Mr. Morris loves words, stories, and books. His life was a book he had written himself, page after page. Every morning, Morris opens the book and writes about his joys and sorrows, ideals and hopes.
This is the beginning of the story of the picture book "The Magic Flying Book".
Such quiet days were shattered by a sudden hurricane, and Morris's book was lost. The homeless Morris was walking alone on the road when she saw a cute girl flying in the air, holding a bunch of flying books in her hand. The friendly girl gave Morris one of her most cherished books and led morris to a large house full of books.
From then on, Morris began his days with books. Here, Morris often takes care of books, making their lives more orderly and making their lives more fulfilling.
Day after day, year after year, Morris grew old. He was about to leave the house that had accompanied him for half his life. The books were very reluctant to him, but also respected his decisions. So the books turned into a bouquet of flying books, clinging to Morris's hand and carrying him to the place where they first met.
There, Morris meets a little girl, lonely and confused. Morris smiled and gave the little girl the book he had written, and guided the little girl to the big house full of books.
From then on, the little girl continued Morris's work in the big house, and together with the books, spent a long and wonderful time...
This is the story told by the famous picture book "The Magic Flying Book".
The picture book "The Magic Flying Book" and the animated short film of the same name won many awards as soon as they were released:
84th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film
Warm House International Award Picture Book
National Parenting Publication Gold Award
Amazon Online Bookstore Picture Book of the Year
Number One on the New York Times children's bestseller list
The author of this many halo-filled picture books is William Joyce, a famous American writer, illustrator, animation director, character designer of the movie "Toy Story" and "Bugs Agents", three Emmy Awards, and co-directed the film "Guardian League" with DreamWorks.
In 2005, Joyce's hometown was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, and Joyce's writing was interrupted. When he went to the shelter to visit the homeless children, he witnessed the soothing of the children through reading, and his heart was deeply shaken. Meanwhile, in honor of the library's pioneering promotion, the late Bill Morris, Joyce created The Magic Flying Book, a story about books.
The story is simple but profound, conveying the magical power of books and reading between the lines.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 Each life is a unique story</h1>
Mr. Morris in the story, who originally lived a peaceful and beautiful life, wrote a book about the course of his own life. When a hurricane struck, life was ruined, books were destroyed, and the mark that could represent Morris's life was gone, leaving only the dim and dull Morris walking on the road, lonely and confused.
Each of us is like this, ordinary and small in the eyes of others. In fact, each of us has our own unique story, which makes our lives colorful and different.
After morris was with the books in the big house for a while, he shared the books with many visitors. He will share books that everyone loves, and he will also share some lonely little books, because he feels that everyone's story is important. We noticed that the guests who lined up to pick up the books were also gray and white before they came, but when they received the unique book shared by Morris, the color of life instantly became colorful, because each of their lives gave a different meaning.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Every soul longs for understanding and recognition</h1>
In the big house, while caring for the books, Morris found an "old book" that had fallen into disrepair, badly damaged, and even "critically ill.". Morris is like a doctor desperately trying to save the "old book", but it has never improved. At the critical moment, Morris tried to read the "old book" word by word, listening to the voice of the "old book", and the "old book" was miraculously resurrected.
This metaphor is very clever, it is conveying to people that books are like people, no matter how strong we appear on the outside, we are eager to be understood and recognized by others. The most difficult thing is not physical pain, but the bitterness that no one understands.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Each end is the inheritance of a new round of life</h1>
At the end of the story, the elderly Morris is leaving the big house that has accompanied him for half his life, and the books are very reluctant to him. So the books got together and flew into the air, taking Morris with them to the place where they had met years earlier.
At that place, Morris met a little girl, lonely and helpless. This scene is similar to Morris Hozen many years ago. Morris, like the girl back then, smiled and gave the little girl in front of her the book that had written her life, and guided her into the big house full of books.
Since then, the books in the big house have been taken care of by new people. Although Mr. Morris left us, he found his own inheritors, continued his work and mission, took good care of books, and shared books with more people...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summarize:</h1>
Zhu Yongxin once said in "My View of Reading" that the human spirit can flourish because of reading, and the weather is ever-changing. The significance of reading is that it builds up a world of spiritual life on the level of transcending worldly life, and if human beings living on the earth are only running for survival and cannot look up at the stars spiritually, the soul will gradually be covered by dust.
The importance of reading is self-evident, but children are often too busy with "scores" to forget to read, inadvertently missing out on a great opportunity to absorb nutrition. Joyce's The Magic Flying Book is dedicated to Bill Morris and Colin Sally who have dedicated their lives to books, and is also a tribute to all the great human beings who have dedicated their lives to the cause of promoting reading.
Just like Mr. Morris in "The Magic Flying Book", although he left us, he found a generation of inheritors, passed down the torch of reading from generation to generation, so that children can find strength in reading and write their own unique stories.