What would you do if a blue sneaker suddenly appeared on the street? Turn a blind eye, or help throw it in the trash. But when the child sees it, he will wonder why a blue sneaker suddenly appears on the street.
One day, in the quiet town of Chichecapone, a particularly strange thing happened: on the sidewalk of Hugo Victor Avenue, a blue sneaker suddenly appeared. This sneaker, what is it doing here?
The "little detectives" of the small town of Chichekapen, Adele, Hortons, Paul, Camille and Hugo investigate the blue sneaker abandoned on the street of Hugo Victor, and everyone speaks freely and gives their own explanation: Perhaps, the owner of the sneaker was eaten by a dinosaur; Perhaps, the giant baby accidentally fell on the street; It may also be because the owner of the sneaker has a disease that can make the foot constantly expand...
This is the content of the picture book "The Mystery of the Blue Sneakers", and the author André Bouchard is a French children's picture book writer and illustrator. Born in Rennes, France in 1958, he became a children's writer in 2002. In 2005, he won the INCOS Prize for French Children's Literature. In 2007, he won the French Children's Village Movement Literature Prize. His book Lions Don't Eat Pet Food (2012) won the Folies d'Encre Award and was included in the 6-8 year old reading list recommended by the French Ministry of Education.
Just like this "The Mystery of Blue Sneakers", the children's stories he created are full of humor and absurdity, and a little mysterious, through a series of exaggerated, absurd, humorous brain-hole reasoning, to stimulate children's curiosity and curiosity about everyday phenomena. In addition to the children's brain holes in the text, even the author himself made bold guesses.
Starting from the small things in life, we can also create picture books with our children
Reading André Bouchard's series of three picture books", "The Mystery of blue sneakers", "The Mystery of Snoring", and "The Mystery of the Stone Turtle", any of which starts from the trivial things, gives logical but unreasonable explanations, and presents them in the form of interesting dialogues, making children laugh
The first is from a blue sneaker left on the street, the second is why Dad snored, and the third is an association from a large rock.
These make me feel that as long as you are good at observing the details of life, they can be extended into a new story, as long as you observe carefully and are willing to imagine.
"The Mystery of Blue Sneakers" is especially suitable for parent-child reading, intimate interaction, games, adults reading, children listening, and then associating a variety of different scenes together. And this book is also the source, so that when we do not read picture books, we can also find other small things in life with children, and then expand their imagination and develop brain holes. For example, dabao and I have watched the Wang Wang team make great achievements, the super dog rescue team, maybe a meteorite falls from the sky, we can also let the snail become an anomaly, become a super snail, get rid of the original characteristics of its body.
A somewhat mysterious imaginative picture storybook
André Bouchard's picture books are painted in the same style, for example, "The Mystery of the Blue Sneakers". Any of the buildings and trees in the book are black and white lines, but people and animals, including shoes, are colored, and this dark-like style adds to the mystery of the picture book picture.
Although the painting style is a bit dark, the vivid colors of other animals and characters are in line with the mentality of the children who explore, and the author is consciously highlighting the rich details of the picture and cultivating the children's observation ability and imagination ability.
The owner of this sneaker was eaten by the dinosaur, and the dinosaur occupied the whole picture, which is in line with the child's imagination of the dinosaur, and it is also the image of the big dinosaur that we adults tell the child. And perhaps, it is the giant baby who accidentally fell on the street, which is also in line with the child's psychology. This shoe was not dropped by adults, but by the children of giants, which makes people think that children are really so cute. Another possibility is that the owner of the sneaker has a disease that can make the foot constantly inflate... This is probably the child's unique way of thinking, ridiculous, humorous and witty.
Reading the whole book, the children's divergent thinking, the spirit of exploring the truth of things, let us also follow along from different angles to observe and perceive the world, experience the joy of free imagination.
But in the end, the nature of the children came out again, and the mystery of the blue sneakers was not solved, but it became more and more difficult, so the children gave up and went home to eat.
But the story isn't over yet, and our writer is starting his brain again. At nightfall, the town falls silent, the "little detectives" all fall asleep, and a one-horned monster comes to Hugo Street...
I have to say that the author's brain hole is also bizarre, turning to the last page, we see the little monster put on his own blue sneakers on the UFO.
But the story still doesn't end there, because too many young readers are needed to continue to explore, and each of us readers can be little detectives, satisfying all our imaginations about the secrets of the blue sneakers.