Pumpkin Soup
In a pot of pumpkin soup, the friendship of the three witnesses, from the simple story of the loss of order, complaining to each other, looking for each other, and finally returning to the good.
After reading the picture book Superman, he felt that the social order of the children's world was actually no different from the social order that recognized the world. Everyone takes on each other's role in an intimate relationship.
However, one day, when the order or some relationship or role begins to change, it is also the beginning of the relationship that begins to have a rift. They went through some thoughts, regrets, rediscovering each other, and finally returned to their original intimate relationship.
Such interpersonal interactions take turns every day in the adult world. And the process experienced is actually the trace of everyone's growth.
"Pumpkin Soup" is to inject such a profound meaning into the life of a cat, a squirrel, and a duck, so that when children read, they become one of the small animals to feel the rich inner activity.
Many parents often ask when reading parents, what can children understand after reading picture books? In fact, picture books, more often, are to provide children with the world through the eyes of children, have their own order and rules, and do not necessarily have to read much or be able to say how much of the deep meaning of this picture book is covered in it to understand the picture book.
When the child sees the cover of the picture book, with the help of the illustrator's drawing technique, even if it is an illiterate child, he can read with the most primitive reading expectations.
There are two main lines in Pumpkin Soup, one of which is an instrument played by three small animals, just like a symphony orchestra, each responsible for a different instrument, ensemble to produce beautiful music. Another main line is that three small animals are responsible for pumpkin slices, stirring the soup, adding salt, and each person has a clear division of labor, and the pumpkin soup completed by cooperation has become the world's best soup.
However, all the beauty and silence are broken by a thought of the little duckling, and as the duck wants to master the squirrel-specific chef's spoon, the spoon falls to the ground with a "whoosh" sound, and the rhythm of the whole story becomes tense and fast.
It is this rhythm that makes the whole "Pumpkin Soup" from the beginning of the orderly and beautiful to a contradiction of intensification, so that the slow rhythm to fast pace of the change, so that the reading children's mood will also fluctuate, so that the interest in reading will be greatly increased. When parents read, they can ask more questions in these places, "What will happen next?" "I believe that children's wonderful imaginations will give you a lot of inadvertent surprises.
The process of the cat and the squirrel shedding tears of regret and deciding to find a good friend duck also pushed the story of "Pumpkin Soup" to a warm rhythm, and the whole rhythm slowly slowed down. Finally the ducks came back and began to stir the pumpkin soup, but the cat and the squirrel didn't say a word, even though the soup was all over the floor, and even the pot was burning, and they didn't speak.
At this time, you can add a question "Why did the duck just move the spoon at the beginning, and then it was ostracized and disliked by the partners, and now they all make pumpkin soup like this, why don't the partners say a word, and say that this is the best pumpkin soup in the world?" “
When the child is able to answer this question, it shows that she understands that true friendship is understanding and tolerance.
The whole story does not have half a bit of preaching, nor is there a trace of chicken soup embedded, it is an ordinary detail of life, under the tug of the two lines, it causes some contradictions, thus pulling the hearts of young readers up and down, perhaps this is the charm of picture books.
Please believe that reading picture books with your child a few more times is far better than the effect of your repeated nagging.
