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World masterpieces are required reading lists, and we all know this. But the ideal is very full, and the baby will tell you that the reality may be very bone.
Wishes are good, but children can't see it and really can't see it.
I remember that when My Mother was a child, although she read a lot of books, in addition to the Dream of the Red Chamber, it was still mainly children's books, and the real large number of famous books was when I was in junior high school, and the class teacher who graduated from Beijing Normal University gave us a list of books from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University and asked us to finish reading.
I was too obedient, and I seriously read dozens or hundreds of books, especially all over Chinese modern and contemporary literature, but I didn't expect that my classmates didn't take it seriously.
Since then, I have been deeply fascinated by reading and writing, published many articles, and entered the young writers class of the Writers Association, which is also a very proud thing when I was a teenager.
But now the requirements for the reserve of knowledge of large languages in primary schools are already very high, so reading classics needs to start earlier.
Fortunately, now that there is listening to books, children can often contact the classics with the help of listening to books and radio dramas. However, many bibliographies are too dense, and children will still have some dyslexia.
I was most impressed by my college nibbling on Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, which, although philosophical, was still quite uncomfortable.
Later, I tried to nibble on James Joyce's masterpiece "Ulysses", but I didn't finish it until I finished it and gave up...
Maybe we think that the plot is compact, very good-looking masterpieces, for children, it is also a difficult tome.
At this time, famous cartoons can play a particularly big help.
It is much better for children to read the text after watching the cartoon first, have a preliminary understanding of the plot and characters. Moreover, the cultivation of reading habits is originally gradual, and interest is stimulated before there is a desire to explore deeply.
Today I recommend four famous cartoons to you: "Bell Tower Strange Man", "The Old Man and the Sea", "Shakespeare Famous Drama Animation", "Around the World in Eighty Days", and children read classics in a different way during this winter vacation.
Bell Tower Freak
Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris is a must-read book, and we must have seen movies as children. Although it is a tragic story, Disney made it into a cartoon full of fairy tale colors.
Inside the proudly towering bell tower in Paris, there lives the strange man of the bell tower by nature, Quasimodo. Since birth, Quasimodo has been imprisoned in the Bell Tower by his evil master, Flora.
Life in the bell tower is dark, but thanks to The fact that Quasimodo has made many good friends and is accompanied by funny gargoyles, it has added a touch of brightness to his monotonous and tedious life.
Quasimodo was always eager to go out into the outside world, and finally, an April Fool's Day that changed Quasimodo's fate arrived.
On this day, he met the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda, who he fell deeply in love with. So Quasimodo decided to use his wisdom and justice to defeat Brolo and give himself a new lease of life.
The cartoon is very Disney-style, and the stone statues in the bell tower have become anthropomorphic friends, just like the teacups and teapots in Beauty and the Beast are alive.
In the end, the children will be more receptive to the ending of the reunion, although there are more changes in the content, but the overall structure, character names and identities are respectful of the original work.
The film came out in 1996, but many people may not know it. In fact, it is a treasure film worth brushing.
It is a classic cartoon worth watching. The original children will watch it when they grow up, and the more profound and tragic color that reflects the historical and social reality still needs to be absorbed by the child after having a deeper experience and historical view, and the plot shown in this cartoon in the primary school stage is basically enough.
The Old Man and the Sea
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature, belongs to the bibliography that children must read.
Its eponymous cartoon is very high-grade, and it is an animated short film drawn on glass.
Alexander Petrov painted on glass based on oil painting, glass as a material, fingers as brushes, and painted on glass to create an animated film of only 22 minutes.
It can be said that this animation film realizes the combination of traditional oil painting and animation technology, bringing people a new sense of artistic beauty and audiovisual effects.
Although it is often not long, the content is highly restored to the original work, and the visual effect is very advanced.
There is also a way to do animation in this way of oil painting, which is also very popular with my mother, that is, "Beloved Van Gogh". You can also go to see this film, the whole film is shown with Van Gogh's paintings, the texture is invincible.
Speaking of "The Old Man and the Sea", the cartoon is based on the original story, mainly telling the story of an old fisherman Santiago who is eager to catch a big fish, he waits on the sea, struggles, fights with the big fish at sea and defeats the big fish.
