If children in the first and second grades like "Mi Xiao Circle" and other campus novels, then I recommend saying goodbye to this kind of shallow reading before the age of 9, and reading more classic children's literature to excessive deep reading.
Today I would like to share with you a set of classic, readable and strong children's literature works.
Remember the article I shared before that the BBC named the 11 greatest children's books in 100 years? At number one is it, "Charlotte's Web," written by E. Miller. B. White.
In 10 films adapted from classic children's literature, there are also figures:
Because I liked this book too much, when I read xiaoku's master masterpieces two months ago, I also specially selected "E · B. White's Trilogy" as a giveaway.
Suitable for children aged 8+ reading
It comes from Shanghai Translation Publishing House, the largest comprehensive professional translation publishing house in China.
There is a children's book brand called "Charlotte Book House" under this club, which contains a lot of children's literature that I like, such as the children's literature recommended before | "One Day I'll Grow Up"
And in this series, the most famous is E · The translator of B. White's trilogy is also the famous children's literature translator and writer Mr. Ren Rongrong.
Soft hardcover, simple and generous on the grade, more than 200 pages of thickness flat unfolded to no problem.
The design of the cover, ring lining and side of the side is simply stunning, so beautiful!
White was the most prominent Essayist and Critic of the Twentieth Century America, "with a cold, clear, pungent and humorous style." ”
He has achieved outstanding achievements in prose creation and other aspects, and has won many awards during his lifetime:
In 1971, he was awarded the National Medal of Literature by the United States;
In 1973, he was elected one of the 50 permanent members of the American Academy of Letters and Arts;
In 1978, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Special Literature and Art.
In addition to his lifelong favorite essays, White's three meticulously crafted works of children's literature are childhood classics that have influenced generations. Just like Charlotte's net, it is a fairy tale that proudly ranks first in the "Ten Greatest Children's Literature Masterpieces in America"! First published in 1952, it has been popular in the world for nearly 70 years, with a circulation of tens of millions of copies, which can be said to be a world famous book comparable to "The Little Prince".
Unfortunately, I turned over his book, and the public number circle was particularly little introduced, which felt really a pity. Today I'm going to plant grass for them, and I've also provided a link to the welfare price.
Charlotte's Web
The girl Fern's pigsty welcomed a litter of piglets, one of which was born thin and small, and Dad was ready to end his life early.
The kind-hearted Finn rescued the piglet from his father's axe, named it Wilbur, and took good care of it.
A sudden news shattered the calm of the barn: Wilbur's future fate was to become bacon ham.
As a pig, the grief-stricken and desperate Wilbur seems to be able to accept the fate of being slaughtered.
Just then, a clear voice came from the darkness, and a seemingly small spider named Charlotte appeared, and it said to Wilbur, "I will save you." ”
So, Charlotte used her own silk to weave a network text on the pig pen that was regarded as a miracle by humans, and completely reversed Wilbur's fate, and finally let it win special awards and a peaceful future in the market competition.
But at this time, the fate of the spider Charlotte came to an end.
Wilbur managed to bring back the egg sacks that Charlotte had laid at the last moment of her life, and by the following spring, Charlotte's children burst out one by one and rode away in the wind.
But there are still three baby spiders willing to stay with Wilbur and continue their mother's friendship with Wilbur.
At first, I read it, I thought it was just a fairy tale for children, but I read it, wonderful!
The story is fascinating, humorous, smooth, childlike, and I laugh out loud from time to time while watching it, especially at the end of the book, which really moves me to cry.
The famous American writer Eudora Verti said in a book review of the New York Times: This is a book about friendship, but also a book about love and protection, adventure and miracles, life and death, trust and betrayal, joy and pain, it is almost a perfect, incredible masterpiece. ”
"Elf Mouse Brother"
Little's second child, Stewart, was born only two feet tall and looked like a little mouse.
This little rat brother is kind and clever, and there is no one in the family who does not like it except for the cat named "Wild Jasmine".
Stewart's best friend is the little bird Margallo who lives in their house, in order to make the beautiful Margallo not be bullied by "wild jasmine", the rat brother really plucked up enough courage and used his brain.
However, spring came, and Margalo flew back to the north without saying goodbye, which made Stewart nervous.
He vowed to get Margallo back, so he drove a toy car that would be invisible and was on the road.
Along the way, there were many dangerous things, the little brother's car was broken, the boat was in the water, but the journey to find Magallo continued, he looked at the endless open land in front of him, the road seemed long, but the sky was bright, and he always felt that he was walking in the right direction.
The Trumpet-Blowing Swan
Louis is a male swan born to be silent. To express his thoughts, Louis learned to write on stone slabs.
But the other swans couldn't read, and Louis still couldn't tell his heart to his beloved female swan.
