A grain of sand hides a world, and a drop of water has an ocean. - (Chile) Neruda
In order to escape the pursuit of her vicious stepmother, Snow White fled to the forest, where she met seven kind dwarfs, and from then on, she hid in the forest away from the palace and lived with the dwarfs.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, probably fairy tale characters that have never been absent from everyone's childhood, Snow White is beautiful, gentle, and kind, and the dwarfs are industrious, brave, and capable. It was this story that introduced me to the dwarf. But that just opened the window of the villain country and gave me a little glimpse of the dwarf in front of the window.
By chance, I read a book called "Dwarfs" and finally understood that the world of dwarfs was so vast.
About the author
Will Hagen is a Dutch writer.
Ryan Putt-Urier is a Dutch illustrator.
The two of them co-authored the book "The Dwarf," which, when published in 1977, quickly swept the world and dominated the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year. The book describes the details of life such as food, clothing, shelter, home industry, medical treatment and other life of dwarfs as a classic European fantasy creature, the content is full of imagination and storytelling, and there is no lack of serious rigor of scientific observation, exquisite illustrations, lifelike, is the great fantasy masterpiece of the 20th century.
About this book
This is a large-scale hardcover book published by Beijing United Publishing Company. Translators Lin Liang and Pan Renmu carefully translated this exquisite book.
This book seems to open a door to the villain country for me, allowing me to understand everything related to the dwarf from all aspects.
An unknown parallel world
In the world of dwarfs, there seems to be little difference from the human world, open this book, you can follow the dwarf father, get up at sunset to eat breakfast, pick wild fruits, make honey wine, collect animal hair to make clothing, work in a blacksmith shop or glass factory, help a deer untangle the wire entangled in the horns... Look at the daily household chores of the dwarf family - he said that it is a night-time household affair, because the dwarf sleeps in the house during the day, almost never goes out, and their work and rest time is just the opposite of that of humans, but the human world has some of their worlds, as if it is an unknown world parallel to the human world.
Some of the humans who live on earth live in forests, some live on plains, and some live on the edge of deserts. The dwarfs also adapted to the environment according to the living environment and evolved into forest dwarfs, dune dwarfs, garden dwarfs, farm dwarfs, house dwarfs and Siberian dwarfs. According to the different environments, they evolved into different dwarf species with different physiques, languages, and living habits.
For safety reasons, dwarves rarely interact with humans, so their houses are built very secluded, trying to avoid human sight, and their schedules are also reversed from humans.
The most praiseworthy thing is their relationship with animals, the relationship between humans and animals was once very tense, in order to obtain more natural resources, many animal creatures are on the verge of extinction, but the relationship between dwarfs and nature is very harmonious. From birth, they planted a tree of life, and from then on, their whole life was closely related to this tree of life. They also fell in love, married, and had children, and because their lives were relatively long, they could live to more than 500 years old, so the dwarfs who were two or three hundred years old were only in their youth.
Because of their small size, the way they travel is more with the help of animals, and the animals are also willing to help the kind dwarfs to get help from the dwarfs.
Dwarfs also have pets, but their pets are crickets and juvenile mice. Crickets generally live in cages and guard the door at the door; mice live in woven baskets and are placed in the living room to accompany children.
Look, this is the world of the dwarfs, our human world has, their world also has, even things that are not in the human world, their world has long been owned.
The pictures and texts are exquisite, suitable for all ages
To say that this book is a door to the villain's country, it is not just a door.
It can satisfy the childlike heart of an adult, sew a beautiful fairy tale fabric for childhood regrets, and plug the shortcomings in the heart.
It can satisfy a child's curiosity and desire to explore the unknown world, and protect the innocent and kind child's heart.
Its imagination is very rich, its illustrations are very exquisite, and it can take adults and children on a journey to the country of villains. Especially suitable for parent-child reading.
This is not just an imaginative fairy tale, and as you read it, you will find that you have learned the attitudes, opinions, and positions of scientists to observe things. I read a science book, a research report.
Write at the end
At the end of the book "Dwarf", the author unceremoniously criticizes us humans from the perspective of "Dwarf" Harlowson, from the perspective of "Dwarf", and exemplifies the various deficiencies of human beings. For example, the emptiness of spiritual life, the neglect of genius, indulgence in slaughter, population pressure, environmental pollution, waste of resources, the destruction of the balance of nature, the obliteration of the right to exist of other animals, and the excessive obsession with material civilization, resulting in the dullness and delay of natural and sensitive functions, and so on.
Finally, we will think about how we, as advanced animals, can educate the next generation and teach them a model of living with the natural world, which is worth thinking deeply!
Therefore, it is not just a door to the villain country, but more of a door to the human heart.