"Almost the Whole Truth About Unicorns": Biogeography and Humanities, a book to understand unicorns

According to legend, the horn of the unicorn has magical healing powers that can make people immortal.

Therefore, the royal nobility of Europe has long been popular in making wine glasses with unicorns, because according to legend, "unicorns" can test the items it contains, whether they are toxic.

However, no one seems to have seen the legendary unicorn. Because she is so pure and mysterious that it seems to exist only in vague fairy tales.

For children, the most familiar unicorn may be The Pony Paulie.

Until I heard that there was such a children's book "Almost all the truth about unicorns", and "Almost all the truth about mermaids" that An An Chao loved before, were all produced by waves.

In such a beautiful "documentary" book, the unicorn is no longer out of reach, but is as intimate as the cute little pony next to us.

From the perspective of biological evolution, the author depicts the gradual evolution of five generations of unicorns, and Sister Ann and Sister Xinxin happily play different games: different sizes, different hairs, different colors, different horseshoes, and most importantly, the beautiful unicorn.

Speaking of unicorns, it is necessary to solemnly introduce the magic he possesses, in addition to making unicorn cups with one horns that can be detoxified; children are surprised to find that the armor of medieval European knights is also decorated with unicorn tails, and according to legend, if the unicorn voluntarily sacrifices its tail, it can make the armor hard; the unicorn's eyes, nose, and mouth also have magical magic, which makes the children marvel at it...

After talking about living things, we come to the unicorn world constructed by geography.

Is this map of the world familiar? In the mermaid world, we have also seen this picture, and with the addition of ocean currents. (If you read more children's books like this, the world map is definitely remembered).)

Different parts of the world, because of different geographical environments, are suitable for different types of unicorn life.

Let's take three examples.

Flying wing unicorn, I asked Sister Anxin to think for herself first, in what kind of place does a unicorn need to grow wings? If they need to fly, should they be bigger or smaller? The two little ones discuss the heat of the earth.

Next up is the Northland Forest Unicorn. The question on this page is: What will be the food of unicorns in the forest? When climate changes, what changes will the unicorn's body produce to adapt to the environment?

Unicorn of the Highland Wilderness. We all know that once they fall into the swamp, it will be very dangerous, so what kind of ability does a unicorn living in such a dangerous place have to protect themselves?

After understanding unicorns from an evolutionary, geographical, and biological perspective, our third task is to consider that humans and unicorns have such a relationship.

In addition to the known ability of unicorns to detoxify humans and possess magic, what should we pay more attention to is what we humans can do for unicorns? I asked Sister Anxin to discuss it together, to draw a picture in a mind-drawing way, what we can do for unicorns. Then read on together.

In the unicorn world constructed by the author, we have a mysterious society for the protection of unicorns, who have chapters all over the world and have a beautiful and distinctive emblem. After reading this paragraph, Sister An An also designed a beautiful badge for our family. To some extent, the emblem, which is the original ideology of mankind, represents different tribes, clans, and beliefs, whether it is today's team emblem or the national emblem of various countries, such a symbolic meaning is through time and space.

So, what can unicorn-loving kids who haven't joined the organization do yet?

This is a very meaningful question.

First, we'll learn how to track unicorns.

In this section, the author cleverly blends knowledge of wilderness exploration and survival.

From the must-have supplies, to clues (exchanges and information) on how to feed the birds with bread to get unicorns, to the beautiful notebook, the author's description is both plain and interesting.

In the "Looking for Clues" section, it tells how we can get the most precious mysterious clues through careful observation.

Finally, in addition to finding unicorns, we have more things that we can do directly, and the most important thing is to protect the environment.

In the book, the author writes that we should try to make the plants that originally lived here grow again.

It takes hundreds of years for a sapling to grow into a towering tree, and it takes only a few minutes to plant it.

I was deeply moved by this sentence.

Also, if you see plastic waste or other garbage, clean them up. This is also a beautiful seed sown in the hearts of children.

In the past, when I chose children's books, I would pay more attention to the story, but as the children grew up, I felt more and more that what children needed more than perfect fairy tales was to know how fairy tales and the world are connected.

We must have love and beauty in our hearts, and we must know what kind of foundation these love and beauty need to be built, and we must think more about what actions we can use to achieve these love and beauty.

The book of the waves and flowers really surprised me.