Every child grows up with their own wishes: birthday wishes, New Year's wishes... but how to talk to adults to get them to agree?
A little friend named Sophia has a birthday wish - he wants to pet a giraffe. In order to achieve this, she must overcome four difficulties: her mother (she is a judge), her father (a businessman), her uncle (politician), and her serious grandmother. Sophia's plan failed again and again, but she did not give up, she seized the last opportunity to revise the proposal again... Can her birthday wish be fulfilled?
This simple "one sentence" story "A Sentence from Sophia", if you read it carefully, you will find three aspects of the picture book:
Story text: Humorous text and obvious rhythm
Sophia's little friend is the little protagonist of the picture book "Sophia's A Word". This picture book is one of the best-selling picture book series inspired by the world, produced by American Jim. by Affelbeck, IELTSMIN, UK. Ismail with pictures, translated by Dong Haiya, is popular with children aged 3-6.
The story of "Sophia's One Sentence" is vivid and interesting, in line with everyone's identity characteristics, the picture is colorful, the rhythm of the story is obvious, and it is easy for children to read into the story, and Sophia to think and act together.
Opening the story, the first sentence of the story is straight to the point: Sophia's birthday is coming, and she has been thinking about five things in her heart- a most wanted birthday gift and four difficulties. His most desired birthday present is a pet giraffe. The four hurdles are mom (she's a judge), dad (a businessman), uncle (politician) and serious grandma.
So how do you make demands and fulfill your wishes? The clever Sophia learned to make proposals, slides, business plans, polls, charts, etc., to help her express her own demands, in detail and thoughtfulness. What if I fail? It didn't matter, after each proposal, Sophia got suggestions from adults, and she quickly applied them to the next proposal.
The four "difficulties" cleverly achieve the four-fold structure of the story, so that the child can easily find the rhythm of the story, and what happened in the end? After four failures, Sophia decided to make a final effort on her birthday eve. In the end, there is only one sentence left: please agree! (Plus the pitiful, irresistible look in her eyes), and finally she found out: one sentence really worked. There is another sentence that is of great use: "Thank you"!
This inverted ending brings the whole story to a climax, makes the young readers emotionally high, and when the story is still unfinished, the children also begin to think: Why is it that so many preparatory proposals have been done before, and it is better than the last sentence?
Hidden in the story: the way of doing things
Yeah, why? At this time, you may wish to review the picture book with the child, guide the child to see the steps of Sophia's expression of appeal, these details hidden in the picture book are also the Easter eggs buried in the author's creation.
What preparations did Sophia make when she proposed it? She carefully analyzes the professional characteristics of each person, the rigor of judges, the attention of businessmen to economic interests, the importance of politicians to public opinion, and the serious grandmother to value feelings, involving proposals according to different characteristics, supplemented by tools: slides (judge's mother), business plans (businessman's father), polls (politician's uncle) and emotional offensives (serious grandmothers) in an attempt to persuade them. Each proposal sees Sophia's thinking and energy, although there are shortcomings, but to affirm her way of thinking and doing things.
For example, for the politician uncle, after accepting the suggestions made by the judge's mother and the businessman's father in the first two levels, she did not want to be wordy and concise, and when she proposed to the politician's uncle, the language was much more concise, and she conducted a poll and drew a public opinion pie chart. These acts are very worthy of recognition, and the politician's uncle also described in detail the reasons for "not accepting the proposal", which also convinced Sophia.
Isn't this way of communicating interesting? There are many children who can't wait to learn after listening: the next time I want to buy something to keep a pet, I will also make a proposal like Sophia to convince Mom and Dad! That's right! Through each proposal, you will see your child's growth in analyzing problems, thinking carefully, taking responsibility, and so on.
The charm of emotion vs the expression of language
However, the children wondered even more: why did such a thorough and detailed proposal not succeed, but in the end the "one sentence" succeeded?
Back in the story, follow each proposal, you will find that there is another clue in the story that is worth chewing and learning repeatedly, that is, the expression of language. Take a look at the advice made by adults every time a proposal is rejected:
Mom said: Your statement is too verbose.
Dad said: Your report is too cumbersome.
Uncle said: You are talking too cumbersome.
Grandma said: The next time you have something to say, just say it.
When these words are repeated again, the children are surprised to find that verbose, cumbersome, cumbersome and wordy mean the same thing. Then, on reflection, Mom and Dad seem to have said: You are not clear about the point of your speech, too wordy?
So how did Sophia end up doing it? After going through four difficulties, Sophia finally said straight to her heart: Please agree! Concise and clear, in the end, the wish came true.
So the previous detailed proposals are not needed? Of course not! The exhaustive and thoughtful way of doing things is an attitude of hard work, combined with concise and clear expression, and sincere feelings, in order to truly effective language!
Perhaps, when the child grows up, he will find that sometimes a long speech without emotion is not as good as a sentence full of feelings! For adults, the same is true!