Unicode maps, extraction of every translated paragraph and caption, original-image pixel identity, imposed half-page matching, safe text bounds and software decoding of the actual rendered QR symbols. All 20 A5 pages and ten A4 sides are rendered under `review/zh-Hans/`.

A printed proof, folding check, phone-camera scan and child reading session remain real-world checks; they have not been represented as completed. Original raster detail is approximately 148 ppi for the illustrations and 203 ppi for the colour cover. It has not been upscaled or regenerated.

The builder accepts `--publisher-url` so the readable back-cover address, clickable link and QR payload stay identical. The saved preflight record identifies the address actually encoded in this build. Confirm it before distributing a new edition.
