Qilu Evening News Qilu OnePoint reporter Zhao Shifeng Interactive editor Wang Xuefei
Welcome to Sophie's Dad Read. Last week, Xinhua Daily Telegraph's WeChat public account published an article mentioning the "nice" grandpa that often appears at the end of small videos on major social networking sites. The old man in the video is 75 years old, from the United Kingdom, named Michael Rosen, who is actually a famous children's book author.
This old man has a bumpy life, but he is always optimistic and upward, and uses his children's books to inspire and infect children. Just last year, he even walked through the ghost gate of the new crown, and wrote this experience into a small story after "death and resurrection". About the experience of this optimistic and humorous old man, Sophie's father will no longer introduce it here, and interested friends can search for WeChat to see for themselves. Today, I will mainly introduce one of his classic masterpieces - the picture book "We are going to catch the bear".
We're Going to Catch a Bear was a collaboration between Michael Rosen and painter Helen Oxonberry. By the way, Helen is the wife of the English picture book master Burningham.
The story is that Dad led the family to catch bears, and they went through meadows, rivers, woods, and snowstorms, and finally found the bears. But as soon as the bears narrowed their eyes, they were so frightened that they began to run back, through snowstorms, woods, rivers, and meadows, and finally ran back home and hid in the quilt.
The story does not seem to have any "meaning" on the surface, its "meaning" lies in: interesting stories, brisk rhythms, and fresh pictures, immersive paper adventures, and children to share the excitement and thrill of catching bears.
Whether it is words or pictures, the sense of rhythm is very strong, when looking for bears, the picture is page by page, and when chased by the bear, it becomes several pages. The same text, the same scene, different directions, the rhythm suddenly accelerates, the heartbeat suddenly strengthens: let the children who read have a special sense of "substitution"!
The whole book is presented in the form of rhyming recitation of poems, which is catchy to read and suitable for the whole family to read together. It is worth mentioning that the Chinese translation of the story is Mr. Lin Liang, a famous children's literature researcher in Taiwan, whose translation is tepid and just right to express the humorous, playful and popular style of the original text.
After the book was published, it not only won several awards in the United Kingdom, but also became a popular bestseller in Europe and the United States. Major awards include nominations for the Kate Greenaway Award in 1988, the Neysil Smarty Book Award in the UNITED Kingdom in 1989, the Special Award at the 14th Japan Picture Book Awards, and the 1990 Horn Book magazine Good Book of the Year, etc., and were selected for the New York Public Library's "100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know".
The domestic simplified version of the book was introduced by Inspiration Culture and published by Hebei Education Publishing House.
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