Author: Volume Text/Figure
Publisher: New Century Press
Producer: Pu Pu Lan Picture Book Museum
Publication year: 2020-6
The book "Once Upon a Time There Was a Mooncake Village" is wonderful and festive, and a large moon hangs high in the sky. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the villagers meet on this beautiful night to enjoy the moon.
The pastry's soft cotton specialty and the traditional rounded appearance of mooncakes make these little ones naturally pleasing. The creators have given them a cute temperament in the appearance and styling, some wearing straw hats and headbands, some holding fans, wearing glasses, and carrying backpacks... Combined with flexible and diverse, special costumes and props, these mooncake village "villagers" are enough to be cute enough.
【Introduction to Picture Books】
This book is little known, is a treasure book waiting to be excavated, from the famous "Pu Pu Lan Picture Book Museum," I was accidentally brushed on the short video platform, I watched the video repeatedly, but it was not yet satisfied, so I began to search the whole network for picture book related audio/video/PPT...
The answer: very little information
Such a good picture book deserves everyone's attention, so I came~
Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes gathered, the moon is gone, who is the thief? This is a suspenseful reasoning, humorous picture book story, but it is easy for young children to understand, the book is story-based, expressive, suitable for kindergarten rehearsal picture book drama use.
【Picture Book Interpretation and Ring Lining】
On the ring lining are the six protagonists of the picture book - six mooncake villagers, they are Jing's self-made red, Hong Kong-style ice skin flowing heart, Jing Ti pulp Wuren, Su's puff pastry fresh meat, Taiwanese egg yolk pastry, Cantonese lotus paste double yellow, look at the name can know that they are the top mooncakes from all over China.
These six kinds of mooncakes are both traditional and new, both salty and sweet, both round and special-shaped, fully taking into account the characteristics of the north and south mooncakes, with symbolism and richness.
【Copyright Page・Author Introduction】
【Author】 Chuan Er, real name Wang Jing, Doctor of Literature, is currently a teacher at the School of Animation and Digital Art of communication university of China, where he teaches related courses such as picture book appreciation, picture book creation, and illustration design.
【Works】 "Dumplings and Tangyuan" (Ren Jingjing, pictured) won the finalist award of the first "Zhang Leping Picture Book Award" and the "2018 Laurel Children's Book (Kindergarten Enlightenment Category)" award. 《Little Zongzi, Little Zongzi》
Without further ado, let's follow the mooncake detective to crack "The moon is gone!" " mystery case.
【Picture Book Feature Film Start】
Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the villagers of Mooncake Village agree to go to the top of the mountain to admire the moon.
"Didi Baba" moon bus has arrived at the station, please go to the moon to enjoy the moon cake quickly get on the bus.
The red mooncake was the first to rush out with the baggage, but when he was ready to take the moon bus, he found that "the moon is gone", he shouted so, all the mooncakes rushed out, and the fuse of the story was ignited!
【Observation and discovery of clues】
When the moon was admired in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon was gone, which was a very serious question, and the mooncake detectives were freshly baked and began to look around for the moon, but they couldn't find it anywhere.
Think about it, grasp every little detail, and vow to find the suspect who stole the moon. Who stole the mooncake?
At this time, Zi Lai Hong found that the corner of the mouth of the ice skin mooncake had suspicious yellow marks.
【Suspect Cake: Durian Ice Skin MoonCake】
Durian ice skin mooncake quickly proved its innocence and spit out the durian flowing heart in her stomach.
The text of the page that begins here is simplified, and the picture image depicts the differences and types.
【Suspect Cake: Wu Ren Moon Cake】
Got rid of the suspect durian ice skin mooncake, and began to suspect the bulging mouth of the five-ren mooncake, the five-kernel mooncake spit out walnut kernels, peanut kernels, pine nut kernels, melon seeds, sesame kernels, we are the red all over the country' north and south of the Wuren Tiantuan!
The question of "whether Wuren mooncakes are delicious or not" will be disputed every year, such as: strange taste, rock sugar teeth, green silk... But in ancient times, Wuren mooncakes were all said by Su Dongpo to be delicious, and turnip greens had their own love and did not evaluate.
【Suspect Cake: Su-style puff pastry fresh meat】
This time it was the turn of the Su-style puff pastry fresh meatloaf, opened his mouth to spit out the filling, only to see the meatballs lined up and walked forward in turn, "I am meatballs, I am a big meatball, I am a big meatball!" "It's not a puff pastry, so who will eat the moon?"