To help Louis, Papa Swan steals the trumpet from the musical instrument shop.
This became The Knot in Louis's heart, and it broke into the human world alone.
With the help of the boy Sam, who learned to write on stone slabs, then worked in many places, and accumulated a considerable amount of savings by playing trumpets, and after compensating the owner of the instrument shop, Louis did not hesitate to choose to return to nature.
It blew out the song from the trumpet, and the music not only touched Serena, but also won people's respect and appreciation.
The path of life is getting wider and wider in front of Louis's eyes.
White's narration is introverted and calm, pouring out like a clear stream, and at the same time he uses many images and metaphors, and the words flash with deep thinking and deep human concern, which is worth reading.
1 Search for the truth of life
Think about the attitude and meaning of life
Take "Charlotte's Web", for example, it is not just a simple children's literature, it tells life and death, love and protection, joy and pain so thoroughly, I believe that everyone will have a new understanding of life after reading it.
I don't know how many people were touched by the conversation with Wilbur before Charlotte died, but I was already crying at the end of the reading:
"Why are you doing all this for me?" It asked, "I don't deserve it, I haven't done anything for you." ”
"You've always been my friend," replied Charlotte, "and this is a remarkable thing in itself." I'm making a net for you because I like you. Besides, what is life all about? We are born, we live for a while, we die. It makes no sense for a spider to be busy all its life catching and eating flies, and by helping you, perhaps it can elevate the value of my life a little. Everyone knows that people should do something meaningful in life. ”
The animals on the farm had long been accustomed to the fate of a pig, so when Wilbur learned of the direction of his fate and cried that he did not want to die, he chose to treat it coldly.
Or like a greedy mouse, although it occasionally helps in the process of reversing Wilbur's fate, but always wants to take the opportunity to knock a stroke.
Only Charlotte helps Wilbur unreservedly, because she knows that life will one day come to an end, but love can pass on through the barriers of time and space.
It hopes to do something "meaningful", so it dares to break through the immutable cycle of life and try a new way of living.
If it were not for Wilbur's touch in his heart, Charlotte would not have woven a unique net, and if it were not for Charlotte, Wilbur would never have shone and become an "ace pig". In a sense, they accomplish each other.
White's reflections and inquiries into the meaning of life run through the other two works in the series.
These protagonists are not perfect, on the contrary, they are all weak or flawed, and at the beginning of life, they indicate that they are destined to experience more ups and downs and twists than their companions.
Wilbur was a pig with a foothold, and was born thin and small and almost killed;
Stewart was born short and resembled a mouse, with many inconveniences in his movements;
Louis's flaws are obvious, he does not blow the loud voice of the trumpet swan, which the group is proud of, and although there is no difficulty in foraging, swimming, and flying, a dumb swan is bound to suffer setbacks on the courtship.
In The Swan Who Blew the Trumpet, Louis's father, after confirming that his son was indeed unable to make a sound, exhorted him this way:
"Don't have an abnormal sadness, Louis, the swan must be happy and not sad, to be graceful and not clumsy, to be brave and not timid, and you have to remember that there are many young people in the world who have obstacles to overcome. You obviously have a deficit in speaking. I'm sure you'll get over it in time..."
His father's words gave Louis the strength to live alone, after which Louis overcame his physical defects, learned to write and blow trumpets, and used the money earned from blowing trumpets to pay off the trumpets that his father stole for him.
The zoo director promises that Louis and her beloved swan Serena can stay here forever to have children and breed, at the cost of cutting off the feathers.
But this was by no means the comfortable life That Louis wanted, and in his heart there was something more important than that—freedom.
In "Elf Mouse Brother", Stewart could have lived his life under the protection of his relatives, after all, his weak figure was too vulnerable in front of the world, but the brave Rat Brother embarked on an adventure alone, persistently exploring his own life path.
Dare to step out of the rules, with love, selfless dedication, yearning for freedom... These are the most precious things in the intergenerational inheritance of human beings from generation to generation, destined to be brilliant and eternal.
2 Focus on man and nature
Touch all things with the light of humanity
White loves animals and is obsessed with simple, unpretentious rural life, and he completes most of his work on a farm in North Brooklyn, Maine.
He always took care of the animals on the farm, and in White's eyes, everything had an equal right to live, and there was no distinction between high and low.
The inspiration for the story of Wilbur the Pig came from the fact that one day White carried pig food to the pig on the way to feed the pig, thinking that like other pigs, the piglets he raised were doomed to die, and the sad emotions shrouded White's heart, so he began to think about saving the fate of the pig.
In Charlotte's Web, the girl Fern, on behalf of White, catches up with Mr. Aralbour, who is carrying an axe, and saves Wilbur, a skinny pigty, who was newborn from her father.
