The Paper's reporter Gao Dan
The growth education of adolescents has always been the most memorable problem for parents, but the various experiences summarized over the years seem to be from the perspective of adults, and there is always a kind of outsider's perspective, and the "insiders" teenagers themselves are more full of questions and anxieties about growth, and they need to be answered more. Recently, the children's growth novel series "Young Wolf" created by writer and publisher Ahn Bo Shun was launched by New Classic Culture, and at the book launch, "Young Wolf" author An Bo Shun shared with scholar and writer Zhou Guoping and Li Xin, CEO of New Classic International Children's Book Group.
"Young Wolf" new book launch guest dialogue
An Boshun, who was once the editor-in-charge of "Wolf Totem" and the promoter of this book, has always paid attention to the wolf as an animal: "I saw wolves when I was seven years old, and I looked at wolves for ten minutes, I think wolves have a natural sense of mystery, and in my hometown of Shandong Wheat Field, old people will often mention wolves when they tell stories. Secondly, because I edited the book "Wolf Totem" and later went to shoot with the crew, I was familiar with wolves, and I collected a lot of amazing wolf stories. Later, I was going to create a cartoon about wolves, so I delved into the growth of the wolf. ”
Author Ambozun
It is also because of the publication of "Wolf Totem", An Boshun has traveled almost all over the grassland, often shocked by the vast and beautiful scenery, and always remembers the wolf who left a deep impression on his childhood. Thus, a little wolf named Bayar was born in the pen of Ambashun. Born in the Elun steppe, Bayar was hunted down before he could open his eyes, was abandoned by a she-wolf, and was accidentally adopted by a stray mastiff. He was energetic, ran into many misfortunes, and even almost fell to his death; he learned to hunt his prey, but was scorned by stray dogs; he confessed to his lovely mastiff sister, but unexpectedly let her adoptive father, the mastiff king, bite off half of his tail fiercely; he longed for freedom and walked alone, but was caught by other wolves and became the "nanny" of their children...
"Young Wolf" stereoscopic cover
The birth of "Young Wolf" is also what Amber Shun wants to help his friends, as well as some young parents and their children.
Ahn Bo Shun told the story of the three children around him. A child is taught that "having a job is the last word", and has been controlled or even suppressed by parents for a long time, resulting in the child being 37 years old or alone, not trusting others and having no friends; the second example is a smart child from an early age, he can write poetry when he was seven years old, read Sartre as a teenager, but because his parents are too laissez-faire, he did not even enter high school.
"Then there is my son, when I was young, I was too busy to take care of him, and in the end our family had problems." Children do not have big problems in life and feelings, but they are very mediocre and feel that they have no dreams. I think of all three kids, one of whom didn't understand what independence and freedom are and what self-discipline is when they were kids. One is that they do not have the ability to love and trust, do not learn to love, and end up on the lonely and strange path of life that they are now. Dreams are too important, and if a child does not have a dream, he will always have problems in the future. Ahn Bo Shun said.
It is also because of his long-term research on children's education that Ahn Bo Shun thought of "organically combining the story of the wolf with the growth and education of children to write such a novel." Zhou Guoping said: "This novel appears to be an animal novel on the surface, the wolf is the protagonist, but in fact it is a growth novel, An Boshun just said some views and views on growth, the most important thing to grow up is to have ideals, to have love, to have trust, this is romanticism. There is also the need to be independent, brave, and meet the challenges of life, which is heroism. These qualities are concentrated in the protagonist of the story, Bayar. ”
Inside page of Young Wolf
Zhou Guoping also believes that there are many kinds of animal novels on the market, but one of the outstanding characteristics of "Young Wolf" is philosophical reason. The language of philosophy is simple, but it is difficult to write a vivid story. Bayar is a teenage wolf, but he grows up with the same confusion as a human child, questioning "who am I?" questioning, sleepiness and tediousness of learning, and adolescent rebellion. The narrative structure of "Young Wolf" is composed of "who I am", "the confusion of growing up" and "the realization of dreams", combining the classic narrative mode with the confusion of teenagers' growth.
In Young Wolf, the story of the little wolf has three stages. The first stage is how it pursued freedom and independence in the preschool stage when it was a child; later it found that freedom is not casual indulgence, and the first meaning of freedom is self-discipline, without which there is no freedom. When it grows up, adolescence comes, rebellion comes, the little wolf begins to be a singer on the prairie, and what to be, not good at learning, feeling that responsibility and the like have nothing to do with itself, at this time how it finds love, how to find friends. In the third stage, the little wolf continues to grow up and has a dream, because there is no dream, so Grandpa Wolf tells it a secret, and it begins to have the idea of being a wolf king.
Ahn Bo Shun also said that cartoons such as "Crazy Animal City", "Super Marines", and "Brain Agent Team" have watched many times, just to learn the structure of these stories, "The protagonist of "Brain Agent Team" is a primary school student, but the line he said in it is that I learned the language of Microsoft to write programs, which is what can only be learned in college, and many of the plots in it have risen to the universe, to the black hole, to the folding of time, this is an animation for children, it can actually be written like this. I also want to tell you, I want to remind myself that we must not underestimate the current teenagers, their IQ, their ability to analyze problems, their novelty and feeling of a lot of external things, his acumen, much stronger than we think. ”
The protagonist Bayar in "Young Wolf" is anthropomorphic, but the details are almost all real, and the author chooses from hundreds of real wolf stories. For example, the wolf's support for the elderly and the young, the wolf's love for the child, the cute little wolf's difficult growth process, the wolf group cooperates in besieging the sheep pen, and uses wisdom to maneuver with the mastiff. "When the mastiff and the wolf confront each other, the mouth is always spitting, and I have actually seen this kind of scene, including when people fight, and after the fight, they can't move for about three to four hours, and the whole body is like a scattered frame." And in the summer mosquitoes were breeding on the surface of the water, jumping up one at a moment, and I wrote that the wolves had seen it while scouting there, but actually I had seen it myself. None of these life experiences are fictional, and if you are imaginary, no one will see them. Ahn Bo Shun said.
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