"Not me, not me." The short sentence pattern describes the nervousness of being suspected and the urgency of urgently proving innocence. "Ah..." The word is particularly laughable with the exaggerated "spitting" behavior. The funny caption of each page is like a finishing touch, so that the image of the small mooncake in the book is vividly displayed in front of the eyes.
【Suspect Cake: Egg Yolk Crisp and Lotus Moon Cake】
As the mooncakes spit out the filling one by one, to prove that they did not steal the moon. The final suspect locked, is it lotus paste double yellow mooncake and egg yolk puff pastry?
Egg yolk crisp quickly explained, "Make a mistake! I'm just here to visit the door," this egg yolk crisp and lotus paste double yellow mooncake frightened and quickly opened his mouth, with a "ah ~" sound, what is it? The yellow is round and slippery, and looks too similar to the moon.
[Has the truth come out?] 】
Like a detective captain, Shehong took a magnifying glass and looked closely, raised doubts, and said, "How does it look a bit like..." Everyone shouted in unison: "Moon!! "It was you who stole the moon, it was you who stole the moon, and just then the moon finally appeared, and it turned out that the naughty clouds "stole" the moon.
When watching the self-testimonial performance of the "villagers" with great interest, the children constantly guessed from the fruit filling marks at the corners of their mouths, the bulging expression of their mouths, the frightened heart and the "content" confided by each "villager", and after five times of anticipation but failing again and again, they finally found the "thief" who stole the moon, just at this time, the laughter in the sky reversed the ending, revealing the real "stealing" person, and pushing the comedy atmosphere of the story and the happiness of children's puzzle solving to the climax!
Hop on the moon bus and enjoy the moon together
Finding the moon, the mooncake villagers boarded the moon bus and came to the top of the mountain to admire the moon. This is a very large spread, the moon bus is also three-dimensional, the visual impact is very strong, the picture is very beautiful ~ the moon viewing party can finally begin, and the whole story has come to a successful end.
【Happy Ending, Moon Viewing】
After the end of the main text, the author also drew a very interesting ending: the sun has risen, the Dian-style and tide-style mooncakes are still running wild in pickup trucks, missing the moon viewing party, and it turns out that they are lost. Their two simple conversations not only explain the reason for getting lost, but also contain the idiom story of the opposite direction.
【Some small details in the picture book】
1, the egg yolk puff pastry painting is reversed. Because the egg yolk puff pastry likes to stand upside down, when it is handstand, that's what we see;
2. When torturing the puff pastry fresh meatloaf, I was scared out of the puff pastry;
3. Plot hints of the cover cloud covering the moon;
4. The front ring lining six colored notes corresponds to the roof of the six-colored mooncake and the six colored houses;
5, the order of the color note is the order of the role appearance, like the cast list;
6. The front ring is lined with colored ribbons at the diagonal, including mid-autumn elements such as clouds, moons, rabbits, osmanthus flowers, and traditional ornaments such as water cloud patterns, herringbone patterns, and cloud thunder patterns;
7. When the moon appears in the second half of the story, it uses longitudinal pictures and three-dimensional large pages, breaking the previous reading inertia, resulting in a strong visual impact, full of beauty and attractiveness.
8, the lost Dian-style tide mooncake is still in a hurry, as if the small Easter egg at the end of the movie, sending readers an unexpected ending dessert.
9. The rear ring lining presents the scene after the moon viewing: the moon is low, the expression is quiet, and even the six village houses have fallen asleep
10, the bus leaving in the lower left corner seems to be sighing: see you next year!
Then you may wish to sing a song of "Mooncake Village Song" with your children and fall asleep.
【Reading Suggestions】
Take this as an entry point to talk to the children about the moon and popularize some common sense about the moon.
1. Does the moon glow?
2) Why is the moon sometimes like a boat and sometimes like a pie?
3. Is there something on the moon, is there really Chang'e?
4. When did humans land on the moon?
5. Go with your child to observe the changes in the moon
6. Take pictures or hand-drawn to record the morphological changes of the entire moon
A group of cute little mooncakes, a hilarious story, especially suitable for parents and children to read. In parent-child reading, with the development of the plot with the body movements and image language, it will induce greater interest in children.