She tearfully complained that it was unfair to kill it only because it was smaller than other pigs! If I had been born very small, would you have killed me too?
Later, under the careful care of Fern, Wilbur regained the brilliance of life, which led to the story behind.
In "The Swan Who Blew the Trumpet", the swan couple almost died in the fox's mouth while incubating the egg, but fortunately the boy Sam shot in time and beat the fox away with a branch, otherwise Louis's story would have ended before it began.
Later, Louis learned to write on the slate, and although he traveled between summer camps, boat trips, nightclubs, and zoos, he was helped by well-wishers.
This also allows it to explore itself boldly and fearlessly, break through the inconvenience caused by physical defects, and finally shine.
Caring for animals is the theme of White's creation, and White can't bear to let his beloved protagonists suffer misfortune in the fantasy world, so he uses a gentle pen to protect them all the way to find their own lives in the story.
3 The emotions are sincere and full
The language is poetic and light
Reading White's words, you can feel the deep affection that permeates the lines. Those family, friendship, and love that shimmer brightly warm people's hearts, even if they are depressed and depressed, they will regain their enthusiasm for life.
In "Little Brother Mouse", as a human, Stewart's appearance is undoubtedly weird, but his family loves him deeply and does not diminish.
On the night stew stewed for the adventure of leaving home, he climbed onto his mother's dresser and pulled a strand of her hair from Mrs. Little's comb, which he rolled neatly and placed in a handkerchief with other things.
"Goodbye, beautiful home." He said softly, "I don't know if I'll ever see you again." ”
Stewart is not too much to say, but his gratitude and affection for his family are self-evident.
In Charlotte's Web, for Wilbur, Charlotte is its spiritual dependence, appearing in its loneliest panic to give it hope of survival.
Wilbur trusted Charlotte with all his heart, and the feelings between them were like friends and mother and son.
When Charlotte tried to weave the last net and successfully saved Wilbur's life, her life also came to an end.
Upon learning of Charlotte's death, Wilbur gasped and begged the rat to bite the egg bag that Charlotte had laid last night and bring it back to the farm, the last thing it could do for Charlotte.
As Wilbur was thrust into the crate, it looked up at Charlotte and winked at it, the only way it could say goodbye to Charlotte.
And Charlotte also summoned up all her strength to wave one of Wilbur's front legs. It knows that its children are safe.
Goodbye, my friend, thank you for giving life a new meaning!
White is good at creating warm and moving scenes, silent, not sculpted, can bring a strong emotional shock to people's hearts.
His language is light and clear, like a spring breeze, which makes people intoxicated.
He described spring this way:
It's spring. Frogs wake up from their long slumbers. The turtle awoke again after a nap. The golden chipmunk felt the gentle warm air blowing through the trees, as in that spring, when Louis's father and mother came to the pond to make nests and have children.
A spider web can also be so beautiful:
On a foggy morning, Charlotte's net was truly a beautiful thing. Each filament was dotted with dozens of small beads of water this morning. The net shimmered in the sunlight, forming a mysterious and lovely pattern, like a slender veil...
A bird's self-introduction is also so wonderful and poetic:
"My name is Margallo," said the little bird softly in a singing voice, "I come from a field that used to be full of tall wheat, I come from a pasture full of thick ferns and thistles, I come from a valley full of embroidered velvet, and I love to whistle. ”
Mr. Ren Rongrong retained White's simple and smooth writing style to the greatest extent, while giving it an elegant and calm aesthetic atmosphere.
White died in 1985 at the age of 86. In a memorial service to White in The Nation Weekly, the author quoted the last sentence of White's Charlotte's Web as the epilogue of his essay: "Such a character is not always encountered: both a loyal friend and a good writer. ”
Indeed, for those who read stories, White was not only a writer, but also a friend who could talk to his heart.
In the soothing atmosphere of storytelling, the words that represent the eternal truth of mankind shine brightly and arouse people's reverie.
Let's meet White in the story, meet Charlotte, Wilbur, Stewart, Louis... Meet love, freedom, bravery, perseverance...
Meet innocent childhood, but also meet the bright and hopeful future!
Dan's mother shattered her thoughts
Finally introduced this set of books, I felt that I had completed a small task. I have found that at present, unless I encounter a new book that makes me particularly excited, I will consider opening a group, and I am more and more addicted to digging more classic word-of-mouth old books. Although the profit is small, I share very freely and confidently.
I also want to introduce each set of treasure books well, not only to give back to my own love for books, but also to respect knowledge and authors.
Classic children's literature like "Charlotte's Web", which I really like for 10 years, has been tested by time and readers, and contains life, love and friendship. Recommended to children, I believe that it can enrich their spirit, so that they can also learn to weave the most beautiful word in the world on the road of life - love.