《红瓦》曾获国家图书奖、北京市文学艺术奖，是一部少年长篇小说。从小说反映的内容和生活来看，可以视为《草房子》的续篇。小说以油麻地为背景，从一个中学生的视角诗意地描述了往昔乡村生活的淳厚风情，细腻地记录了少男少女由少不经事而逐渐明白人生的成长历程。本书曾经以《红瓦房》为书名在台湾出版，荣获台湾"好书大家读"最佳少年儿童读物奖，被韩国《中央日报》等评选为2001年度"十本好书"，其中第九章选入韩国高中语文教材。（Red Tile has won the National Book Award and Beijing Literature and Art Award. It is a juvenile full-length novel. From the perspective of content and life reflected in the novel, it can be regarded as a continuation of The Grass House. The novel describes the pure and honest style of rural life in the past with poetic thought and delicately records the growth process of boys and girls from being inexperienced and easily fooled to gradually understand the life from the perspective of a middle school student. The book was published in Taiwan with the book name of Red Tile-Roofed House and had the honor to win the Good books for Everyone: Award of Best Book for Children and was appraised and selected as one of the 2001 "Ten Good Books" by Korea Joong Daily and so on. In the book, Chapter IX was selected into Middle School Chinese textbooks of South Korea.）