It can obviously rely on its appearance, but it is so powerful. This was my first feeling after reading the Calvino Italian Fairy Tales series.
The author Calvino, arguably Italy's contemporary national treasure, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1985, but lost the prize because of his sudden death that year. Until now, hearing this news has made people feel sorry.
Calvino's Italian Fairy Tales is based on the 1956 edition of Italian Fairy Tales by Calvino, and the children's book editors reclassify and edit it using an advanced system of world folklore research similar to that pioneered by Thompson, the "Arnay-Thompson System" (the "AT classification" is also known as "historical evolution and geographical distribution").
The AT classification method is an internationally common storyline type analysis method, so "Calvino Italian Fairy Tales" is classified according to the theme elements of the story, rearranged into volumes (divided into 3 series, each series contains 5 storybooks), a total of 63 folk tales and 5 Calvino original fairy tales.
The protagonists of the stories in this series of "Robber Girl Flower" are mostly girls from ordinary but witty and brave backgrounds, each small character flashes the light of humanity, and each unknown party symbolizes adventure and hope.
NO.1 Absorb the upward spirit
As the birthplace of the Renaissance, Italy is also the home of European fairy tales, which have a longer history than other European countries. Perhaps it is related to Italy's geographical environment in southern Europe, where the bright sunshine has created its enthusiastic and cheerful national character.
In Italian fairy tales, the praise of good qualities such as justice, kindness, bravery, and generosity is more enthusiastic, and the protagonists in the story are not only kings, princes, and princesses, but also many charismatic commoners or humble little people, such as Belinda, Little Pear, and Gilicoola, who are kind, brave, witty and humorous, and as innocent and simple as children.
The protagonists of the six stories of "Little Pear", "Long Golden Horn Calf", "Gilicoola", "Water in the Small Basket", "Rosemary", "The King's Son in the Chicken Coop" Are brave and witty girls, most of them are from ordinary origins, some are the daughters of fruit farmers, some of them shoulder the burden of the family at a young age, but all kinds of difficulties have not erased their kind hearts and yearning for a better life, and the girls have skillfully resolved the crisis through their own wisdom, and finally harvested happiness.
The spirit and fun shown in these stories are in line with the nature of children, and young readers can draw a positive and optimistic outlook on life and vigorous spiritual motivation from them.
NO.2 Cultivate the perception of beauty
The story of this set of books is compiled by the literary master Calvino, and is a fairy tale text with profound literary accumulation. It is worth mentioning that the illustrations in this set of books are also exquisite.
This series brings together many italian illustrators, including Giovanni Manna, winner of the International Hans Christian Andersen Prize in 2003, Fabian Negrin, winner of the 2000 Andersen Prize For Illustrator, Nicoleta Ceccory, winner of the Italian Illustrator of the Year award and the International Andersen Illustrator Award in 2001...
Born in Argentina in 1963, the painter Fabian Negrin studied graphic design and printmaking systematically in Mexico before moving to Italy in 1989. He has authored and authored more than 100 children's books, in collaboration with several prestigious publishing houses in Europe and the United States. He was nominated for the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Illustrator, the 2010 Bologna Children's Book Fair Nonfiction Book Award, and the 2014 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize.
They enhance the taste and aesthetics of the story with their artistic personality paintings, making the collection of simple fairy tales of the text shine, so that our children can read the story at the same time, but also enhance the aesthetic power.
NO.3 Ignite your writing inspiration
This series of books is a set of Italian fairy tales specially created for children, Calvino has selected nearly 100 fairy tales of moderate length, humorous and warm style and rich imagination for young readers, with concise, childlike language, rich in folk life, and the difficulty of vocabulary is appropriate.
According to the classification of story theme elements, children can choose the theme elements they are interested in to read, and it is also an ideal reading book for cultivating children's imagination, creativity, aesthetic ability, and literary appreciation.
The book contains four stories of "Neapolitan Soldiers", "Monkey Palace", "Five Prodigal Sons", "Manique the Thief", and "Little Dumb Melon". In this book, the reader can see the palace ruled by monkeys, the people who blow tornadoes, and the strange people who listen to the eyes of the eight directions, and they all have a wonderful performance with great skills.
In particular, four stories about a little idiot named Jufa, who, like our friends or classmates around us, is always confused and has all kinds of fantastic ideas that make people laugh. This is a great inspiration for children to write, let them boldly use their imagination, and create their own fairy tale kingdom for young readers.
Fairy tales make heavy things lighter, thick things thinner, obscure things clear, and complex things simple, but this does not mean that fairy tales are shallow and childish. On the contrary, it uses a clear and clear style to make every reader smile at the corner of his mouth.