安徽科学技术出版社从美国独家引进的英文版《心灵鸡汤》系列读物，全球热销8000万册。本书语言地道新颖，简约易懂，优美流畅；故事生动有趣，寓意深刻感人，内容极富时代感。本书中的几百个故事会引你们进入爱与感动的深情世界，会使你们活得充满激情；会使你们更有信心地去追求梦想。在面临挑战、遭受挫折之时，这本书会给你以力量；在彷徨、痛苦和失落之际，这本书会给你以慰藉。

此外，作为英语阅读的顶级精品，本套书深得广大读者的推崇与喜爱，广受各方的赞誉和褒奖：被评为“2001年度全国优秀畅销书”；被评为“2001年度全国引进版优秀畅销丛书”；荣获“2002年度全国引进版社科类优秀图书奖”；被评为“2004年度全国优秀畅销书”；在国家九部委联合举办的“中华全民读书书目推荐活动”中，一举入围《2004知识工程推荐书目》；多次荣登各大新华书店的畅销书排行榜。本书是《心灵鸡汤》之《母爱悠悠英文原版》。

This book is our gift to you, the mothers of the world. In writing this book, we wanted to honor mothers everywhere, but how can you thank a mother for the gift of life? As we read the thousands of stories that we considered for Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, we were deeply moved by the depth of feeling people expressed for their mothers.

Many people talked about the sacrifices their mothers had made; others, how courageous their mothers were. Still others shared the inspiration and encouragement they had received from their mothers. But no theme was more widely expressed than that of the eternal nature of a mother’s love.

One piece we came across beautifully captures the essence of this theme:

One calm, bright, sweet, sunshiny day, an angel stole out of heaven and came down to this old world, and roamed field and forest, city and hamlet. Just as the sun went down he spread his wings and said: "Now my visit is out, and I must go back to the world of light. But before I go, I must gather some mementos of my visit here. "

He looked into a beautiful flower garden and said, "How lovely and fragrant these flowers are. " He plucked the rarest roses and made a bouquet and said, "I see nothing more beautiful and fragrant than these; I will take them with me. "

But he looked a little further and saw a bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked baby, smiling into its mother’s face. And he said, "Oh, that baby’s smile is prettier than this bouquet; I will take that, too. "

Then he looked just beyond the cradle and there was a mother’s love pouring out like the gush of a river toward the cradle and the baby. And he said, "Oh, that mother’s love is the prettiest thing I have seen on earth; ] will carry that, too. "

With the three treasures he winged his way to the pearly gates, and lit just on the outside and said, "Before I go in, I will examine my mementos. " And he looked at the flowers and they had withered. He looked at the baby’s smile and it had faded. He looked at the mother’s love and there it was, in all its pristine beauty.

He threw aside the withered flowers and faded smile, and winged his way through the gates and led all the hosts of heaven together and said, "Here is the only thing I found on earth that would keep its beauty all the way to heaven--it is a mother’s Iove. "

So with love in our hearts, we offer you Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul. May you experience the miracles of love, joy and inspiration when you read this book. May it touch your heart and move your spirit.

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,

Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Marci Shimoff

Introduction

1. ON LOVE

The Choice

Baby-Lift

A Surprise Gift for Mother

Mother’s Day

All Those Years

The Bobby Pins

Squeeze My Hand and I’ll Tell You That I Love You

In the Genes

A Child Is Born

A Perfect Son

Most Kids Are Born Only Once

Sisters Three

The Unlocked Door

Mom for a Day

Daddy’s Little Girl

2. A MOTHER’S GUIDING HAND

To Read When You’re Alone

With a Little Help from Mama

My Mother Says... ~

The Inspection

What Color Is a Hug?

Garlic Tales

The Tooth Fairy

Love Notes

Saved by the Belt

Red-Letter Failure Day

The Midnight Caller

3. A MOTHER’S COURAGE

My Son, Ryan

Awright, Mom?

Moving Mountains

Hearts Across the World

Real Vision

Every Morning Is a Gift

A Love Without Limits

A Mother’s Fight for a Special Child

Welcome to Holland

4. ON MOTHERHOOD

Mom’s the Word

Motherhood--A Trivial Pursuit?

Art 101

A Mother’s Letter to a Son Starting Kindergarten

Tale of a Sports Morn

No More Oatmeal Kisses

The Signs of Advanced Momhood

Forever, For Always, and No Matter What!

The Quiet Hero

Breaking in Baby

When a Child Goes Off to College

Mother’s Helper

The Stepmother

I’d Rather

5. BECOMING A MOTHER

Joy to the World

An Indescribable Gift

Motherwit

She Looks like Us

Mom

I Don’t Want a New Baby

Out of Our Hands

A Treasure Without Price

The Chosen One

6. SPECIAL MOMENTS

The Day We Flew the Kites 

Dance with Me

The Prognosis

The Family Dinner

Bouncing Back

My Daughter, My Teacher

The Broken Doll

A Child’s Vision

May Day

How Santa Knew

The Day I Was Too Busy

The Play’s the Thing

Swift Second

When Mother Came to Tea

Finding Her There

7. MIRACLES

Angel in Uniform

The Healing

Adopting a Dream

Honey, You’d Better Sit Down

A Promise on Mother’s Day

Mother and Child Reunion

After 40 Years

Four Angels

8. LETTING GO

Home Run for Mom

Remembering Will Have to Do

Celebrating My Mother

A Motherless Child

Robin

Letting Go

John

To Captain Candy and the Women Who Took to the Skies

9. A GRANDMOTHER’S LOVE

What’s a Grandmother?

I Was Born for This Job

Grandma’s Garden

Dinner Out

We Need a Rock

10. THANK YOU, MOM

Mama and Miss Jordan

When a Mother Blows Out 75 Candles

Six of the Seven Wonders of My World

Mailboxes

My Mother’s Riches

Just Plain Wrong

Great Lady

Acknowledgments