Today we are going to read a storybook, limited by space, I have divided the book into two parts to share.
Today is the first part of the > < Over and Under the Pond.
This is the front cover, the title is "Over and Under the Pond".
Story by Kate Messner
Art by Christopher Silas Neal
The title is "Over and Under the Pond".
Kate Messner wrote the story, she is the author.
Christopher Silas Neal drew the pictures, he is the artist.
Over the pond we slide, splashing through lily pads, sweeping through reeds.
Lily pads lotus leaves
Reeds
The water's a mirror, reflecting the sky.
Sunshine and clouds - then a shadow below.
"What's down there?" I ask.
"Under the pond?" Mom says.
"Under the pond is a whole hidden world of minnows and crayfish, turtles and bullfrogs.
We're paddling over them now."
Minnows small fish of the family Carp, also referred to as small fish, miscellaneous fish.
crayfish Freshwater lobster, commonly known as crayfish.
Bullfrogs bullfrog
Over the pond, we skim past tall rushes.
Whirligig beetles loop and twirl - skaters on a warm summer surface.
Under the pond, minnows dart through waving forests of grass, while a brook trout lurks, ready to lunge.
Whirligig beetles soy worms, drum worms
Brook trout brook salmon, or spotted salmon, a type of red-spotted salmon
lurks (lurk) lurks
Lunge Sprint
Over the pond, we lift and dip and pull past a row of painted turtles on a waterlogged tree.
One - two - three - they slip off and away -
splash - gurgle - sploosh! - under the pond.
Waterlogged (wood, etc.) soaked, water-soaked
Over the pond, cattails rustle and shush in the wind. Listen close ... cuck-la-ree!
Red-winged blackbirds race by. One has grass for her nest.
Under the pond, a caddisfly larva builds a home of her own - a secret shelter of pebbles and sand.
Cattails cattails (widely distributed in swampy areas, with long banded leaves and dense, fine round flowers and fruits)
Red-winged blackbirds Red-winged blackbirds, or red-winged crows
Caddisfly larva larva, stone moth larvae
Shelter shelter
Pebbles (pebble) pebbles
Over the pond, the shadows of trees lean out from the shore. We coast under a low-hanging branch.
A moose looks up with a mouthful of water lilies. We're interrupted his lunch.
Low-hanging low-hanging
moose elk, moose
Water lilies
Under the pond, beavers dive deep. They pump with powerful tails and rise to the surface with delectable roots from the mud.
Beavers beavers (I think many children should be familiar with Beva nursery rhymes, beva is based on beavers, beva is also a transliteration of beaver.) ）
Over the pond, the wind gives us a push and stirs the light-dappled leaves on shore.
There on a branch, a new goldfinch teeters, finally ready to fly.
Under the pond, tadpoles are changing, learning to hop.
They're losing tails, growing legs, growing up.
light-dappled mottled
Goldfinch Goldfinch
teeters (teeter) waddle, shake, stand unsteadily
Tadpoles tadpoles