Santiago is an experienced old fisherman who has a long-lost friendship with a young boy named Maroline. After eighty-four days of not catching a fish, one day, the two men went out to sea.
The two men who had the best luck that day soon caught a huge marlin. The two men who thought they could return to the ship did not expect to catch the big fish but attracted the shark siege, and the fierce attack seemed to be aggressive to force Santiago to give up the big fish in his hand.
And the old fisherman did not show weakness. Even if a big fat fish ended up being eaten only by sharks, Santiago did not give up on this hard-won big fish.
This cartoon is not hollow because of the high degree of condensation of the novel, nor is it greatly reduced by the change of the original form of expression, it is almost comparable to the greatness of the novel.
The animated film also won the 1,000-year Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and it's worth watching, if not for the famous story. And the timing is friendly, 22 minutes is just right for kids.
Shakespeare's famous play animation
Shakespeare's writings don't need to be said by the rice mother, right? Classics among classics, the kind that can't be read without reading.
But if you read Shakespeare to your children head-on, most of the time they will still be more resistant.
I remember when I was a kid, the movie channel always ran the Hamlet movie, and I memorized a lot of the dialogue in it, which was Shakespeare's classic quote. My desire to explore Shakespeare was also inspired by watching movies.
But this kind of black and white old film is difficult to arouse the interest of children to watch now.
This Shakespeare Animation solves this problem perfectly, and not only Hamlet, it has 12 Classic Shakespearean plays.
They are: Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Dead, Rejoicing in Everyone, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, and The Tempest.
It can be said that after watching this cartoon, Shakespeare's most famous works are basically understood, which is much easier than reading the original book! Definitely a great movie to read the classics with half the effort.
Moreover, each episode was intimately filmed for 25 minutes, often very friendly, and the children could accept it. And in fact, Shakespeare's works are really classic, its storyline has ups and downs, contradictions and conflicts are fierce, and it will not be impossible to watch at all.
This set of cartoons is too suitable as an introductory tool for children to understand Shakespeare's works, and if there are opportunities for drama and stage performances in schools, these cartoons can also be used as material.
Because this set of cartoons was made in 1992, it definitely looks like it has a sense of ancient picture quality. But you'll find that this age-old scum quality evokes the classicist beauty of Shakespeare's plays.
And the style of each episode is different. Macbeth goes like this:
Othello goes like this:
"The Taming of the Taming" becomes like this again:
In short, this kind of time-friendly, high-quality animation with a large number of episodes is simply a blessing for the winter vacation, and it is over to watch.
Travel around the globe for eighty days
It is a puppet animation film co-produced by the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio and the German Manfred Dukejo Restraint Film Company, based on the science fiction novel of the same name by French writer Jules Verne.
Set in London, England in 1872, in a club dedicated to local gentlemen to chat, a gentleman named Falk, while chatting with his friends, threatened to travel the world in eighty days and was willing to bet twenty thousand pounds.
Falk then hurried out of London with his retinue, Baspat, and embarked on an adventure like never before.
Despite all the difficulties, he arrived in London five minutes late, thinking that he had failed, but he unexpectedly won the victory because he circled the earth from west to east, saving just one day.
The film contains a wealth of historical and geographical knowledge, and also shows the strange customs of various places. The knowledge content is still very high.
This is also an old film, so for us it is a childhood memory. But now it can still be recommended, which shows its classics, and today's children still don't feel violated.
Reading classics is too necessary for children, in fact, in addition to the world's famous works, there are also many famous books in children's literature, which are required reading lists. For example, "The Sound of the Wind in the Willow Forest", "The Little Prince", and "Insects".
Mi grain mother has bought several versions of "The Little Prince", there are text versions, illustrated versions, and three-dimensional book versions.
Recently, there is a very popular mental health book called "Mr. Toad Goes to the Psychiatrist". The characters in it are borrowed from the characters in "The Sound of the Willow Forest": toads, moles, river rats...
This is similar to the Godzilla universe, the League of Legends universe, and the willow forest wind sound also has a universe, so it is recommended that children read it during the winter vacation.
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