Realizing the dreams of youth: Before writing Pinocha the Plover, Liu Ko-hsiang's works had never departed from his childhood dreams of biology and geography. These sometimes had taken the form of poetry and sometimes reports of his observations of nature, until he finally turned his attention to history and travel.
在寫《風鳥皮諾查》之前，劉克襄的創作一直離不開他童年的夢想﹘﹘生物和地理，這些曾經是詩，也曾經是對大自然的觀察報告，最後他又把目標轉向歷史和旅行。