Hello Mom! Hello baby! 》
[Han] Jin Xinxing text/figure Translated by Zhao Ming'ai
Children's and Children's Press
"Mom, where did I come from?"
"You came out of your mother's belly."
"How am I doing in my mother's belly?"
"You're in your mother's belly..."
The child's curious questions will always remind the mother of those unforgettable days, and the scene seems to be in front of her. Korean writer Kim Nova turned the october of pregnancy and the birth of life into a beautiful and warm story, a special book.
The book is designed to be in the form of pages turned back and forth, and you can look at it from this side or that side first, and we meet in the middle anyway. Here's "Hello Mommy!" in the tone of a baby. "Hello, Baby!" unfolds in the tone of a mother. 》。 While the mother is preparing for the birth of the baby, the baby is also preparing to welcome the mother and go to our world. They walked in opposite directions, invariably doing the same action, with the same feelings, as if they had a sharp mind, and all the details could be found in each other's stories, giving people a feeling of being the way they were.
"I live on a small island that is only three steps in size." The story begins with the baby's self-narration, the blue sea, the beautiful whales, the yellow clouds, the lush green forest, the flowers rush to open, the baby sits on the petals and flies with the wind... At this moment, you seem to have read a light fairy tale, full of dreams.
Turning to the other side, you see the figure of reality, which describes the whole process of mothers conceiving babies, from the initial worry and fear to the courage to face it. At this point, we find an interesting correspondence. When the baby jumps into the blue sea, it turns out that the mother is experiencing morning sickness, and the feeling of morning sickness makes the mother like sailing in the sea; when the baby rides on the whale and tastes a mouthful of vanilla-flavored ice cream, it turns out that the mother also wants to eat ice cream in the middle of the night, and her favorite is also the vanilla flavor; when the baby jumps on the cloud and takes a nap, the mother also lies on the soft quilt like a cloud and takes a nap; when the baby is a little sad, the mother can't help but cry, and their sadness and joy are almost synchronized...
Taking imagination and realism as parallel wings is the unique way of writing this book, which not only makes us feel the real reality, but also makes us look forward to the romantic imagination. In particular, the fairy tale writing makes the whole book exceptionally light, and thus has a poetry that is beyond reality. This is exactly how children's literature opens up, with imaginative ideas to show the miracle of life, the scene of the fateful encounter and the heart.commencing.
When I saw that the mother and baby finally pounced on each other and hugged each other tightly, the tears flowed involuntarily. What a joy to go straight to each other without any burden and open your heart to each other! Love should look like this.
This is a book written for mom
Because every mother has experienced the process of conceiving and having children, reading once again allows us to relive that unforgettable experience and once again experience the hardships and difficulties of motherhood.
It's more of a book for kids
Because every child will ask "who I am" and "where I came from", doubts and confirmations about themselves will always accompany them. So this is a puzzle-solving book about the birth and birth of life.
Valuablely, the whole book is full of maternal love, "Hey, my baby! Your smile is exactly as I imagined. When the mother tells the baby this, the baby's heart is sown with a seed of happiness, which will grow into a tree to shade the child's life.
——Text excerpt from "The Happiness of the First Encounter" Tang Bing
Author: Kim Saebyul
Graduated from the Department of Business Administration, Korea University, he has been working as a copywriter in an advertising agency for more than ten years. He published the essay collection "Growing Up to Be a Mother", and then began to write picture books. Along the way, he collected a lot of stories and emotions and eventually became a picture book writer.
Regarding the book, the author said: "The first picture book that will give hugs to me, the first reader who will give thanks to me, the first baby who will give love to me – Ajin, Lucie the kitten and my husband Juyoon and the second treasure in my belly." ”
Source: Children's and Children's Publishing House
Editor: Xu Nuo