Lately, Uncle Monkey's house has always been inexplicably unable to find things, such as a bunch of keys, a bottle of eye drops, a small jar of cool oil... Our family is not a big place, only three people, these things have not been taken out, how can we not find it? Later, we found out that it might have something to do with sakuragi, the mischievous kitten of our family.
Sakuragi is a one-year-old flower cat, and he has an idea in his mind that "all the little things on the ground are my toys", and he often runs back and forth with the bones of tennis balls and hand paper tubes on the ground. Later, Sakuragi began to actively expand the scope of his toys, pulling all kinds of small things we put on the table and on the cabinet to the ground with small paws, and then it became his, and the bones were under the bed or under the sofa, and we couldn't find them. Because of Sakuragi's naughtiness, as long as something in our family is missing, we will first shout: "Sakuragi, where are you going to play?" "Even the scissors in the kitchen, the remote control for the TV, our phones and chargers, the books... These are not things that cats can hide at all, and we also give Sakuragi a "back pot".
However, there are still some things that may be no wonder about the little flower cat, my family did not have a cat before it appeared, i guess your family often appeared some strange things. For example: socks are changed and washed several times, there will be a single one that is not worthy of the right child, we can't throw the socks outside; the clothes that we often wore last summer and liked very much, how to find them this summer can't be found; every time before going out, we always have to look for our "silly car keys"; before the start of school, there are always one or two holiday homework that have been written down, that is, I can't find it... If it weren't for the fact that we were too stupid ourselves, there must have been some mysterious force that made a mess of our home.
Little readers, if your mom and dad always criticize you for losing things, your hair is too sore, your feet are too smelly, your arms and legs are too dirty, and you often get some trauma, you must show them this book. Big readers, if you will also blame yourself and collapse because you can't find things inexplicably, how to clean up your home will quickly become dirty and messy, you must also read this book. That's right, it's the Book of Funny Bugs from the famous American writer, illustrator, and animation director William Joyce.
Joyce is probably one of the most child-savvy painters and filmmakers, especially the little boys who are imaginative and lively by nature, but always cause trouble for adults (because he himself was such a guy when he was a child). He worked as an artist for the films "Toy Story" and "Robots", and as a screenwriter or director for the films "The Magic Flying Book", "Bug Agents", "Meet the Robinsons", and always hit the excitement of children with his eclectic imagination.
In this Book of Funny Bugs, Joyce unleashes our imaginations with young readers. Joyce, borrowing Dr. Zopper's book, tells us that the culprits that cause a mess in our lives are not cute little children who are sloppy, careless, sloppy, sloppy, reckless, but have a kind of prank-obsessed little creatures called "funny bugs".
Next, in the form of questions and answers, the book gives us a list of several "funny bugs" and the way they make trouble. Why do children suddenly find homework that they have already done when they get to school? It is because there is a kind of "homework gluttony worm", they absorb knowledge by eating homework, and even exist in the computer homework, there are also "computer sucking worms" will come to steal food. Why can't we always find the TV remote? It's not that we put it around, but there's a kind of "remote control handler" that sneaks away the remote control and puts it in a place that's actually right under your nose — like under a sofa cushion.
Why do we always find that the rolls of paper have been sucked out when we are squatting in the pit, but no one admits that we have used it ourselves? Because humans never run out of toilet paper, humans think about others. But there is a kind of "paper roll worm" that will secretly tear off the toilet paper and throw it into the toilet. Why don't socks always match? Because there is a sock worm that only steals one sock at a time, because it only counts to 1. As we flipped through the book, we suddenly found that there was also a kind of "funny worm" in the book, and they were stealing the strokes of the Chinese words of the book one by one!
Dr. Zoper's book is finished, and Joyce's story is over, but the imagination space left for young readers has just begun. Since there are so many kinds of funny bugs, can children shirk the responsibility to the bugs every time they are criticized by adults? Imaginative children will almost certainly extend Dr. Zopper's absurd "research" - forget the homework because there are "forgetting worms", the texts cannot be memorized because there are "memory crushing bugs", toys are always scattered, because there are "sneaky toy bugs", school uniforms are stained with ink because there are "inkjet bugs"...
Some parents may want to jump out and object: Shouldn't we cultivate good habits in our children? How can picture books excuse and shirk responsibility for children's sloppy behavior? Is such a picture book a "big poisonous weed"?
Remember the rules of brain development that Uncle Monkey talked to everyone about before? It is the latest thing about the development of the prefrontal cortex, friends who have forgotten, you can review my previous post - "Q: Why doesn't the baby pay attention?" A: That's right! 》。 Because the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for planning, controlling, and inhibiting excitement, develops much later than the posterior occipital cortex responsible for vision and the parietal cortex responsible for observing the world, we will find such a situation - when children's imaginations are bursting, their ability to pack things, organize things, and keep themselves tidy is not online at all! At this time, we choose to be a Virgo parent, nagging him over and over again, following him and tidying him up? Or choose to be a Leo's happy playmate and accompany him to let his imagination fly? There is no doubt that Joyce, a writer who understands children, suggests that we choose the latter.
Of course, some adults still encounter problems like children in their lives, things are littered around, they can't always keep tidy, and they forget important things from time to time... We can understand that the "funny worm" family must be particularly fond of him, and as to whether he is like the children, maintaining a strong imagination, it is not known.
The Book of Funny Bugs, written and illustrated by William Joyce, translated by Wang Zhigeng, published by Yutian Culture in March 2021.